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State |
Status/Date |
Level |
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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| Scheduling/School Calendar--Year Round |
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| School Climate/Culture |
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| School Safety |
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| School Safety--Bullying Prevention/Conflict Resolution |
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| School Safety--Code of Conduct |
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| School Safety--Corporal Punishment |
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| School Safety--Disaster/Emergency Preparedness |
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| School Safety--Expulsion/Suspension |
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| School Safety--No Child Left Behind--Safe Schools |
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| School Safety--Sexual Harassment and Assault |
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| School Safety--Special Education |
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| School Safety--Uniforms/Dress Codes |
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 | School/District Structure/Operations |
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| AR | Adopted 09/2012 | P-12 | Provides that any isolated school within a resulting or receiving district shall remain open unless the school board of directors of the resulting or receiving district adopts a motion to close the isolated school or parts thereof. Outlines the procedures a school board of directors must follow to close an isolated school.
http://170.94.37.152/REGS/005.01.12-010F-13135.pdf
Title: AR ADC 005.01.8-1.00 to AR ADC 005.01.8-5.00
Source: http://www.sos.arkansas.gov/rules_and_regs/index.php
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| CA | Signed into law 09/2012 | P-12 | From bill summary: For contracts awarded on and after January 1, 2014, and until January 1, 2019, requires the governing board of the district, except for school districts with an average daily attendance of less than 2,500, for certain public projects, to use procedures, which require a standardized questionnaire and financial statement to be verified under oath, for bidding applicable to public entities. Requires the questionnaire and uniform system of rating bidders to cover, at a minimum, the issues covered by the standardized questionnaire and model guidelines for rating bidders developed by the department of industrial relations. Provides that the questionnaire and uniform system of rating bidders do not preclude the district governing board from prequalifying or disqualifying a subcontractor. Provides that bidders include the general contractor and, if utilized, all electrical, mechanical, and plumbing subcontractors. Authorizes the district board to establish a process for prequalifying prospective bidders on a quarterly or annual basis. Requires the director of industrial relations, on or before January 1, 2018, to submit a report to the legislature evaluating whether labor violations have decreased, and to recommend improvements to the system for prequalifying contractors and subcontractors on district projects. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/11-12/bill/asm/ab_1551-1600/ab_1565_bill_20120930_chaptered.pdf
Title: A.B. 1565
Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov
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| AR | Adopted 07/2012 | pre-K-12 | Authorizes the State Board of Education (BOE) to establish a statewide system of not more than fifteen multicounty education service cooperatives of school districts to be intermediate service units in the state's elementary and secondary education system and as such shall be eligible to receive and expend funds from state and federal governments, school districts, and other public or private sources.
Outlines rules surrounding membership including: each education service cooperative shall be governed by a board of directors consisting of one representative appointed by each school district board of directors within the boundary of the education service cooperative.
Outlines responsibilities of the board of directors of each established education service cooperative including: receipt and expenditure of funds needed to provide programs and services in the area and implementation of policies established by the state board for the operation of education service cooperatives.
Directs the BOE establish tentative boundaries for the system of education service cooperatives, and provides rules for those boundaries.
Provides that education service cooperatives shall be established when 75% of the school districts in a proposed education service cooperative area request such action by formal resolutions filed by the school district boards of directors with the Commissioner of Education.
Requires that each education service cooperative must establish a teacher center which will provide, consistent with funds available, curriculum development assistance, educational materials, and staff development services to teachers within the school districts in the service area, and provides rules for these centers.
Directs the Commissioner of Education to name a person to serve as liaison between the department and the education service cooperatives.
Requires each education service cooperative to conduct annual surveys and needs assessments to assist the education service cooperative in its first priority of helping school districts improve their educational programs and practices.
Provides that the programs and services of each education service cooperative must be based upon the needs of the school districts included in its service area and upon the educational priorities of the state.
Requires that the state provide funds to support the basic structure of the education service cooperatives including: (1) salaries and fringe benefits for a director, a teacher center coordinator, and support staff, (2) costs such as travel, utilities, rent, equipment, and supplies, (3) funds to support staff and curriculum development activities, and (4) funds in an annual amount not to exceed twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000) for the travel expenses of itinerant personnel employed by the education service cooperative to serve the part-time needs of local school districts.
Outlines procedures for filing required documents with the BOE by August 31 of each year.
Requires each education service cooperative to be evaluated during the 2012-2013 school year, and at least once within each five-year period, on a schedule established by the Commissioner of Education, all active education service cooperatives must be visited by an evaluation committee of not more than nine persons.
Authorizes the BOE to dissolve any education service cooperative upon the request of a majority of its school district boards of directors or upon the recommendation of the evaluation committee.
Provides for the BOE, if funding is available and a majority vote is reached, to establish the following: (1) a technology training center and employ a technology coordinator, and (2) a mathematics and science center.
Defines education service cooperatives as local education agencies, and defines "fiscal distress" qualifications, plans and actions for education service cooperatives.
http://170.94.37.152/REGS/005.01.12-003F-13038.pdf
Title: AR ADC 005.01.24-1.00 to AR ADC 005.01.24-31.00
Source: http://www.sos.arkansas.gov/rules_and_regs/
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| PA | Signed into law 07/2012 | P-12 | This section allows a district to satisfy the requirement that it operate an elementary school by operating such a school, converting a building to a charter elementary school, contracting with an education management service provider to operate an elementary school, or paying tuition for students residing in the district to attend school in another school district upon the agreement of both school districts.
http://www.legis.state.pa.us/CFDOCS/Legis/PN/Public/btCheck.cfm?txtType=PDF&sessYr=2011&sessInd=0&billBody=H&billTyp=B&billNbr=1307&pn=3771
Title: H.B. 1307 - Multiple Provisions
Source: Westlaw/StateNet
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| AR | Adopted 05/2012 | P-12 | Outlines requirements for publishing school district classified and licensed personnel policies, salary schedules, establishing minimum salaries, and other documents mandated to be posted to the district's website.
http://170.94.37.152/REGS/005.01.12-008F-12938.pdf
Title: AR ADC 005.01.25-1.00 to AR ADC 005.01.25-9.00
Source: http://www.sos.arkansas.gov/rules_and_regs/
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| IA | Signed into law 05/2012 | P-12 | Permits the authorization of individuals that successfully complete a training program to meet Board of Educational Examiners standards to assist school principals in performing non-instructional duties.
http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us/linc/84/external/govbills/SF2284.pdf
Title: S.F. 2284 - Division VI
Source: http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us
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| TN | Signed into law 05/2012 | P-12 | Removes prohibition on creation of municipal school districts.
http://www.capitol.tn.gov/Bills/107/Bill/SB2908.pdf
Title: S.B. 2908
Source: http://www.capitol.tn.gov
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| UT | Signed into law 03/2012 | P-12 | Directs the state board to determine how reporting requirements may be modified or eliminated to reduce the time district and charter school personnel spend in completing reports. Directs the state board to seek to eliminate redundancy in reporting information and consider eliminating a report that has low value compared to the time and effort spent to produce the report. Directs the state board to report to the Education Interim Committee by October 2012 on state board actions to modify or eliminate reporting requirements, and recommendations for the elimination or modification of reporting requirements imposed by state statute. Repeals these provisions effective July 1, 2013. http://le.utah.gov/~2012/bills/hbillenr/hb0500.pdf
Title: H.B. 500
Source: le.utah.gov
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| IL | Signed into law 08/2011 | P-12 | Encourages each regional superintendent of schools to offer districts the opportunity to share in joint educational or operational programs, and to urge school districts to participate in such programs when the
school district determines that such participation is fiscally prudent. Permits a regional superintendent of schools to present to a district possible services and functions that multiple schools may share or consolidate. Permits regional superintendents to share best practices with districts exploring new methods to become more financially efficient.
Directs each school district to annually complete a report, to be published on the state board Web site and district Web site, summarizing district attempts to improve fiscal efficiency through shared services
or outsourcing in the prior fiscal year. Requires that the report include the incidence of numerous specified shared service options related to both operations and instruction, and a list of potential shared services or outsourcing the district may consider or investigate for the next fiscal year, along with any anticipated barriers to implementation. Based on data supplied by districts, requires regional superintendents to annually publish a regional report summarizing district attempts to improve fiscal efficiency through shared services or outsourcing within the educational service region. Requires that this report include a list of all joint purchasing initiatives, joint agreements between districts, attempts to reduce or eliminate duplication of services and duplicative expenditures, and identification of any overlapping regional service delivery systems. Provides that for school districts required to develop and submit a deficit reduction plan to the state board, the regional superintendent of schools and the school district must jointly prepare a shared services and outsourcing plan that considers actions that may improve the district's fiscal efficiency and how future savings associated with shared services or outsourcing are to be utilized. http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/publicacts/97/PDF/097-0357.pdf
Title: S.B. 2134
Source: /www.ilga.gov
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| CA | Signed into law 07/2011 | P-12 | Clarifies that for purposes of state board allocation of federal funds to districts, "districts" are defined to include school districts, county offices of education, and other educational agencies or entities deemed eligible pursuant to state and federal law. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/11-12/bill/asm/ab_0151-0200/ab_169_bill_20110725_chaptered.pdf
Title: A.B. 169
Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov
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| IN | Signed into law 07/2011 | P-12 | Requires the state department to develop a program to provide training and evaluations for school corporations in operational efficiency. Authorizes the department to contract with an outside entity to provide quality training. Requires any school corporation to submit any information that the department is necessary to evaluate the school corporation's current operations and to recommend operational efficiencies and financial savings.
Full text: http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2011/SE/SE0001.1.html
Title: S.B. 1 - Operational Efficiency Reviews
Source: http://www.in.gov
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| ME | Signed into law 07/2011 | P-12 | Provides for the creation, submission, review and approval of innovation plans to establish innovative public school zones and innovative public school districts. Requires an innovative public school zone and an innovative public school district to demonstrate a system for accountability for student achievement that exceeds, but is not in conflict with, the state's accountability standards and assessment system. Allows one or more public schools within a school district to initiate the creation of an innovation plan for submission to its school board. Permits a school board to initiate and collaborate with one or more of the public schools it operates to create an innovation plan. Provides that a school board may obtain waivers of laws, rules and local policy requirements from the Commissioner of Education that are considered necessary for an innovative public school zone or district to implement an innovation plan. http://www.mainelegislature.org/legis/bills/bills_125th/chapters/PUBLIC446.asp
Title: S.P. 466
Source: http://www.mainelegislature.org
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| TX | Signed into law 07/2011 | P-12 | From bill summary: Authorizes a district to require a person who requests public information provided by the district to pay the estimated charges for the request before the request is fulfilled. Page 17 of 19: http://www.legis.state.tx.us/tlodocs/821/billtext/pdf/SB00008F.pdf#navpanes=0
Title: S.B. 8 - Public Information Requests
Source: www.legis.state.tx.us
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| ME | Signed into law 06/2011 | P-12 | Removes provisions of law that allow school administrative units to use a process other than a competitive bid process in selecting energy service providers for the design, installation, operation, maintenance and financing of energy conservation or combined energy conservation and air quality improvements. Requires the Department of Administrative and Financial Services, Bureau of General Services to adopt a model contract for these services. http://www.mainelegislature.org/legis/bills/bills_125th/chapters/PUBLIC279.asp
Title: H.P. 583
Source: http://www.mainelegislature.org
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| NC | Signed into law 06/2011 | P-12 | Authorizes local boards of education to jointly establish a regional school to serve enrolled students in two or more local school districts that will expand student opportunities for educational success through high quality instructional programming. Provides that regional schools may include partnerships with other education partners, including institutions of higher education and private businesses or organizations, and will foster, encourage, and promote the development of knowledge and skills in career clusters of critical importance to the region. http://www.ncga.state.nc.us/Sessions/2011/Bills/Senate/HTML/S125v7.html
Title: S.B. 125
Source: http://www.ncga.state.nc.us
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| NC | Signed into law 06/2011 | P-12 | Allows the parent of multiple birth siblings who are assigned to the same grade level and school to request a consultative meeting with the school principal to consider that the initial school placement of the siblings be in the same classroom or in separate classrooms. Requires the request to be be made no later than five days before the first day of each school year or five days after the first day of attendance of students during the school year if the students are enrolled in the school after the school year commences. Permits the school to recommend to the parent the appropriate classroom placement for multiple birth siblings and provide professional educational advice to assist the parent with the decision regarding appropriate classroom placement. http://www.ncga.state.nc.us/Sessions/2011/Bills/Senate/HTML/S726v5.html
Title: S.B. 726
Source: http://www.ncga.state.nc.us
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| OH | Signed into law 06/2011 | P-12 | Section 9.482: Authorizes a political subdivision (including a school district), when authorized by their respective legislative authorities, to enter into an agreement with another political subdivision to allow the contracting political subdivision to exercise any power, perform any function or render any service that the contracting recipient political subdivision is otherwise legally authorized to exercise, perform or render. Establishes parameters for such agreements. Provides that employees acting outside the boundaries of their employing political subdivision while providing a service under an agreement may participate in any pension or indemnity fund established by the political subdivision to the same extent as while they are acting within the boundaries of the political subdivision, and are entitled to all the rights and benefits of
Chapter 4123 of the Revised Code to the same extent as while they are performing a service within the boundaries of the political subdivision. Pages 43-44 of 1000: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText129/129_HB_153_EN_part1.pdf
Title: H.B. 153 - Powers of Political Subdivisions
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us
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| OH | Signed into law 06/2011 | P-12 | Creates new sections 189.01 through 189.09. Creates the local government innovation program to provide loans and grants for local government innovation projects. Creates the local government innovation council to establish criteria for and make loans and awards to political subdivisions, including school districts, for local government innovation projects. Provides that not more than $100,000 may be awarded to an individual political subdivision, and that not more than $500,000 may be awarded per innovation project. Requires the council to begin evaluating proposals by March 2012, and to make its first round of awards by July 2012. Provides the local government innovation council will cease to exist on December 31, 2015. Pages 389-393 of 1000: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText129/129_HB_153_EN_part1.pdf
Title: H.B. 153 - Local Government Innovation Program
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us
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| OH | Signed into law 06/2011 | P-12 | Makes permissive rather than mandatory certain minimum operating standards for school districts established by 2009 H.B. 1, and found in Sec. 3301.07(D)(3). Replaces references to "organizational units" with references to "buildings" in this passage of 3301.07.Repeals provision that the state board may revoke the charter of any school district that fails to meet the operating standards established under 3301.07(D)(3). Repeals provision that a high school or elementary school may consist of less than one or more than one organizational unit
Page 998-1000 of 1000 (Part I): http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText129/129_HB_153_EN_part1.pdf, and page 29-30 of 1000 (Part II): http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText129/129_HB_153_EN_part2.pdf
Title: H.B. 153 - Minimum Operating Standards for School Districts
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us
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| OH | Signed into law 06/2011 | P-12 | Authorizes an educational service center's governing board to task an executive committee of the governing board with performing specified actions. Provides that the appointed members of an educational service center governing board may be representative of the client school districts of the service center. Establishes that if all of the local school districts that make up the territory of an educational service center have severed from the territory of that service center, the service center is dissolved and the governing board is abolished. Provides procedures relative to the dissolution of a service center.
Directs districts with an average daily student membership of 16,000 or less to enter into an agreement with the governing board of an educational service center to provide services. Permits districts with an average daily student membership of more than 16,000 to enter into such agreements. Specifies that contracts may be entered into for any services the district board and service center governing board agree can be better provided by the service center and that are not provided under an agreement established through 3313.845 http://codes.ohio.gov/orc/3313.845. Establishes parameters for a district to terminate an agreement for an educational service center's services. Permits the governing board of an educational service center to enter into a contract to provide services to any political subdivision as defined in section
2744.01 of the Revised Code, not including school districts, community schools, or STEM schools,
Pages 87-90 and 162-165 of 1000: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText129/129_HB_153_EN_part2.pdf
Title: H.B. 153 - Educational Service Centers
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us
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| OR | Signed into law 06/2011 | P-12 | Allows certain school districts of an education service district to withdraw from the education service district. Requires the education service district to distribute to school districts that withdrawn the school district's prorated amount of specified funds available to the education service district. Reduces the amount of distribution to education service districts in 2011-12 and 2012-13. Directs that the withdrawing school district receive 90% of the district's prorated share of specified funds available to an education service district.
The measure creates the Office of Regional Education Services (ORES) under the direction and control of the State Board of Education, with a director of the ORES selected by the superintendent of public instruction. The ORES is directed to establish best practice policies, benchmarks, provide training and support to ESD superintendents, and make recommendations. The ORES director is allowed to enter into contracts necessary to perform the duties required by the measure. The measure establishes a formula for an amount to be transferred from the State School Fund to the Regional Education Services Account each fiscal year beginning in 2011-12. The measure provides that the ORES may expend no more than $500,000 per biennium from the account and that access monies in the account must be transferred back to the State School Fund on June 30 or each odd-numbered year for distribution to school districts. Effective August 2, 2011
http://www.leg.state.or.us/11reg/measures/sb0200.dir/sb0250.en.html
Title: S.B. 250
Source: http://www.leg.state.or.us
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| TX | Signed into law 06/2011 | P-12 | Prohibits district boards or employees from requiring or coercing any employee to make a contribution to a charitable organization or in response to a fund-raiser, or attend a meeting to solicit charitable contributions. Also prohibits district boards or employees from requiring or coercing any school district employee to refrain from making a contribution to a charitable organization or in response to a fund-raiser, or attend a meeting to solicit charitable contributions. http://www.capitol.state.tx.us/tlodocs/82R/billtext/pdf/HB01682F.pdf#navpanes=0
Title: H.B. 1682
Source: www.capitol.state.tx.us
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| TX | Signed into law 06/2011 | P-12 | Prohibits the board of trustees of an independent school district from using district funds, property, employees or other resources, or acquiring property for the design, construction, renovation, or operation of a hotel. http://www.capitol.state.tx.us/tlodocs/82R/billtext/pdf/SB00764F.pdf#navpanes=0
Title: S.B. 764
Source: www.capitol.state.tx.us
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| ME | Signed into law 05/2011 | P-12 | Exempts certain reformulated school administrative districts that did not operate a K-12 program from the requirement to maintain such a program. Clarifies that the vote regarding the closure of an elementary or secondary school in a regional school unit is required only when the school is closed for lack of need. Repeals the annual audit requirement for the purpose of approving private schools for tuition purposes. Clarifies that elementary school and secondary school closures for regional school units that have more than one secondary school must be in accordance with the procedures in state law (Me. Rev. State. Ann. tit. 20A, § 1512). Amends the language on annual student counts for school administrative units and publicly funded students in private schools or programs for reporting dates to the Department of Education according to time schedules that the Commissioner of Education established. Amends the laws governing student counts to require that student counts are based on the number of students in attendance on October 1st and April 1st. http://www.mainelegislature.org/legis/bills/bills_125th/chapters/PUBLIC171.asp
Title: H.P. 959
Source: http://www.mainelegislature.org
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| OK | Signed into law 05/2011 | P-12 | Creates the Task Force on Creating Administrative Efficiencies until November 30, 2011. The seven-member task force must examine ways to reduce administrative costs and the impact on cost reductions on school district operations and student learning.
http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf/2011-12%20ENR/SB/SB536%20ENR.DOC
Title: S.B. 536
Source: http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/
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| AR | Signed into law 04/2011 | P-12 | Requires school district board members to obtain professional development concerning audit procedures. Defines scope and content of training and when a school board member must undergo training.
http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2011/2011R/Acts/Act1213.pdf
Title: H.B. 1708
Source: http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/
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| AR | Signed into law 04/2011 | P-12 | Requires the Department of Education to annually publish a List of all school districts with fewer than three hundred 350 students according to the school district average daily membership in the school year immediately preceding the current school year. Prohibits a school district from incurring incur debt without the prior written approval of the department if the school district is identified by the as having fewer than 350 students according to the school district average daily membership in the school year immediately preceding the current school year. (Secs 10 + 11)
http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2011/2011R/Acts/Act989.pdf
Title: S.B. 383
Source: http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us
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| AZ | Signed into law 04/2011 | P-12 | Prohibits school districts from paying for membership in an association that attempts to influence the outcome of an election.
http://www.azleg.gov/legtext/50leg/1r/bills/hb2002s.pdf
Title: H.B. 2002
Source: http://www.azleg.gov
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| ID | Signed into law 03/2011 | P-12 | Amends existing law relating to education to provide that accurate records or minutes of certain proceedings shall be kept, and shall be available for public inspection at the office of the affected school district.
http://www.legislature.idaho.gov/legislation/2011/H0021.pdf
Title: H.B. 21
Source: http://www.legislature.idaho.gov
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| ID | Signed into law 03/2011 | P-12 | Specifies provisions for school discontinuation. Amends existing law relating to discontinuing a school to specify procedures and to provide for an exception if the school constitutes an imminent public safety hazard or if the school district board of trustees have voted at a public meeting to discontinue the school.
http://legislature.idaho.gov/legislation/2011/S1066.pdf
Title: S.B. 1066
Source: http://legislature.idaho.gov
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| NM | Signed into law 03/2011 | P-12 | Allows priority school enrollment within the attendance area to students whose parents are active duty military personnel in New Mexico.
http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/11%20Regular/final/HB0014.pdf
Title: H.B. 14
Source: http://www.nmlegis.gov
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| OH | Signed into law 03/2011 | P-12 | Permits the state superintendent to issue waivers from certain financial reporting standards for districts and educational service centers, and certain state board standards for the operation of K-12 programs defined in divisions (B)(2) and (D) of Section 3301.07. Directs the state board to adopt standards for the approval or disapproval of such waivers. Provides a waiver may not exceed five years, but that a district board may apply to renew a waiver. Permits the state board to revoke the charter of any school district that fails to meet the operating standards established under division (D)(3) of section 3301.07.
Pages 6-7 of 41: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText129/129_HB_30_EN_N.pdf
Full text of repealed divisions (B)(2) and (D) of Section 3301.07 on page 980 and ff. of 3120: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText128/128_HB_1_EN_N.pdf
Title: H.B. 30 - Financial Reporting and Certain Standards for Operation of K-12 Programs
Source:
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| UT | Signed into law 03/2011 | P-12 | Amends the definition of "agency" to include a school, a school district or a charter school. Prohibits a school, a school district or a charter school from expending state-appropriated money to pay a contract lobbyist. http://le.utah.gov/~2011/bills/sbillenr/sb0123.pdf
Title: S.B. 123
Source: le.utah.gov
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| UT | Signed into law 03/2011 | P-12 | From bill summary: Allows and encourages local school boards to enter into an interlocal agreement to create a regional service center to provide education related services. Requires a regional service center to be formed by an interlocal agreement to receive state funding. Provides that an interlocal agreement may confirm or formalize a regional service center in operation before a certain date. Requires the state board of education to make rules regarding regional service centers. Provides that a charter school may enter into a contract with an eligible regional service center to provide education related services to the charter school. http://le.utah.gov/~2011/bills/hbillenr/hb0092.pdf
Title: H.B. 92
Source: le.utah.gov
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| PA | Signed into law 11/2010 | P-12 | Not a traditional voucher, but does provide tuition for students to attend school in another district under a tuition arrangement. From the fiscal note: Authorizes tuition for students in small district that are currently under fiscal district to designated districts that accept those students. Receiving school districts will be paid a calculated tuition rate and an additional stipend for two years. The sending district will continue to count those students as part of its average daily membership.
http://www.legis.state.pa.us/CFDOCS/Legis/PN/Public/btCheck.cfm?txtType=PDF&sessYr=2009&sessInd=0&billBody=S&billTyp=B&billNbr=0441&pn=2281
Title: S.B. 441 - Amending Section 1607
Source: http://www.legis.state.pa.us
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| NY | Vetoed 09/2010 | P-12 | Creates the school district finance security task force to develop guidelines for school districts to protect sensitive banking and other information related to school district funds, from theft and other adverse consequences related to financial transactions, and to make recommendations for legislation. http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?default_fld=&bn=S07323&Summary=Y&Actions=Y&Memo=Y&Text=Y
Title: S.B. 7323
Source: assembly.state.ny.us
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| NY | Signed into law 08/2010 | P-12 | Authorizes the commissioner of education to receive all information required to be reported by statute or regulation through electronic means. Provides that it is the duty of the commissioner of education to review all reports and plans that districts and BOCES must submit and, by November 2010, report to the board of regents, governor and specified legislative leaders recommendations to eliminate unnecessary or duplicative reporting requirements, and where possible, recommendations to consolidate reports, plans and other information required to be submitted to the commissioner.
http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?default_fld=%0D%0A&bn=A11566&Summary=Y&Actions=Y&Text=Y
Title: A.B. 11566 - Section 1
Source: assembly.state.ny.us
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| NY | Signed into law 08/2010 | P-12 | Requires that boards of cooperative educational services (BOCES) include special education and career education program plans in their long range program plans. Eliminates language requiring BOCES to create separate plans for special education and career education. Repeals provision requiring BOCES report cards to include information on BOCES services regarding pupil performance and per pupil expenditure required to be included in the annual report by the regents to the governor and the legislature pursuant to section 215a of the education code. http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?default_fld=%0D%0A&bn=A11566&Summary=Y&Actions=Y&Text=Y
Title: A.B. 11566 - Section 6 and 7
Source: assembly.state.ny.us
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| CA | Signed into law 07/2010 | P-12 | Encourages school districts to engage in recycling programs and to promote awareness of available state resources that schools may utilize to establish and maintain recycling programs. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/09-10/bill/asm/ab_0101-0150/acr_128_bill_20100706_chaptered.pdf
Title: A.C.R. 128
Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov
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| DC | Adopted 07/2010 | P-12 | Establishes an environmental programs office in the Office of Public Education Facilities Modernization that would establish comprehensive recycling, energy reduction, integrated pest management and lead testing programs. Requires DC public schools to use environmentally friendly cleaning supplies. Directs the District of Columbia Public Schools to submit to the mayor, the council, and the Healthy Schools and
Youth Commission, on or before December 31, 2010, a plan to use sustainable products in serving meals to students. On or before December 31, 2010, directs the Mayor to submit to the council a comprehensive report describing the implementation of recycling, composting, energy-reduction, pest management, air quality and environmentally friendly cleaning supplies programs in public schools. Directs the district department of the environment to create an environmental literacy plan.
Establishes a school gardens program in the office of the state superintendent of education. On or before June 30, 2011, requires the school gardens program to issue a report to the mayor, the council, and the Healthy Schools and Youth Commission about the state of school gardens in the District of Columbia, plans for expanding them, and recommendations for improving the program. Directs the University of the District of Columbia to assist the school gardens program by providing technical expertise, curricula and soil testing for school gardens. Permits the sale and consumption of food grown in school gardens when safe. Provides that one of the purposes of the newly-created Healthy Schools Fund is to make competitive grants available to support school gardens.
Amends the Green Building Act of 2006 to encourage school construction to achieve LEED Gold certification if sufficient funding for the construction or renovation is provided.
Pages 4 and 11-13 of 19: http://www.dccouncil.us/images/00001/20100510112429.pdf
Title: LB 18-564 - School Environments and School Gardens
Source: www.dccouncil.us
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| IL | Signed into law 06/2010 | P-12 | Authorizes any two or more school districts to form an agency, by establishment of an intergovernmental agreement, to acquire and construct facilities designed to convert wind or solar power to energy. Identifies elements that must be addressed in the intergovernmental agreement. Establishes powers and duties of an agency, including (1) purchasing or selling, or investigating the desirability of and necessity for additional means of providing electrical energy from wind sources of any kind and (2) issuing bonds to provide sufficient funds to cover the costs of such projects. http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/96/HB/PDF/09600HB6419lv.pdf
Title: H.B. 6419
Source: www.ilga.gov
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| NH | Signed into law 05/2010 | P-12 | Authorizes school district treasurers to appoint a deputy treasurer subject to approval by the school board.
http://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/legislation/2010/HB1157.html
Title: H.B. 1157
Source: http://www.gencourt.state.nh.us
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| WI | Signed into law 05/2010 | P-12 | Under the Act (Act No. 250), a school district resident may object to the use of a race-based nickname, logo, mascot, or team name by a school board of that school district by filing a complaint with the State Superintendent of Public Instruction. The state superintendent must notify the school board of the receipt of the complaint and of the State Superintendent's determination and schedule a contested case hearing within 45 days after the complaint is filed. Provides for exceptions.
http://www.legis.state.wi.us/2009/data/SB-25.pdf
Title: S.B. 25
Source: http://www.legis.state.wi.us
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| NH | Signed into law 04/2010 | P-12 | This bill makes various changes to the section on organization of, reorganization of, and withdrawal from a school administrative unit.
http://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/legislation/2010/HB0615.html
Title: H.B. 615
Source: http://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/
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| OK | Signed into law 04/2010 | P-12 | Relates to a study by the State Board of Education concerning ways to eliminate or reduce reports, data, and other information required of school districts and district personnel; provides for the participation of other educational organizations in the study; extends the date by which a report shall be issued; authorizes the Board to survey a sample of classroom teachers, to review certain school district efforts, and to standardize compliance requirements of the federal Individuals with Disabilities Act.
http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/2009-10bills/HB/HB1479_ENR.RTF
Title: H.B. 1479
Source: http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us
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| IA | Signed into law 03/2010 | P-12
Postsec.
Community College | Requires public schools, community colleges, institutions under the control of the State Board of Regents, and state agencies to comply with an environmentally preferable cleaning and maintenance policy.
http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us/linc/HF823_Enrolled.pdf
Title: H.B. 823
Source: http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us
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| KY | Signed into law 03/2010 | P-12 | Establishes a deadline of January 1, 2011 for cities and school boards to submit to the county clerk a list of properties and boundaries and changes to boundaries, to allow the county clerk to maintain a roster of voters who are eligible to vote in school board elections. Permits electronic transmission of information. Prohibits county clerks from charging a fee to cities or school boards for transmittal of such information. Permits county clerks to request more information if necessary in order to maintain the voting roster. http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/10RS/SB35/bill.doc
Title: S.B. 35
Source: www.lrc.ky.gov
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| NY | Vetoed 03/2010 | P-12 | Relates to teachers' rights; adds other specified personnel to teachers and teaching assistants when a board of cooperative educational services takes over a program previously offered by a district or districts or by a county vocational education and extension board. http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?default_fld=%0D%0A&bn=S06154&Summary=Y&Actions=Y&Memo=Y&Text=Y
Title: S.B. 6154
Source: assembly.state.ny.us
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| OR | Signed into law 03/2010 | P-12 | Provides school district resident qualification for certain exchange students; provides for adjustments to distributions to school districts for such exchange students; adds prekindergarten providers to the entities that may receive assistance under a health literacy program pilot project; establishes a funds diversion agreement between the State Board of Education and districts to divert moneys from the State School Fund to a special account for school construction bond debt service. Chapter 21
http://www.leg.state.or.us/10ss1/measpdf/sb0900.dir/sb0988.en.pdf
Title: S.B. 988A
Source: http://www.leg.state.or.us/
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| DE | Signed into law 02/2010 | P-12 | Amends the notice requirements for school districts conducting elections; provides a deadline for a district to return voter affidavits if given to it and makes voting twice in a school election a crime; clarifies the content of the notice to be posted by school districts conducting referenda to raise local taxes and/or issue local bonds; authorizes the Department of Elections to cancel an election to raise local taxes and/or issue bonds if the notice requirements are not met.
http://legis.delaware.gov/LIS/lis145.nsf/vwLegislation/HB+244/$file/legis.html?open
Title: H.B. 244
Source: http://legis.delaware.gov
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| NE | Signed into law 02/2010 | P-12 | Excerpts from the Fiscal Note: LB 711 changes provisions for the withdrawal of districts from a unified school system or the dissolution of a unified school system. A unified school system has two or more Class II or III school districts participating in the system for a minimum of three years. There are currently three unified school systems in the state. The bill authorizes additional school districts to form unified systems in the future. It also allows school districts currently participating in unified systems to withdraw from such systems and not be required to merge with another district. The financial implications of the bill cannot be determined because it is unknown which districts may seek to dissolve or withdraw from existing unified systems; how interlocal agreements relating to the rights and liabilities of districts upon
withdrawal or dissolution of a system will differ from declaratory judgments; and, which districts may form unified systems in the future.
The bill also changes the certification date for state aid pursuant to the Tax Equity and Educational Opportunities Support Act
(TEEOSA) for 2010-11, from on or before March 1, 2010 to on or before March 10, 2010.
http://www.nebraskalegislature.gov/bills/view_bill.php?DocumentID=9631
Title: L.B. 711
Source: http://www.nebraskalegislature.gov
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| VA | Signed into law 02/2010 | P-12 | Relates to local school divisions; reduces certain reporting requirements of local schools.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?101+ful+HB208ER+pdf
Title: H.B. 208
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us
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| IL | Signed into law 01/2010 | P-12 | Requires the department of human services to operate a comprehensive professional development system called the Gateways to Opportunity program. Directs the department of human services to award Gateways to Opportunity credentials to early care and education, school-age, and youth development practitioners, based on a variety of professional achievements in field experience, knowledge and skills, educational attainment and training accomplishments. Specifies the Gateways to Opportunity program must identify professional knowledge guidelines that define what all practitioners working with children and youth need to know and be able to do to support children's and youth's development, school readiness and school success
Provides that a child who has attended a private preschool and attended a kindergarten class at that school taught by an appropriately certified teacher, who will turn 6 on or before December 31, may attend 1st grade in a public school at the beginning of that school year, upon an assessment of the child's readiness. http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/96/HB/PDF/09600HB0806lv.pdf
Title: H.B. 806
Source: www.ilga.gov
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| MA | Signed into law 01/2010 | P-12 | Authorizes two or more school committees of cities, towns and regional school districts and boards of trustees of charter schools to enter into written agreements to conduct education programs and services to complement and strengthen the school programs of member school committees and charter schools and increase educational opportunities for children. The school committees and boards of trustees of charter schools shall collaborate to offer the programs and services; provided, however, the association of school committees and board of trustees of charter schools which is formed to deliver the programs and services shall be known as an education collaborative.
http://www.mass.gov/legis/bills/senate/186/st02/st02247.htm
Title: S.B. 2247; (NEW BILL)
Source: http://www.mass.gov
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| IL | Signed into law 11/2009 | P-12 | Establishes a Streamlining Illinois' Educational Delivery Systems Task Force. Directs the task force to explore and examine the duties of the state board of education and all regional support systems for school districts (including regional offices of education, intermediate service centers, special education cooperatives, education for employments systems and learning technology centers), to determine which duties and responsibilities should be provided regionally to more appropriately and efficiently deliver services. Directs the task force to review how the regional support systems can centrally coordinate communication with private school systems. Establishes membership. Directs the task force to submit a final report of its findings and recommendations to the governor and the general assembly by August 1, 2010. Repeals section and abolishes task force on August 2, 2010. http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/publicacts/96/PDF/096-0798.pdf
Title: S.B. 1882
Source: www.ilga.gov/legislation
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| CA | Signed into law 10/2009 | P-12 | Revises and clarifies the definition of an action to reorganize a school district. Authorizes a county committee to approve a petition to form school districts if specified conditions are met, including the granting of approval authority by each county superintendent of schools with jurisdiction over an affected district that elects to grant approval authority. Relates to the annexation of a lapsing district into one or more other districts. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/09-10/bill/asm/ab_0151-0200/ab_174_bill_20091011_chaptered.pdf
Title: A.B. 174
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| CA | Vetoed 08/2009 | P-12 | Existing law requires the state board of education to direct the allocation and apportionment of federal funds to school districts. Proposed provision includes county offices of education and other agencies within the definition of school district for purposes of these provisions. Bill: http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/09-10/bill/asm/ab_0301-0350/ab_339_bill_20090713_enrolled.pdf
Veto message: http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/09-10/bill/asm/ab_0301-0350/ab_339_vt_20090805.html
Title: A.B. 339
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| IL | Signed into law 08/2009 | P-12 | Makes changes concerning the the breakfast incentive program. Adds subsection making grants available to school boards and welfare centers to offer the school breakfast program in non-traditional settings or using non-traditional methods. Specifies that priority will be given to applications from schools on the Early Academic Warning List. Amends elements on which the state board must report to the governor and the general assembly concerning free meals in schools. Specifies information required in the report. Eliminates provision allowing local boards to determine which schools will be required to operate a school breakfast program. Eliminates provision allowing districts to opt out of the school breakfast program; replaces with provision allowing districts to opt out individual schools. http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/96/SB/PDF/09600SB1957lv.pdf
Title: S.B. 1957
Source: www.ilga.gov/legislation
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| IL | Signed into law 08/2009 | P-12 | Requires school districts to adopt a procedure to comply with the Lawn Care Products Application and Notice Act and the Structural Pest Control Act. Requires licensed day care centers to ensure that products will not be applied to day care center grounds when children are present. Requires applicators to provide a copy of the approved pesticide registration label as well as the material safety data sheet. http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/96/SB/PDF/09600SB1769lv.pdf
Title: S.B. 1769
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| IL | Signed into law 08/2009 | P-12 | Amends the Asbestos Abatement Act. Deletes a provision requiring the department of public health to require local educational agencies to submit to the department certain asbestos related response action contracts for which the agency seeks indemnification and collect from the agency 5% of each response action contract for deposit into the Response Contractors Indemnification Fund. Amends the Response Action Contractor Indemnification Act. http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/96/SB/PDF/09600SB2145lv.pdf
Title: S.B. 2145
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| IL | Signed into law 08/2009 | P-12 | Adds contracts providing for the transportation of pupils with special needs or disabilities to the list of exceptions to the requirement that certain contracts be awarded to the lowest responsible bidder. Provides that these contracts must be advertised in the same manner as competitive bids and awarded by first considering the bidder or bidders most able to provide safety and comfort for the pupils with special needs. http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/96/HB/PDF/09600HB2362lv.pdf
Title: H.B. 2362
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| IL | Signed into law 08/2009 | P-12 | Makes changes with respect to the establishment and purpose of a regional office of education advisory board by providing that, beginning October 1, 2009, a board shall be established within each region serving Class I counties or within each group of regions participating in an intergovernmental agreement for the provision of professional development to advise the regional superintendent of schools on the planning and delivery of professional development programs. Reduces regional office of education advisory boards from 13 to 9 members. Specifies that all members must be certified and be employed in positions requiring certification by a school district, special education cooperative, joint agreement or regional office of education program. Amends means of selecting teacher and administrator members. http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/96/HB/PDF/09600HB1108lv.pdf
Title: H.B. 1108
Source: www.ilga.gov/legislation
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| IL | Signed into law 08/2009 | P-12
Community College | Creates the School Wind and Solar Generation Program to fund wind and solar generation projects for school and community college districts. Provides for the award of full or partial low-interest loans for engineering studies, feasibility studies, research studies and construction costs for wind and solar generation projects. Creates the School Wind and Solar Generation Revolving Loan Fund as a special fund in the state treasury. Revises provisions concerning the renewable energy grant program. Expands the allowable use of such grants for school and community college districts. Allows districts to own solar generation turbine farms. http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/96/SB/PDF/09600SB1570lv.pdf
Title: S.B. 1570
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| IL | Signed into law 08/2009 | P-12 | Amends the Local Government Property Transfer Act to include in the definition of "transferee municipality" two or more districts operating a cooperative or joint educational program for purposes of providing special education services. Replaces references to "school psychologist" employed under such joint agreements with references to "professional worker" and eliminates provision that director of such program may be employed under a multi-year contract. Provides that joint agreements among school boards must include the method(s) to be employed for disposing of property upon the withdrawal of a school district or dissolution of the joint agreement. Clarifies that joint agreements must employ a full-time director of special education (prior legislation did not specify "full time" or director "of special education"). Repeals provision prohibiting any director's contract for extending longer than three years, as well as provision specifying that a contract renewal must be for a three-year period.
Repeals provision that a district may withdraw from a joint agreement for provision of special education services by by petition to the regional board of school trustees. Provides procedure for a withdrawing district to remove itself from a joint agreement.
Requires existing agreements to come into compliance with this Act. http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/publicacts/fulltext.asp?Name=096-0783&GA=96
Title: S.B. 611 - Joint Agreements to Provide Special Education Services
Source: www.ilga.gov
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| NY | Signed into law 08/2009 | P-12 | Creates the City-Wide Council on High Schools for New York City. Provides the council has the power to:
(1) Advise and comment on any educational or instructional policy involving high schools
(2) Issue an annual report on the effectiveness of the city district in providing services to high school students and making recommendations on how to improve the efficiency and delivery of such services
(3) Hold at least one meeting per month during which the public may discuss issues facing high schools.
Establishes means by which council members must be selected and method for filling vacancies. http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?bn=A08903&sh=t
Title: A.B. 8903 - City-Wide Council on High Schools
Source: assembly.state.ny.us
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| NY | Signed into law 08/2009 | P-12 | Makes technical changes to eligibility requirements of parent and high school senior members of the city-wide council on special education in New York City. http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?bn=A08903&sh=t
Title: A.B. 8903 - City-Wide Council on Special Education
Source: assembly.state.ny.us
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| NY | Signed into law 08/2009 | P-12 | Creates a [New York City] City-Wide Council on English Language Learners. Provides the council has the power to:
(1) Advise and comment on any educational or instructional policy involving bilinguor or English as a second language (ESL) programs.
(2) Issue an annual report on the effectiveness of the city district in providing services to English language learners and making recommendations on improving the efficiency and delivery of such services
(3) Hold at least one meeting per month to provide a forum for members of the public to discuss issues facing English language learners.
Establishes makeup of council and method for filling vacancies. http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?bn=A08903&sh=t
Title: A.B. 8903 - City-Wide Council on English Language Learners
Source: assembly.state.ny.us
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| HI | Veto overridden: legislature has overridden governor's veto 07/2009 | P-12 | Requires public school facilities to give first preference to the purchase of environmentally-sensitive cleaning and maintenance products. Directs the department of health to maintain a list of products that have been approved by the Green Seal program.
Bill: http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/session2009/Bills/HB1538_SD1_.HTM
Governor's veto message: http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/session2009/bills/GM845_.PDF
Title: H.B. 1538
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| IL | Signed into law 07/2009 | P-12 | Allows for a chief school business official endorsement to an administrative certificate if, among other conditions, the certificate holder has 2 years of university-approved practical experience. http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/96/SB/PDF/09600SB0187lv.pdf
Title: S.B. 187
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| OH | Signed into law 07/2009 | P-12 | 3319.611: Establishes the subcommittee on standards for superintendents of the education standards board (ESB). Establishes subcommittee membership. Provides that the subcommittee must assist the ESB in developing the standards for superintendents and with any additional matters the ESB directs the subcommittee to examine.
3319.612: Establishes the subcommittee on standards for school treasurers and business managers of the ESB. Provides that the subcommittee must assist the educator standards board in developing the standards for school treasurers and business managers and with any additional matters the ESB directs the subcommittee to examine.
3319.63: Requires a local boards employing an individual chosen to participate on either of these ESB subcommittees to grant the individual paid professional leave for the purpose of attending meetings and conducting official subcommittee business.
Pages 1400-1401 of 3120: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText128/128_HB_1_EN_N.pdf
Title: H.B. 1 - Section 3319.611, 3319.612, and 3319.63
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us
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| OH | Signed into law 07/2009 | P-12 | Amends the membership of the educator standards board (ESB). Specifies that board membership must reflect the diversity of the state in terms of gender, race, ethnic background and geographic distribution. Among other changes, adds to the board an individual employed as a district treasurer or business manager, and a parent of a student currently enrolled in a school run by a school district. Requires that standards board-developed standards for what teachers and principals should know and be able to do must be aligned with the operating standards adopted under division (D)(3) of section 3301.07. Requires that the standards for teachers reflect the standards under section 3301.079 (including standards on collaborative learning environments and interdisciplinary, project-based, real-world learning and differentiated instruction) and the Ohio leadership framework. Requires such standards to ensure that teachers have sufficient knowledge to enable them to provide learning opportunities for all children to succeed. Requires recommended teacher standards to be submitted to the state board by September 2010.
Requires the ESB to develop standards for school district superintendents that reflect what superintendents are expected to know and be able to do at all stages of their careers. Requires that the standards reflect knowledge of systems theory and effective management principles and be aligned with the buckeye association of school administrators standards and the operating standards developed under division (D)(3) of section 3301.07. Similarly requires the ESB to develop standards for school district treasurers and business managers that reflect what these professionals should know and be able to do at all stages of their careers. Requires that these standards reflect knowledge of systems theory and effective management principles and be aligned with the association of school business officials international standards and the operating standards developed under division (D)(3) of section 3301.07 of the Revised Code. Requires standards to ensure that principals, superintendents, school treasurers and school business managers have sufficient knowledge to provide principled, collaborative, foresighted and data-based leadership that will provide learning opportunities for all children to succeed.
Additionally directs the ESB to investigate and make recommendations for the creation, expansion and implementation of building and district leadership academies. Provides that the state superintendent, the chancellor of the Ohio board of regents, or the education standards board itself may request that the educator standards board update, review or reconsider any standards it has developed.
Requires that standards for educator professional development developed by the ESB include standards for the inclusion of local professional development committees established under section 3319.22 of the Revised Code in the planning and design of professional development. Requires the ESB to develop criteria to allow a candidate for a lead professional educator license who is not national board-certified must meet to be considered a lead teacher under Section 3319.22(B)(4)(d). Requires the ESB to develop model teacher and principal evaluation instruments and processes, and for such models to incorporate the ESB-developed standards for teachers. Directs the ESB to develop a method of measuring the academic improvement of individual students over a one-year period and to make recommendations for incorporating the measurement as one of multiple evaluation criteria into (1) Eligibility for a professional educator license, senior professional educator license, lead professional educator license, or principal license; (2) The Ohio teacher residency program; (3) The aforementioned ESB-developed model teacher and principal evaluation instruments and processes.
Pages 1393-1400 of 3120: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText128/128_HB_1_EN_N.pdf
Title: H.B. 1 - Section 3319.60, 3319.61
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us
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| AZ | Signed into law 06/2009 | P-12 | Makes school district election law amendments; relates to write-in candidates for a community college board office, a permanent early voter list, nomination petitions to fill a vacant position, signatures, post office box addresses, live video requirements and early ballot distribution. Chapter 149
http://www.azleg.gov/DocumentsForBill.asp?Bill_Number=SB1074
Title: S.B. 1074
Source: http://www.azleg.gov
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| HI | Adopted 06/2009 | P-12 | Amends rules on consolidation of two or more public schools. Repeals provision requiring establishment of a task force to study whether a school should be consolidated; transfers responsibility for consolidation studies to the department. Amends procedures and guidelines.
Title: HAR 8-38
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| IL | Signed into law 06/2009 | P-12 | Allows a school district, entity such as a special education cooperative or other joint agreement, or regional superintendent to establish a line of credit with a bank or other financial institution. Provides that the line of credit must not exceed a specified percent of the amount of property taxes most recently levied for specified purposes. Specifies that borrowed moneys may be used for educational, operations and maintenance, transportation, or other tax levy purposes or any combination thereof. Allows a school board to anticipate revenues due in the current or next fiscal year, to issue bonds, and to establish a line of credit in a specified amount under certain conditions. http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/96/HB/PDF/09600HB0999lv.pdf
Title: H.B. 999
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| TX | Signed into law 06/2009 | P-12 | Amends auditing procedures for and authority of county education departments in counties with a population of 3 million or more. http://www.legis.state.tx.us/tlodocs/81R/billtext/pdf/HB02549F.pdf
Title: H.B. 2549
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| TX | Signed into law 06/2009 | P-12 | Directs the state education agency to develop and maintain a comprehensive schedule that addresses all district reporting requirements (including those imposed by entities other than the state education agency), and that specifies the date by which a school district must comply with each requirement. Directs the state education agency to determine the manner in which the schedule is made readily accessible to school districts. http://www.legis.state.tx.us/tlodocs/81R/billtext/pdf/HB03041F.pdf
Title: H.B. 3041
Source: www.legis.state.tx.us
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| TX | Signed into law 06/2009 | P-12 | Modifies content of improvement plans regional education service centers must annually develop to describe services to be provided schools in need. Former legislation required services to be geared to campuses identified as academically unacceptable. New legislation requires services to be targeted at campuses assigned an unacceptable performance rating under new Section 39.054.
New Section 39.054: Pages 77-82 of 180: http://www.legis.state.tx.us/tlodocs/81R/billtext/pdf/HB00003F.pdf
Section 4: Pages 5-6 of 180: http://www.legis.state.tx.us/tlodocs/81R/billtext/pdf/HB00003F.pdf
Title: H.B. 3 - Section 4
Source: www.legis.state.tx.us
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| WI | Signed into law 06/2009 | P-12 | Adds 121.91 (4) (L). Defines "local law enforcement agency". Provides additional funding if a local board and local law enforcement agency (1) jointly develop a school safety plan that specifies the purposes
of the additional revenue, (2) the school safety plan is consistent with the school safety plan required under s. 118.07 (4), and the school board submits the school safety plan to the department. Provides the excess revenue may be used to purchase school safety equipment, fund the compensation costs of security officers, or for school safety expenditures consistent with the school safety plan.
Provides additional funding to cover the salaries and benefits of school nurses and transportation. Adds new provision to incentivize energy efficiency measures and renewable energy products that result in the avoidance of, or reduction in, energy costs.
Pages 481-482 of 692: http://www.legis.state.wi.us/2009/data/acts/09Act28.pdf
Title: A.B. 75
Source: www.legis.state.wi.us
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| ID | Signed into law 05/2009 | P-12 | Appropriates funds to the Educational Support Program, Division of Administrators; provides legislative intent that public school employee benefits be paid for all eligible employees that a school district actually employs with its salary- based apportionment allotment, regardless of whether such employees are categorized as administrative, instructional or classified staff; decreases base salaries for administrative staff. Chapter 270
http://www.legislature.idaho.gov/legislation/2009/H0323.htm
Title: H.B. 323
Source: http://www.legislature.idaho.gov
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| ME | Signed into law 05/2009 | P-12 | Provides for the formation of regional education cooperatives. School administrative units in existence as of July 1, 2009 may join a regional education cooperative of their choice, and each participating school administrative unit has a single representative to the cooperative board. Participation in regional education cooperatives is voluntary.
http://www.mainelegislature.org/legis/bills/bills_124th/billpdfs/HP072401.pdf
Title: H.B. 724
Source: http://www.mainelegislature.
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| NE | Signed into law 05/2009 | P-12 | Statement of intent: Legislative Bill 549 is the K-12 education technical bill for 2009. Substantive changes would include reducing the time a district would be allowed to contract for the instruction of all students from 3 years to 2 years, adding a requirement for districts to provide transportation allowances to parents of students who live more than 3 miles from the pick up point for transportation provided by the school, authorizing statewide regional networks for the provision of services to children with disabilities, and revising procedures for appointing surrogate parents for children with disabilities. A public hearing requirement would also be eliminated for itemized estimates for environmental hazards, accessibility barrier elimination, or modifications for life safety code violations, indoor air quality, or mold abatement and prevention. The measure would clarify or make minor revisions to provisions for exempt schools, student transportation, option enrollment, student records, school district reporting requirements, school board meetings, school finance, reorganization of educational service units, and veteran education. The sections regarding the Nebraska Equal Opportunity for Displaced Homemakers Act, the Diagnostic Resource Center in Cozad, and the obsolete distribution formula for core service funding would be outright repealed.
http://www.nebraskalegislature.gov/FloorDocs/Current/PDF/Final/LB549.pdf
Title: L.B. 549
Source: http://www.nebraskalegislature.gov
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| NV | Signed into law 05/2009 | P-12 | Authorizing the Superintendent of Public Instruction to issue an additional license to teach elementary education, middle school or junior high school education or secondary education to certain licensed teachers; revises provisions governing the reciprocal licensure of teachers and other educational personnel; requires the Commission on Professional Standards in Education to conduct a review of the regulations of the Commission governing the licensure and endorsement of special education teachers. Chapter 166.
http://www.leg.state.nv.us/75th2009/Bills/AB/AB425_en.pdf
Title: A.B. 425
Source: http://www.leg.state.nv.us
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| OK | Signed into law 05/2009 | P-12 | Establishes a formula for awarding educational building grants to school districts that have struggled to maintain quality educational facilities. Allows building grants to be awarded to schools where local per pupil property values are less than the state average and the school district has taken on its allowable bonded indebtedness. The grants would be awarded through the State Public Common School Building Equalization Fund. Establishes and sets parameters for using the State Public Common School Building Equalization Fund, to aid school districts in acquiring buildings. Removed term "voluntary" from Oklahoma School Consolidation and Annexation Act. http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/2009-10bills/SB/SB1169_ENR.RTF
Title: S.B. 1169
Source: http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us
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| TX | Signed into law 05/2009 | P-12 | Bars district policies from the order in which an employee may use certain types of personal and sick leave. http://www.legis.state.tx.us/tlodocs/81R/billtext/pdf/SB00522F.pdf
Title: S.B. 522
Source: www.legis.state.tx.us
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| TX | Signed into law 05/2009 | P-12 | Requires districts to allow an employee reporting a grievance to make an audio recording of any meeting in which the grievance is investigated or discussed. http://www.legis.state.tx.us/tlodocs/81R/billtext/pdf/HB02512F.pdf
Title: H.B. 2512
Source:
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| AR | Signed into law 04/2009 | P-12 | Includes in the information which a school district must make available on its website, or the website of the school district's education service cooperative, minutes of regular and special meetings of the school board, the school district budget, a breakdown of monthly expenses, and certain information regarding school district employee contracts; relates to the powers and duties of the board of directors of each school district; relates to school district personnel policies and contracts.
http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2009/R/Acts/Act1180.pdf
Title: H.B. 1940
Source: http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us
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| HI | Signed into law 04/2009 | P-12 | Repeals the district business and fiscal officer positions within the department of education. In lieu of these positions, the legislature has provided for one business manager position in each of the complex areas to support the schools and officers within each complex. http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/session2009/Bills/SB163_.HTM
Title: S.B. 163
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| ID | Signed into law 04/2009 | P-12 | Amends existing law relating to school districts to remove a mandatory duty of the State Board of Education and to provide certain discretionary authority to the state board regarding lapsed school districts. Chapter 88
http://www.legislature.idaho.gov/legislation/2009/H0193PrinterFriendly.htm
Title: H.B. 193
Source: http://www.legislature.idaho.gov
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| MT | Signed into law 04/2009 | P-12 | Clarifies the ability of school districts to share superintendents and principals.
Title: S.B. 173
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| NH | Signed into law 04/2009 | P-12 | Permits a school board to vote to add one or more high school students as members of the board and, when there is more than one high school in the school district, allows the school board to determine a procedure for rotating student representation on the board.
http://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/legislation/2009/HB0074.html
Title: H.B. 74
Source: http://www.gencourt.state.nh.us
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| NM | Signed into law 04/2009 | P-12 | Allows regional education cooperatives to provide education-related services to nonmembers; allows cooperatives to apply for and receive government and private funding for educational programs; changes accountability procedures.
http://nmlegis.gov/Sessions/09%20Regular/final/HB0197.pdf
Title: H.B. 197
Source: http://nmlegis.gov
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| NV | Signed into law 04/2009 | P-12 | Amends existing law which requires the board of trustees of each school district to notify the postprobationary and probationary employees who are employed by the board of trustees to notify those employees, on or before a specified date of each year, of the reemployment status of those employees for the next school year; temporarily delays the statutory deadline for notifying school employees of their reemployment status. Chapter 18
http://leg.state.nv.us/75th2009/Bills/AB/AB542_EN.pdf
Title: A.B. 542
Source: http://www.leg.state.nv.us/
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| MS | Signed into law 03/2009 | P-12 | Relates to school district accreditation levels; revises accreditation terminology.
http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2009/pdf/SB/2300-2399/SB2308SG.pdf
Title: S.B. 2308
Source: http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us
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| MS | Signed into law 03/2009 | P-12 | Relates to school boards; requires elected members to be elected by majority vote and hold runoffs three weeks later.
http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2009/pdf/HB/0800-0899/HB0877SG.pdf
Title: H.B. 877
Source: http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us
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| SD | Signed into law 03/2009 | P-12 | Requires school districts to keep contiguous boundaries when reorganizing; permits exceptions.
http://legis.state.sd.us/sessions/2009/Bills/SB38ENR.pdf
Title: S.B. 38
Source: http://legis.state.sd.us/
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| MI | Signed into law 01/2009 | P-12 | Provides for Michigan-based business preference in bid process for school contracting except for food purchasing; provides that the policy may provide for a preference based on the status of the primary contractor or subcontractors or both; relates purchasing by school districts, intermediate school districts and public school academies.
http://www.legislature.mi.gov/documents/2007-2008/publicact/pdf/2008-PA-0540.pdf
Title: H.B. 5639
Source: http://www.legislature.mi.gov
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| NJ | Signed into law 12/2008 | P-12 | Permits board of trustees of school district pension fund in counties of the first class to invest 10 percent of funds in capital stocks or other securities issued by companies of foreign countries.
http://www.njleg.state.nj.us/2008/Bills/S2000/1605_R1.PDF
Title: S.B. 1605
Source: http://www.njleg.state.nj.us
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| NY | Adopted 12/2008 | P-12 | Amends rules to require holders of public librarian professional certificates issued after a certain date to complete professional development.
Title: Title 8 NYCRR 90.7
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| GA | Adopted 10/2008 | P-12 | Amends rule to address processing of plans and specifications for public school construction for the board. Specifies that rule must apply to all public school construction projects regardless of project funding source unless certain exemptions apply.
http://www.doe.k12.ga.us/_documents/doe/legalservices/160-5-4-.15.pdf
Title: GAC 160-5-4-.15
Source: www.doe.k12.ga.us
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| IL | Signed into law 10/2008 | P-12 | Revises laws requiring contracts involving an expenditure in excess of a specified amount or lower to be awarded to the lowest responsible bidder. Relates to repair, maintenance, remodeling, renovation, or construction of a single project. Removes an exception to the requirement that the Chicago School District let certain contracts by competitive bidding for the preparation and delivery of food and ancillary services. Includes community colleges and student transportation. http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/95/SB/PDF/09500SB2293lv.pdf
Title: S.B. 2293
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| NY | Signed into law 10/2008 | P-12 | Creates new part III (sections 2050 through 2054) of article 41 of the education code. Provides that a lawyer may not simultaneously be an independent contractor and an employee of a district or board of cooperative educational services (BOCES). Provides that a lawyer who is not an employee of a district or BOCES may not seek to be or be considered an employee for purposes of compensation, health insurance, pension and all other employment-related benefits. Provides that any lawyer who violates these provisions is liable for a civil penalty of up to three times the charges and fees for contracted services or salary the lawyer received from the district or BOCES for legal services, and may be enjoined from continuing such violation. Provides that any lawyer who knowingly (1) seeks to be or is considered an employee for purposes of compensation, health insurance, pension and all other employment-related benefits or (2) falsifies or permits to be falsified retirement system records to obtain retirement benefits, is guilty of a class E felony.
Requires every district and BOCES to annually file with the department, comptroller and attorney general a report specifying all lawyers providing legal services to the district or BOCES, whether the district or BOCES hired such lawyers as employees, and all compensation for legal services.
Amends subdivision 3 of section 2601-a of the education law to specify that the administrative component of every district's annual budget must include all compensation, salaries and benefits of all school administrators and supervisors, including business administrators, superintendents, and deputy, assistant, associate or other superintendents under all existing employment contracts or collective bargaining agreements. http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?bn=S08699&sh=t
Title: S.B. 8699
Source: assembly.state.ny.us
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| CA | Vetoed 09/2008 | P-12 | Prohibits a statement or document that is false or unsubstantiated from being placed in the personnel records of a classified employee of a local educational agency. Allows such employee to challenge, and have removed such a statement or document. Requires that the process be governed by the grievance procedure of the agency as established by a collective bargaining agreement or the agency itself. Excludes records obtained prior to employment or in connection with an examination.
http://www.assembly.ca.gov/acs/acsframeset2text.htm
Title: A.B. 2167
Source: http://www.assembly.ca.gov
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| CO | Rule Adoption 09/2008 | P-12 | Relates to the development, expansion, implementation, and management of regional service areas. On or before December 1, 2008, the State Board, in consultation with the Department, school districts, and boards of cooperative services, shall divide the state into twelve regional service areas throughout the state. Each regional service area shall consist of at least two school districts and one or more boards of cooperative services. Each plan for a regional service area shall be administered by a locally appointed regional service council.
http://www.sos.state.co.us/CCR/NumericalSubDocList.do?deptID=4&deptName=300%20Department%20of%20Education&agencyID=109&agencyName=301%20Colorado%20State%20Board%20of%20Education&ccrDocID=2999&ccrDocName=1%20CCR%20301-76%20RULES%20RELATED%20TO%20THE%20DEVELOPMENT%20EXPANSION%20IMPLEMENTATION%20AND%20MANAGEMENT%20OF%20THE%20REGIONAL%20SERVICE%20AREAS
Title: 1 CCR 301-76
Source: http://www.sos.state.co.us/
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| IL | Signed into law 08/2008 | P-12
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Community College | Provides that a county, municipality, school district, community college district or other unit of local government may either individually or jointly own and operate a wind generation turbine farm that reduces energy or other operating costs. Provides that such entity may ask for the assistance of any state agency, the department of commerce and economic opportunity, the state power agency or the environmental protection agency in obtaining financing for a wind generation turbine farm. http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/95/HB/PDF/09500HB4646lv.pdf
Title: H.B. 4646
Source:
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| IL | Signed into law 08/2008 | P-12 | Makes modifications to district consolidations and the establishment of collaborative high schools. Makes adjustments to how revenues are established. http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/95/SB/PDF/09500SB2487lv.pdf
Title: S.B. 2487
Source: www.ilga.gov
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| HI | Vetoed 07/2008 | P-12 | Creates the facilities alignment commission to establish criteria for the selection of public schools to be consolidated or closed, and to recommend to the board of education a list of schools for consolidation or closure. By June 30, 2009, requires the department of education to submit to the commission a school facilities plan based on the department's assessment of the projected student enrollment in specified areas. By December 31, 2009, requires the commission to establish the criteria for selecting schools that will be consolidated or closed. Requires the commission, prior to finalization of the school alignment selection criteria, to hold public hearings to receive public response to the commission's proposed criteria.
By February 28, 2010, based on the department's school facilities plan and the commission's final school alignment selection criteria, requires the commission to develop a preliminary list of schools to be consolidated or closed. Requires the commission to hold public hearings on the proposed closures by August 31, 2010, and to submit to the legislature prior to the convening of the 2011 regular session a report of its findings and conclusions, including a final list of recommendations for schools to be consolidated or closed.
Allows the legislature to disapprove these recommendations only in their entirety. If no legislative disapproval occurs, requires the board of education to comply with these recommendations during the 2012-2013 school year.
Bill text: http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/session2008/Bills/HB2972_CD1_.htm
Governor's veto message: http://hawaii.gov/gov/leg/2008-session/veto-messages/HB2972%20SOBJ.pdf
Title: H.B. 2972
Source: www.capitol.hawaii.gov
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| IL | Signed into law 07/2008 | P-12 | Requires each school district to periodically review its procurement procedures on the purchase of products and supplies. Requires the school district to seek out products and supplies containing recycled materials and to ensure that purchased products and supplies are reusable, durable, or made from recycled materials, if economically and practically feasible. Makes changes concerning the requirements for recycled high grade printing and writing paper.
Requires each school district to periodically review its procedures on solid waste management. Provides that those waste reduction procedures must be designed to, when economically and practically feasible, recycle the school district's waste stream, including landscape waste, computer paper, and white office paper. Provides that the waste reduction procedures must be designed to achieve, before July 1, 2020, at least a 50% reduction in the amount of solid waste that is generated by the school district. http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/95/HB/PDF/09500HB4159lv.pdf
Title: H.B. 4159
Source: www.ilga.gov/legislation
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| LA | Signed into law 06/2008 | P-12 | Removes exception for Orleans Parish relative to requirements that a local public school superintendent serve as the treasurer of certain school funds and perform specified duties. http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=495037
Title: H.B. 305
Source: www.legis.state.la.us
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| LA | Signed into law 06/2008 | P-12 | Provides that no school employee can be required by any local public school board, the state board of elementary and secondary education, or the state department of education to complete paperwork if the information provided for in such paperwork is reasonably and readily available from another source. http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=495900
Title: H.B. 657
Source: www.legis.state.la.us
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| LA | Signed into law 06/2008 | P-12 | Permits a parent of more than one child born at the same birth event to request that such children initially be placed in the same classroom or in separate classrooms. Specifies that such request must be granted. Requires a review of the placement decision after the end of the first grading period. Permits modification of the placement under certain circumstances. Limits applicability to children enrolled in a public elementary school through the second grade. http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=503379
Title: H.B. 1247
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| LA | Signed into law 06/2008 | P-12 | Authorizes school bus warranty repair work to be performed by repair facilities, authorized by the manufacturer or distributor, that are not school bus dealers. Clarifies that manufacturers may authorize that warranty and other repair or maintenance services be performed at any location of a motor vehicle dealer that holds a franchise from any affiliate or subsidiary of the manufacturer. http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=503348
Title: H.B. 197
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| NJ | Signed into law 06/2008 | P-12
Postsec.
Community College | Allows local boards of education and county colleges to enter into contracts for a specified number of years for energy conservation or provision of renewable energy production at buildings owned by such entities.
http://www.njleg.state.nj.us/2008/Bills/A1000/844_S1.PDF
Title: A.B. 844
Source: http://www.njleg.state.nj.us
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| OK | Signed into law 06/2008 | P-12 | Allows school districts to provide space in a school district building or on school district property to school foundations for office or business purposes in exchange for the financial benefits provided to the district by the foundation.
http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/2007-08bills/HB/hb2935_enr.rtf
Title: H.B. 2935
Source: http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us
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| TN | Signed into law 06/2008 | P-12 | Requires each local education agencies' director of schools to submit an annual personnel report to the department.
http://www.legislature.state.tn.us/bills/currentga/Chapter/PC1102.pdf
Title: S.B. 3409
Source: http://www.legislature.state.tn.us
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| AL | Signed into law 05/2008 | P-12 | Relates to competitive bidding on contracts of certain state and local agencies. Increases the minimum amount of contracts subject to competitive bid. Includes city and county boards of education in the list of awarding authorities that may establish local preference zones. Changes from mandatory to permissive the furnishing of a bid bond by a bidder. Provides the authority may make purchases or contracts through a reverse auction procedure.
Title: H.B. 442
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| CO | Signed into law 05/2008 | P-12 | Concerns the creation of a system of Regional Service Cooperatives throughout the state to support economic efficiencies in the delivery of effective public education services. Expands existing regional services areas from 8 to 12, including representation by community colleges, teachnical colleges, higher education institutions, early childhood councils, and businesses. Also expands the types of services provided by cooperatives.
http://www.leg.state.co.us/clics/clics2008a/csl.nsf/fsbillcont3/35AFBA7E1B24C325872573680052EEB6?open&file=038_enr.pdf
Title: S.B. 38
Source: http://www.leg.state.co.us/
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| KS | Signed into law 05/2008 | P-12 | Provides that a student enrolled in a district and attending both a non-virtual school and a virtual school must be counted as that proportion of one pupil (to the nearest one-tenth) that the student's attendance at the non-virtual school bears to full-time attendance. Provides that a student enrolled in a district and attending special education and related services and also attending a virtual school must be counted as that proportion of one pupil (to the nearest one-tenth) that the student's attendance at the non-virtual school bears to full-time attendance.
Repeals and replaces definition of virtual school.
Repeals and replaces K.S.A. 72-6455 regarding each district's high density at-risk pupil weighting. Creates new section for districts with enrollments of at least 40% but less than 50% at-risk students. Provides that each eligible district's medium density at-risk pupil weighting must be determined by the state board by multiplying the number of at-risk pupils by .06. Provides that if a school district becomes ineligible for medium density at-risk pupil weighting because enrollment of at-risk pupils in the district falls below the minimum threshold, the medium density at-risk pupil weighting of the district must be the greater of: (1) The medium density at-risk pupil weighting in the current school year; (2) the medium density at-risk pupil weighting in the prior school year; or (3) the average of the
medium density at-risk pupil weighting in the current school year and the preceding two school years. Provides that the medium density at-risk pupil weighting provisions expire on June 30, 2011.
Establishes the special education funding task force, and requires the first meeting of the task force to be held on or before August 1, 2008. Directs the special education funding task force to:
(1) Study and make recommendations for changes in the existing formula for funding of special education and related services including medicaid replacement state aid
(2) Conduct hearings and receive and consider suggestions from teachers, parents, the department of education, the state board of education, other governmental officers and agencies and the general public concerning funding for special education and related services
(3) Make and submit reports to the legislature on the work of the task force concerning recommendations of the task force. Provides that such reports must also include recommendations for legislative changes and must be submitted to the legislature before the start of each year's legislative session.
Provides that the task force shall cease to exist on June 30, 2011.
Establishes new section regarding medicaid replacement state aid. Directs the state board to designate a portion of the special education services state aid appropriation as medicaid replacement state aid. Provides that the amount so designated may not exceed $9,000,000 in any school year. Provides that each school district is entitled to medicaid replacement state aid. Provides a formula for calculating each district's medicaid replacement state aid.
Repeals and replaces K.S.A. 72-6445a regarding state financial aid for any district formed by consolidation
http://www.kslegislature.org/bills/2008/531.pdf
Title: S.B. 531
Source: www.kslegislature.org
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| AZ | Signed into law 04/2008 | P-12 | Concerns voting by residents of unorganized territories in school district elections; provides procedures for cases in which the adjacent school district is a common school district that is within the boundaries of a union high school district, and for cases in which it is outside those boundaries. Chapter 27
http://www.azleg.gov/DocumentsForBill.asp?Bill_Number=SB1172
Title: S.B. 1172
Source: http://www.azleg.gov
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| ME | Signed into law 04/2008 | P-12 | Removes language from the regional school unit authorization laws requiring the merger of bargaining units on a regional school unit-wide basis and enacts new provisions preserving existing bargaining units, existing collective bargaining agents and existing collective bargaining obligations; extends the deadline for the merger of bargaining units represented by different collective bargaining agents.
http://janus.state.me.us/legis/LawMakerWeb/externalsiteframe.asp?ID=280026143&LD=1931&Type=1&SessionID=7
Title: S.B. 738
Source: http://janus.state.me.us/legis/
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| ME | Signed into law 04/2008 | P-12 | Corrects the laws governing the reorganization of school administrative units; corrects the laws pertaining to the authority of school administrative units to raise and appropriate funds for adult education programs; replaces provisions that were repealed pursuant to Public Law that are related to the closure of an elementary school within a school administrative district or a community school district.
Title: H.B. 1658A
Source: http://janus.state.me.us/house/
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| ME | Signed into law 04/2008 | P-12 | Relates to school administrative unit reorganization; relates to school budgets, the election and terms of unit board members, the apportionment process, local school committees, regional planning committees, tuition where there is no elementary or secondary school, special education subsidies, smaller school units, and plans for alternative organizational structures under the school reorganization law.
http://www.state.me.us/legis/senate/
Title: S.B. 931A
Source: http://www.state.me.us/legis/senate/
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| MS | Signed into law 04/2008 | P-12
Postsec. | Increases and authorizes annual experience salary increments for teachers fore up to 35 years of experience for all certificate levels, to be phased-in over a two-year period. Commits state funding for mentor teachers that provide services to beginning teachers in all grades. Authorizes school districts affected by Hurricane Katrina to borrow funds and issue promissory notes to the Federal Government under the community disaster loan program.
http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2008/pdf/SB/2100-2199/SB2176SG.pdf
Title: S.B. 2176
Source: http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us
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| UT | Signed into law 03/2008 | P-12 | Requires all public school buildings and grounds to be made available as civic centers to district residents for supervised recreational activities and meetings. Requires local boards to adopt policies for the use of these civic centers. Requires a local board to allow use of a civic center unless it determines such use interferes with a school function or purpose. Requires local boards to ensure that school administrators are trained about and properly implement provisions on the use of school buildings as civic centers. http://le.utah.gov/~2008/bills/hbillenr/hb0332.pdf
Title: H.B. 332
Source: le.utah.gov
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| WA | Signed into law 03/2008 | P-12 | Adds first-class school districts to the provisions of existing law that allow the dissolution of a directors' school district, which requires a signed petition of 20% of eligible voters to pose the question of dissolution to the voters. If approved, first-class districts must have a maximum of two at-large positions and a minimum of three director districts.
http://apps.leg.wa.gov/documents/billdocs/2007-08/Pdf/Bills/Session%20Law%202008/6183.SL.pdf
Title: S.B. 6183
Source: www.leg.wa.gov
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| WA | Signed into law 03/2008 | P-12 | Requires that, instead of being elected, members of regional committees (responsible for approving and disapproving proposals to change school district organization) are to be appointed by the educaitonal service districts (ESD). In cases where school districts are affected by a change in organization in two ESDs, jurisdiction is given to the ESD and regional committee of the district with the largest amount of students. Also, regional committees are required to consider the impact of the Growth Management Act and urban growth areas, city boundaries, and master planned communities when deliberating about school district boundaries and reorganization.
http://apps.leg.wa.gov/documents/billdocs/2007-08/Pdf/Bills/Session%20Law%202008/2635-S2.SL.pdf
Title: H.B. 2635
Source: http://www.leg.wa.gov/legislature
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| NM | Signed into law 02/2008 | P-12
Community College
Postsec. | Relates to elections; allows community college elections to be held in conjunction with school district elections.
http://legis.state.nm.us/Sessions/08%20Regular/final/HB0249.pdf
Title: H.B. 249
Source: http://legis.state.nm.us/LCS/default.asp
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| MI | Signed into law 01/2008 | P-12 | Specifies requirements and procedures for district consolidation with respect to types of schools, finances, special education students, approval, etc.
http://www.legislature.mi.gov/documents/2007-2008/publicact/pdf/2008-PA-0001.pdf
Title: S.B. 703 (sec. 605)
Source: http://www.legislature.mi.gov/
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| NJ | To governor 12/2007 | P-12 | Permits the consolidation of a county vocational school district and a county special services school district into a single school district.
http://www.njleg.state.nj.us/2006/Bills/PL07/222_.PDF
Title: S.B. 460
Source: http://www.njleg.state.nj.us
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| LA | Adopted 11/2007 | P-12 | Amends sections of Bulletin 741 - Handbook for School Administrators.
503: Adds business manager to the list of certified personnel a district is required to hire. This addition was required by a new state statute.
2305: Requires schools to have an educational program commemorating Constitution Day. This addition to policy is based on federal law.
http://doa.louisiana.gov/osr/reg/0711/0711.doc#_Toc183230287
Title: LAC 28:CXV.503, 2305
Source: doa.louisiana.gov
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| MI | Signed into law 09/2007 | P-12 | Relates to a study by a school district concerning opportunities for sharing services with other providers of similar services, such as an intermediate school district, other school districts, units of local government and other programs to achieve cost savings; requires a report of costs per pupil; provides for purchasing of local school busing, contracts and human resources through intermediate school districts; includes pupil transportation, procurement, technology and child nutrition.
http://www.legislature.mi.gov/documents/2007-2008/publicact/pdf/2007-PA-0063.pdf
Title: H.B. 4592
Source: Michigan Legislature
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| IL | Signed into law 08/2007 | P-12
Postsec.
Community College | Amends the Whistleblower Act. Provides that an "employer" as defined in the act includes:
(1) A political subdivision of the state
(2) A unit of local government
(3) A school district, combination of school districts, or governing body of a joint agreement of any type formed by two or more school districts
(4) A community college district, state college or university, or any state agency whose major function is providing educational services
(5) Any authority including a department, division, bureau, board, commission, or other agency of these entities
(6) Any person acting within the scope of his or her authority on behalf of those entities in dealing with its employees.
Deletes an exemption for government entities. Prohibits retaliation. Adds to list of false claims for which a person is liable for penalties.
http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/95/HB/PDF/09500HB0742lv.pdf
Title: H.B. 742
Source: /www.ilga.gov/legislation
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| IL | Signed into law 08/2007 | P-12 | Regulates how the positions at school facilities being deactivated that are held by educational support personnel employees at the time of the deactivation are to be transferred to the control of the board or boards that will be receiving the district's students, with respect to the deactivation of school facilities.
http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/95/HB/PDF/09500HB1847lv.pdf
Title: H.B. 1847
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| IL | Signed into law 08/2007 | P-12 | Encourages school boards to allow community organizations to use school facilities during non-school hours. Provides that if a school board allows a community organization to use school facilities during non-school hours, the board must adopt a formal policy governing the use of school facilities by community organizations during non-school hours. http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/95/SB/PDF/09500SB0538lv.pdf
Title: S.B. 538
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| NY | Signed into law 08/2007 | P-12 | Relates to state aid for school library systems; provides additional aid to school library systems affected by boards of cooperative education services (BOCES) mergers. http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?bn=S04476&sh=t
Title: S.B. 4476
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| UT | Signed into law 08/2007 | P-12 | This bill modifies a provision relating to requirements imposed on interlocal agreement participants that enter into an interlocal agreement to create a new school district.
http://le.utah.gov/~2007S1/bills/hbillenr/hb1002.pdf
Title: H.B. 1002
Source: http://le.utah.gov
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| UT | Signed into law 08/2007 | P-12 | Modifies 53A-2-118.1. This bill: lowers the population threshold for cities that are allowed to create a school district matching city boundaries; and modifies a provision relating to the allocation of school buildings and associated property.
http://le.utah.gov/~2007S1/bills/hbillenr/hb1004.pdf
Title: H.B. 1004
Source: http://le.utah.gov
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| UT | Signed into law 08/2007 | P-12 | Amends Section 53A-2-118. Relates to the creation of a new school district; adds an exception to the requirement that a proposed new school district include the entire boundaries of each city or town that participates in an interlocal agreement for the creation of a new school district, so that a city or town may include some but not all of the area within its boundaries if the portion to be included is within the same school district as the other interlocal agreement participants and the area to be excluded is in another school district; provides that a city or town located in more than one county that participates in an interlocal agreement to create a new school district as to some but not all of the area within the city or town under the preceding exception may not be considered to cross county lines for purposes of a prohibition against a proposed new school district crossing county lines; clarifies that a new school district may be created from multiple existing school districts; clarifies the election provisions applicable to an election for the creation of a new school district; authorizes an individual residing within a new school district to elect to enroll in a secondary school located within another school district under certain circumstances; modifies provisions related to a required feasibility study for proposals to create a new school district; and modifies the time within which requests for the creation of a new school district are required to be certified.
http://le.utah.gov/~2007S1/bills/hbillenr/hb1001.pdf
Title: H.B. 1001
Source: http://le.utah.go
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| NC | Signed into law 07/2007 | P-12 | Permits local boards of education to provide for an administrative initial screening of pupil reassignment appeals.
http://www.ncga.state.nc.us/Sessions/2007/Bills/House/HTML/H488v0.html
Title: H.B. 488
Source: http://www.ncga.state.nc.us
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| NH | Signed into law 07/2007 | P-12 | Allows a parent or guardian of twins or other multiples to request a classroom placement for the children. Provides that a parent or guardian of twins or other multiples in elementary school may request that the twins or multiples be placed in the same classroom or in separate classrooms. Provides that this request shall be granted unless the principal decides that a different placement is necessary.
http://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/legislation/2007/SB0078.html
Title: S.B. 78
Source: http://www.gencourt.state.nh.us
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| OR | Signed into law 07/2007 | P-12 | Defines large school district for purposes of provisions relating to school facility planning; modifies provisions regarding school facility planning with a city or county; extends the length of a school facility plan; revises the required elements of a school facility plan; removes the provision providing that school capacity cannot be the sole basis for the approval or denial of a residential development application.
http://www.leg.state.or.us/07reg/measpdf/sb0300.dir/sb0336.en.pdf
Title: S.B. 336
Source: http://www.leg.state.or.us
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| OR | Signed into law 07/2007 | P-12 | Authorizes certain school districts to contract with qualified private alternative education programs to provide services to homeschooled children; directs the Board of Education to adopt formula for calculation of amount of funding to be received by programs from State School Fund distributions.
During the 2007-2009 biennium, requries the legislative interim committees on revenue to conduct a study of the adequacy of funding of small school districts and small education service districts. The committees are to examine: (a) The relationship between small school districts and education service districts; (b) Whether the additional amounts received by small school districts that are attributable to statutory provisions and if, when combined with other funding, are adequate to provide sufficient funding for those small school districts; (c) What types of small school districts are not being provided adequate funding; and (d) The long term effects of not providing small school districts and small education service districts with adequate funding. Requires the legislative interim committees on revenue to make recommendations.
http://www.leg.state.or.us/07reg/measpdf/hb2000.dir/hb2040.en.pdf
Title: H.B. 2040
Source: http://www.leg.state.or.us
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| RI | Passed 07/2007 | P-12 | (Joint Resolution)Would create an eleven (11) member special legislative commission whose purpose it would be to make a comprehensive study of the consolidation of Rhode Island's school districts, and who would report back to the General Assembly no later than May 1, 2008 and whose life would expire on February 1, 2009.
Title: H.B. 5766
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| AZ | Signed into law 06/2007 | P-12 | Relates to the new school facilities fund; provides that a unified school district may be eligible under certain circumstances; provides that the commission shall review all school districts that transport all their pupils to another school district for instruction and shall consider combining these school districts with new or existing unified school districts; provides for consideration of a superintendent contract buy-out. Chapter No. 283
http://www.azleg.gov/DocumentsForBill.asp?Bill_Number=SB1164
Title: S.B. 1164
Source: http://www.azleg.gov
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| LA | Signed into law 06/2007 | P-12 | Grants the Recovery School District the same authority to procure services and property afforded to a city, parish, or other local public school system. http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=449273
Title: S.B. 154
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| ME | Signed into law 06/2007 | P-12 | Allows a school administrative unit that is a municipality or school administrative district to combine with another school administrative district to create a larger school administrative district.
http://www.mainelegislature.org/legis/bills/billpdfs/LD091001.pdf
Title: H.B. 685; LD 216
Source: Maine Legislature
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| ME | Signed into law 06/2007 | P-12 | Allows a school administrative unit that is a municipality or school administrative district to combine with another school administrative district to create a larger school administrative district; permits public schools in the Lower Kennebec River area to achieve efficiency and improve quality.
http://janus.state.me.us/legis/LawMakerWeb/externalsiteframe.asp?ID=280023577&LD=910&Type=1&SessionID=7
Title: H.B. 685
Source: Maine Legislature
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| NH | Signed into law 06/2007 | P-12 | Establishes a special procedure for withdrawal from certain cooperative school districts. Establishes a commission to study the procedure for withdrawal from a cooperative school district.
http://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/legislation/2007/HB0914.html
Title: H.B. 914
Source: http://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/
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| IN | Signed into law 05/2007 | P-12 | From Center for Evaluation & Education Policy: Appropriates money for state agencies and makes other distributions. Specifies a school funding formula. Requires a study of the efficiency and effectiveness of charter schools. Changes references from vocational education to career and technical education. Creates a prekindergarten pilot program. Increases tuition support by approximately 3.7% in FY2008 and 3.6% in FY2009. Funds the Early Literacy Intervention Grant and the Reading Diagnostic Assessment programs at the continued level of $3.7 million/year and $1 million/year, respectively. Increases textbook reimbursement from $19.9 million to $39.9 million. Funds Full-Day Kindergarten at $33.5 million in FY2008 and $58.5 million in FY2009 with a cap of $2,500 per FDK student. Non-English Speaking Program funds were increased by $6.2 million to $6.9 million/year. Gifted and Talented Program funds were increased by $7.18 million to a level of $12.78 million/year. Testing and Remediation monies were increased by $10 million to a total of $41 million/year, while GQE Remediation funds remained level at $4.9 million/year. Creates funding of up to $100,000/year for school consolidation studies that school corporations can apply directly to the IDOE to use in order to assess the feasibility of consolidation or merging services with another corporation. Funds the school finance studies conducted by the Center for Evaluation and Education Policy at Indiana University at $140,000/year. Requires a comprehensive study of the efficiency and effectiveness of charter schools in Indiana and commissions the Center for Evaluation and Education Policy to complete the study. Keeps funding for summer school constant at $18.36 million/year. Funds education service centers at $2.32 million/year. Funds the Principals' Leadership Academy at $462,832/year. The Technology Grant Program was funded at $5 million for the biennium. Funds the School
Business Officials Academy at $150,000/year.
Title: H.B. 1001
Source: Center for Evaluation & Education Policy
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| NE | Vetoed 05/2007 | P-12 | Provides for the creation of new Class I school districts. Class I districts may be created pursuant to a plan submitted by an individual or group of individuals. The plan is required to meet specified criteria and must be filed with the school board of the affected Class II, III, or IV school district and the state committee for the reorganization of school districts.
http://uniweb.legislature.ne.gov/FloorDocs/Current/PDF/Final/LB658.pdf
Title: L.B. 658
Source: http://uniweb.legislature.ne.gov/FloorDocs/Current/PDF/Final/LB658.pdf
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| NE | Signed into law 05/2007 | P-12 | Pertains to Class V school districts. (Omaha Public Schools is only class V district as of bill passage.) Provides for the division of a learning community into separate education centers and establishes procedures. Replaces the requirement for Class V school districts to be divided into new school districts with a provision for the creation of education centers within the district. Requires school districts in learning communities to provide enough openings for students residing outside the attendance area of a school such that at least 10% of the students attending the school could reside outside the attendance area. Defines duties and authorities of Class V districts, education centers and learning communities.
http://uniweb.legislature.ne.gov/FloorDocs/Current/PDF/Slip/LB641.pdf
Title: L.B. 641
Source: http://uniweb.legislature.ne.gov
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| OK | Signed into law 05/2007 | P-12 | Adds provision to Campus Security Act: "Public school district" means all free schools supported by public taxation and shall include K-12 schools and technology center schools.
http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/2007-08bills/HB/HB1556_ENR.RTF
Title: H.B. 1556
Source: http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us
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| ME | Signed into law 04/2007 | P-12 | (Resolve) Provides for legislative review of portions of Chapter 28: Closing a School in the Unorganized Territory, a major substantive rule of the Department of Education.
Title: H.B. 35
Source: Maine Legislature
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| MT | Signed into law 04/2007 | P-12 | Revises school district creation laws. Amends section of law pertaining to the transfer of land to or from one district to another.
http://data.opi.mt.gov/bills/2007/billhtml/HB0744.htm
Title: H.B. 744
Source: http://data.opi.mt.gov/
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| ID | Signed into law 03/2007 | P-12 | Revises school district consolidation plan requirements; provides for payment of costs for feasibility studies and plans per school district that proposes to consolidate; provides that the board of school districts newly formed through consolidation may make severance offers to employees; provides limits to such severance offers; provides for an adjustment in the Bond Levy Equalization Support Program. Session Law Chapter 79.
http://www3.state.id.us/oasis/S1067.html
Title: S.B. 1067
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| ND | Signed into law 03/2007 | P-12 | Amends the process for the naming of a school district. The proposed name change (to go before the voters) must include the phrase "school district" or "public school
district" and may include no more than two additional words.
http://www.legis.nd.gov/assembly/60-2007/bill-text/HANM0200.pdf
Title: H.B. 1261
Source: http://www.legis.nd.gov
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| ND | Signed into law 03/2007 | P-12 | Relates to the payment of school district reorganization bonuses; provides a formula for determining the amount of the bonus: (1) Fifty thousand dollars per one hundred-square-mile [259-square-kilometer] block, or a major portion therof, included within the reorganized district and calculated by determining the lesser of the total square miles [kilometers] of the
reorganized district or one thousand four hundred square miles [3625.98 square kilometers], and subtracting from that amount the square miles [kilometers] of the largest district or portion of a district involved in the reorganization; (2) One thousand dollars per student calculated by determining the lesser of the total fall enrollment of the newly reorganized district or seven hundred fifty and subtracting from that amount the fall enrollment in the district or portion of the district that had the largest student population of those districts or portions of districts participating in the reorganization during the school year immediately preceding the effective date of the reorganization; and (3) Fifty thousand dollars for each whole school district that formed the reorganized district.
http://www.legis.nd.gov/assembly/60-2007/bill-text/HALI0200.pdf
Title: H.B. 1178
Source: http://www.legis.nd.gov
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| ND | Signed into law 03/2007 | P-12 | Relates to membership on rural school boards; for districts that have undergone reorganization, the reorganization plan may provide for school board membership
requirements that are different from those specified for other rural boards.
http://www.legis.nd.gov/assembly/60-2007/bill-text/HBCS0300.pdf
Title: H.B. 1305
Source: http://www.legis.nd.gov
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| SD | Signed into law 03/2007 | P-12 | Revises the state aid to education formula and sets funding amounts to reimburse districts that choose to consolidate.
http://www.legis.state.sd.us/sessions/2007/bills/SB157CNF.pdf
Title: S.B. 157
Source: http://www.legis.state.sd.us
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| UT | Signed into law 03/2007 | P-12 | Adds a vote to elect school district board members resulting from the creation of a new school district to the list of special elections that a local political subdivision may call; adds a definition relating to the creation of a new school district; provides a process for certifying the creation of a new school district and establishes the date that the new district is created; clarifies the duties of a new district and the district from which the new district was created with respect to providing educational services; makes exceptions to requirements applicable to a proposal by interlocal agreement participants to create a new school district where the proposal would otherwise geographically isolate an area within a municipality that is served by a separate school district; provides for the election of school district board members of a new school district and of the school district from which the new district was created, and provides for the terms of those members; establishes a process for allocating the property of an existing school district between a newly created district and the school district from which it was created, including: 1) transition teams to represent the new district and the district from which the new district was created, and; 2) a requirement that disputes about the allocation of property be decided by binding arbitration; shifts from the board of a new school district to the board of the district from which the new district was created the responsibility to continue to levy a tax on property in the new district to pay the new district's proportionate share of bonds issued before the new district was created; prohibits a school district board from issuing bonds approved but not issued before the creation of a new district under certain circumstances; authorizes a mayor or the mayor's designee of a municipality that is partly or entirely within the boundaries of a school district to attend and participate in school board meetings; requires local school boards to give notice of board meetings to the mayor or the mayor's designee of each municipality that is partly or entirely within the boundaries of the school district. http://le.utah.gov/~2007/bills/sbillenr/sb0030.htm
Title: S.B. 30
Source: http://www.le.state.ut.us/
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| NJ | Signed into law 12/2006 | P-12 | Requires boards of education to offer elementary school students instruction in gang violence prevention.
http://www.njleg.state.nj.us/bills/BillView.asp
Title: A.B. 1650; S.B. 1749
Source: New Jersey Legislature
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| NE | Legislation Repealed by Voters 11/2006 | P-12 | Gives voters the option of retaining or repealing legislation pertaining to certain dissolved school districts.
http://www.unicam.state.ne.us/pdf/FINAL_LB126_1.pdf
Title: L.B. 126
Source: http://www.unicam.state.ne.us/
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| LA | Approved by voters 09/2006 | P-12 | Proposes a Constitutional amendment to grant to the Central Community School System in East Baton Rouge Parish the same authority granted parishes, including funds for the minimum foundation fund, school books, instructional materials and the raising of local revenues for the support of elementary and secondary schools; provides for equal educational opportunities; prohibits use of state dollars to discriminate in providing educational opportunity for all students.
Title: Amendment 8
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| WY | Rule Adoption 08/2006 | P-12 | Establishes a process to identify and prioritize the relative importance of each school building and facility improvement need on a statewide basis. http://soswy.state.wy.us/RULES/6327.pdf
Title: Chapter 6
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| IL | Signed into law 07/2006 | P-12 | Amends the School Code. Creates a new Article concerning the conversion and formation of school districts. Contains provisions concerning school district conversions, combined school district formation, unit school district formation, partial elementary unit school district formation, petitions, and an election. Increases tax rates for operations and maintenance purposes. Repeals certain sections. Provides for a referendum. http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/94/SB/PDF/09400SB2795lv.pdf
Title: S.B. 2795
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| IL | Signed into law 06/2006 | P-12 | Allows cooperative high schools to receive some of the same supplementary state aid that new districts receive; relates to multiple agreements. http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/94/HB/PDF/09400HB4365lv.pdf
Title: H.B. 4365
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| LA | Signed into law 06/2006 | P-12 | Relates to deconsolidation. Creates Central Community School System and separate governing board as separate from East Baton Rouge Parish School System. http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=398044
Title: H.B. 815
Source: www.legis.state.la.us
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| LA | Signed into law 06/2006 | P-12 | Provides for government immunity of the state and other political subdivisions during and in the aftermath of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. Adds that no student, employee, volunteer, parent, or person attending or visiting a school within an area affected by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita may have a cause of action for damages against the local school district in the affected area for failure to warn, notify, remediate, clean-up, or repair, in its decisions or operations in the aftermath of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, except in the event of gross negligence or willful misconduct on the part of the school district in the affected area. http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=403027
Title: H.B. 892
Source: www.legis.state.la.us
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| LA | Signed into law 06/2006 | P-12 | Authorizes the Recovery School District to sell, exchange, or lease school property or buildings over which it has the rights of ownership to the governing authority of a state board-approved school which has need for property as the result of a hurricane. http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=397833
Title: S.B. 308
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| LA | Signed into law 06/2006 | P-12 | Requires school systems to employ or share by agreement school board business managers or chief financial officers who meet qualifications established by the state board. Gives any business manager or chief financial officer who does not meet the requirements established in state board rules seven years from the date the rules are published to meet the required qualifications. http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=400970
Title: S.B. 539
Source: www.legis.state.la.us
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| CO | Vetoed 05/2006 | P-12 | Concerns school accountability; establishes that, if a school covers more than one school level, it shall be assigned one academic performance rating and one academic growth of students rating and receive one school accountability report.
http://www.leg.state.co.us/clics2006a/csl.nsf/fsbillcont3/7F98372AFBE9CA56872570C7006E5546?Open&file=069_enr.pdf
Title: S.B. 69
Source: Colorado Legislature
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| FL | Signed into law 05/2006 | P-12 | Beginning with the 2006-2007 school year: (a) Each district school board must designate a classroom teacher to serve as the teacher representative to speak on behalf of the district's teachers regarding paperwork and data collection reduction. (b) Each district school board must provide the school community with an efficient method to communicate with the classroom teacher designee regarding possible paperwork and data collection burdens and potential solutions. The teacher designee must annually report his or her findings and potential solutions to the school board. (d) Each district school board must submit its findings and potential solutions to the State Board of Education by September 1 of each year. (e) The State Board of Education must prepare a report of the statewide paperwork and data collection findings and potential solutions and submit the report to the Governor, the President of the Senate, and the Speaker of the House of Representatives by October 1 of 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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| KS | Signed into law 05/2006 | P-12 | Concerns school districts; relates to consolidation, state aid and the assessed valuation of districts and the levying of school taxes; provides for revenue transfers. Increases from two to three years the amount of time that school districts that consolidate may maintain the combined general fund budgets of the two districts. provides that the capital outlay state aid program for the newly consolidated district is based on the state aid percentage of each of the former districts for the year following consolidation and the next two school years. Provides that the percentage will be the highest rate of the former districts. Provides that the same calculation and timeframe is applied to capital improvement state aid.
Bill text: http://www.kslegislature.org/legsrv-bills/showBill.do?id=106932
Conference committee report brief: http://www.kslegislature.org/supplemental/2006/CCRB481.pdf
Title: S.B. 481
Source: www.kslegislature.org
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| KS | Signed into law 05/2006 | P-12 | Relates to school districts; relates to changing board member district boundaries; relates to assessed valuation of school districts.
http://www.kslegislature.org/bills/2006/2585.pdf
Title: H.B. 2585
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| KS | Signed into law 05/2006 | P-12 | Requires districts to report expenditures in the manner required by the state board in order to achieve uniform reporting of expenditures in school district budgets. http://www.kslegislature.org/bills/2006/549.pdf
Title: S.B. 549 - Section 2
Source: www.kslegislature.org
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| KS | Signed into law 05/2006 | P-12 | Directs every district to conduct an assessment of each attendance center's educational needs. Directs the board to use information obtained from such needs assessment when preparing the district budget. Also directs the board to prepare a summary of the budget for the school district. http://www.kslegislature.org/bills/2006/549.pdf
Title: S.B. 549 - Section 26
Source: www.kslegislature.org
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| VT | Signed into law 05/2006 | P-12 | Authorizes local boards to make available school facilities and equipment for specified public purposes if such purposes appear, in the judgment of the board, to be in the best interests of the district and are an efficient, economical, and appropriate use of the facilities and equipment.
Authorizes local boards to enter into contracts with other school boards to provide joint programs, services, facilities, and professional or other staff. Does not permit the designation by a school district that does not maintain a secondary school of another school district's secondary school as the secondary school of the district. http://www.leg.state.vt.us/docs/legdoc.cfm?URL=/docs/2006/acts/ACT182.HTM
Title: H.B. 867 - Section 25
Source: www.leg.state.vt.us
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| AR | Rule Adoption 04/2006 | P-12 | Sets rules governing consolidation or annexation of public school districts and boards of directors of local school districts.
http://www.sos.arkansas.gov/ar_rules/rule_proposed/005.23.06-001P.pdf
Title: AAC 005.23.06
Source: http://www.sos.arkansas.gov/
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| AZ | Signed into law 04/2006 | P-12 | Concerns school district boundary changes; relates to financial impact; provides that during the period that a county school superintendent is considering new school district boundaries, the superintendent shall conduct at least two public meetings at which public testimony is heard and questions are answered; requires a pamphlet and a ballot question that includes the proposed boundaries to be mailed to each household with one or more qualified electors.
http://www.azleg.gov/legtext/47leg/2r/bills/sb1094s.pdf
Title: S.B. 1094
Source: Arizona Legislature
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| MD | Signed into law 04/2006 | P-12
Postsec. | Requires a public body that adjourns an open session to carry out an executive function in a meeting that is not open to the public to include specified information in the minutes of its next open session.
http://mlis.state.md.us/2006rs/bills/hb/hb0698t.pdf
Title: H.B. 698; S.B. 623
Source: Maryland Legislature
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| ME | Signed into law 04/2006 | P-12 | Relates to locally approved school administrative district cost-sharing agreements which were preempted by Public Law 2003, chapter 712, which first became effective for the 2005-06 school fiscal years and caused significant changes in the local financial obligations among the municipalities participating in those school districts. The bill reestablishes the cost-sharing agreement established in 1992 at a referendum election by the voters of Maine School Administrative District No. 40. Private and Special Law No. 38
http://www.mainelegislature.org/legis/bills/LD.asp?LD=1903
Title: H.B. 1344 (also HP 1344 and LD 1903)
Source: Maine Legislative Site
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| VA | Signed into law 04/2006 | P-12 | Provides that any local government or combination of governments within planning district 16 may enter into cooperative agreements with a local school division for the use of school vehicles for public transportation purposes during non-school hours. Such agreements may utilize public or private funds for addressing the costs of the program. An enactment clause provides that if no such agreements are entered into by July 1, 2010, the provisions of the act will expire on July 1, 2010.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?061+ful+CHAP0821
Title: H.B. 1582
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us
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| VT | Signed into law 04/2006 | P-12 | Permits a school district with schools in grades K–8 and that was designated as a supervisory district prior to January 1, 2006 to remain a supervisory district. http://www.leg.state.vt.us/docs/legdoc.cfm?URL=/docs/2006/acts/ACT115.HTM
Title: H.B. 710
Source: www.leg.state.vt.us
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| WV | Signed into law 04/2006 | P-12 | Rewrites §18-2-15a. Directs the state superintendent to conduct a comprehensive study of the programs, governance and administration of regional education service agencies. Requires the study to include
(1) The general structure and specific processes for governance and oversight of the regional education service agencies to ensure efficiency of operations and accountability;
(2) Areas of needed improvements, including any existing limitations or hindrances to improvement;
(3) The powers and duties of state board and state superintendent relating to regional education service agencies;
(4) The qualifications and procedures for selection of agency executive directors;
(5) The selection and supervision of agency staff;
(6) Development of agency budget;
(7) Oversight of agency purchasing and auditing procedures;
(8) Development of programs and delivery of services; and
(9) Procedures to ensure fiscal and programmatic accountability.
Directs the state superintendent to report findings, recommendations and any legislation necessary to effectuate the recommendations, to the Legislative Oversight Commission on Education Accountability by December 1, 2006.
http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Text_HTML/2006_SESSIONS/RS/BILLS/SB127%20SUB1%20enr.htm
Title: S.B. 127
Source: www.legis.state.wv.us
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| ID | Signed into law 03/2006 | P-12 | Amends existing law relating to cooperative service agencies to provide that a cooperative service agency may request its member school districts to authorize a levy not to exceed .1% for the purpose of constructing and maintaining cooperative service agency facilities; to provide for continuation of the levy for additional ten year periods upon approval of district electors. http://www3.state.id.us/oasis/H0705.html#engr
Title: H.B. 705
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| KY | Signed into law 03/2006 | P-12 | Clarifies that a school district may advance a child through the primary program if he or she is at least five but less than six years old; allows the child to be classified as other than a kindergarten student for purposes of funding if the student is determined to have acquired the academic and social skills taught in kindergarten as determined by local board policy. http://www.lrc.ky.gov/RECORD/06RS/SB35/bill.doc
Title: S.B. 35
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| UT | Signed into law 03/2006 | P-12 | Modifies the procedures relating to the creation of a new school district; allows the governing body of certain cities to establish a school district with boundaries contiguous with city boundaries; imposes requirements for the filing and processing of a petition or request to create a new school district; requires the county legislative body to make district boundary changes when a request is made by certain cities; provides for the transfer of property and indebtedness of affected districts. The process may be initiated through a citizens' initiative petition; at the request of the board of the existing district or districts to be affected by the creation of the new district; or [new] at the request of a city within the boundaries of the school district or at the request of interlocal agreement participants. http://www.le.state.ut.us/~2006/bills/hbillenr/hb0077.pdf
Title: H.B. 77
Source: http://www.le.state.ut.us
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| VA | Signed into law 03/2006 | P-12 | Permits personnel files of all school board employees to be produced and maintained in digital or paper format.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?061+ful+CHAP0191
Title: H.B. 434
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us
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| IL | Adopted 02/2006 | P-12 | Provides standards for the conduct of financial audits of regional offices of education and certain educational service centers. http://www.sos.state.il.us/departments/index/register/register_volume30_issue7.pdf (starts page 329 of 520, see esp. 338 of 520)
Title: 74 IAC 420.130, 140, 310, 320, 410, 420, 430, 630, 640, 710, 720
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| OK | Died 02/2006 | P-12 | Directs the Secretary of State to refer to the people for their approval or rejection a proposed amendment to the Oklahoma Constitution; requires a majority vote of all affected school district electors prior to annexation or consolidation; prohibits subsequent election for period of one year if such election fails; provides ballot title; directs filing.
Title: S.J.R. 35
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| SD | Signed into law 02/2006 | P-12 | Makes an $552,209 appropriation to the Department of Education to reimburse school districts for consolidation incentives.
http://legis.state.sd.us/sessions/2006/bills/HB1243enr.pdf
Title: H.B. 1243
Source: http://legis.state.sd.us
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| CA | Vetoed 09/2005 | P-12 | An act to add Article 8 (commencing with Section 41580) to Chapter 3.2 of Part 24 of the Education Code, relating to school finance. - School Transportation Block Grant. This bill requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to apportion block grant funds to a school district to cover costs for special education transportation and costs associated with rural and isolated locations.
Title: H.B. 1110
Source: StateNet
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| CA | Signed into law 09/2005 | P-12 | This bill specifies requirements and procedures that follow from school district reorganization and consolidation, including school board elections and tax revenue and state aid.
Title: H.B. 1642
Source: StateNet
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| IL | Signed into law 07/2005 | P-12 | Allows for the deactivation of an elementary school facility in the same manner as the deactivation of a high school facility, when it is determined such students would be best served by being sent to schools in other districts. Effective immediately. http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/publicacts/fulltext.asp?Name=094-0213
Title: H.B. 1324
Source: StateNet
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| PA | Signed into law 07/2005 | P-12 | Amends funding formula for allocating library funds in 2005-2006. Includes a district center restoration amount. http://www2.legis.state.pa.us/WU01/LI/BI/BT/2005/0/HB1304P2562.pdf
Title: H.B. 1304
Source: http://www2.legis.state.pa.us
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| CA | Signed into law 06/2005 | P-12 | Existing law authorizes a county committee on school district organization, except as specified, to establish, rearrange the boundaries of,
and abolish trustee areas, and to make specified changes to the governing boards of school districts. Existing law authorizes a county committee on school district organization to establish a common governing board for a high school district and an elementary school district within the boundaries of the high school district by presenting the issue to the qualified registered voters within those boundaries, as specified.
This bill extends these provisions to the abolition of a common governing board. Existing law provides that a proposal to make any of the changes described above may be initiated by the county committee or made to the county committee either by a petition signed by a certain number of qualified registered voters residing in the district, as provided, or by resolution of the governing board of the district. Requires that the necessary signatures for a petition be obtained within a period of 180 days before the submission of the petition to the county committee.
http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_0801-0850/ab_835_bill_20050630_chaptered.pdf
Title: A.B. 835
Source: http://www.leginfo.ca.gov
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| CT | Signed into law 06/2005 | P-12 | Requires the department to develop and make available guidelines for the management of students with life-threatening food allergies. Requires the guidelines to include: (1) Education and training for school personnel on the management of students with life-threatening food allergies, including training related to the administration of medication with a cartridge injector pursuant to subsection (d) of section 10-212a of the general statutes, (2) procedures for responding to life-threatening allergic reactions to food, (3) a process for the development of individualized health care and food allergy action plans for every student with a life-threatening food allergy, and (4) protocols to prevent exposure to food allergens.
Requires each local and regional board of education, by July 2006, to implement a plan, based on the department guidelines, for the management of students with life-threatening food allergies enrolled in the schools under its jurisdiction. http://www.cga.ct.gov/2005/act/Pa/2005PA-00104-R00SB-01312-PA.htm
Title: S.B. 1312
Source: www.cga.ct.gov
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| IL | Signed into law 06/2005 | P-12 | Establishes procedures for 2 elementary districts in a Class II county school unit to join with a high school district provided specified requirements are met.
Effective immediately. http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/publicacts/fulltext.asp?Name=094-0432
Title: S.B. 1493
Source: www.ilga.gov
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| AZ | Signed into law 05/2005 | P-12 | States that if more than 150 students from a single unorganized territory are attending an adjacent district through open enrollment, the residents of the unorganized territory must be notified that the residents' children no longer qualify for open enrollment and that the residents are required to organize their own district or join an adjoining unified school district. Requires the county superintendent to prepare a ballot question for the next election to determine whether to create a unified school district or join an adjacent district. Establishes procedures for a county superintendent to propose an election to establish a unified school district on unorganized territory or join an adjacent district. States that if the newly established unified school district is unable to provide a complete academic program to students in the district, the districtg may transport students to an adjacent school district. Requires unorganized territory joining an adjacent district to provide the same educational services currently provided to students in the current boundaries of the district to all students within the revised boundaries at the beginning of the next school year.
http://www.azleg.state.az.us/DocumentsForBill.asp?Bill_Number=1199
Title: S.B. 1199
Source: www.azleg.state.az.us
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| FL | Signed into law 05/2005 | P-12 | Establishes the Paper Reduction Task Force for the purpose of recommending strategies to reduce the paperwork required of school districts and school district personnel, with special emphasis given to the reduction of paperwork required of teachers. Provides membership. Requires the task force to develop recommendations to minimize the paperwork burden placed on school districts and school district personnel. Requires the task force to report its findings and recommendations to the legislature by February 1, 2006. States that task force will be abolished upon transmittal of the report to the legislature. http://www.myfloridahouse.gov/loadDoc.aspx?FileName=_h0281er.doc&DocumentType=Bill&BillNumber=0281&Session=2005
Title: H.B. 281
Source: www.myfloridahouse.gov
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| FL | Signed into law 05/2005 | P-12 | Requires each district school board to develop a plan to sponsor a summer nutrition program beginning in the summer of 2006. Provides criteria for operating program sites. Authorizes exemption from sponsoring said program and provides procedures therefor. Authorizes school boards to encourage not-for-profit entities to sponsor said program under certain circumstances. Authorizes the superintendent of schools to collaborate with municipal and county governmental agencies and private, not-for-profit leaders in implementing the plan.
Requires the department to provide to each local board by February 15 of each year a list of local organizations that have filed letters of intent to participate in the summer nutrition program in order for the board to be able to determine how many sites are needed to serve the children and where to place each site.
http://www.myfloridahouse.gov/bills_detail.aspx?Id=15724&iSessionSelectedIndex=1&sBillSubjectText=&sBillNumberText=227&iSponsorSelectedIndex=0&iBillListSelectedIndex=0&sStatueAmendedText=&iBillTypeSelectedIndex=0&iReferredToSelectedIndex=0&iChamberSelectedIndex=2&iBillSearchListPageIndex=0
Title: H.B. 227
Source: www.myfloridahouse.gov
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| HI | Signed into law 05/2005 | P-12 | Authorizes the department of education to set school lunch prices of up to 1/2, rather than 1/3, of the cost of preparing the lunches, to allow for cost recovery from lunch sales. http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/sessioncurrent/bills/hb843_.htm
Title: H.B. 843
Source: www.capitol.hawaii.gov
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| MO | DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR 05/2005 | P-12 | This bill removes the requirement that school districts take an annual census of children up to age 21 with disabilities, removes obsolete provisions concerning funding for the census, and removes references to the repealed sections
Title: H.B. 258
Source: StateNet
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| MT | Signed into law 05/2005 | P-12 | AN ACT ALLOWING A SCHOOL DISTRICT TO PROVIDE EDUCATIONAL SERVICES AT AN OFFSITE INSTRUCTIONAL SETTING TO CHILDREN ATTENDING SCHOOL IN THE SCHOOL DISTRICT; REQUIRING THE SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION TO ADOPT RULES; REVISING THE DEFINITION OF "AVERAGE NUMBER BELONGING" TO CLARIFY THE INCLUSION OF PUPILS EDUCATED OFFSITE; DEFINING "OFFSITE INSTRUCTIONAL SETTING"; AMENDING SECTION 20-1-101, MCA; AND PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE AND AN APPLICABILITY DATE
Title: S.B. 224
Source: StateNet
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| TX | Signed into law 05/2005 | P-12 | From bill analysis: Requires school districts to allow employees an opportunity to apply for an open position by posting notice of job vacancies for at least 10 school days in the following places: on a bulletin board, at a place convenient to the public in the district's central administrative office; on the district's Internet website if the district has a website; and by publishing the position in a newspaper of general circulation in the district. S.B. 387 also allows the district to fill the position in an emergency situation. http://www.capitol.state.tx.us/cgi-bin/tlo/textframe.cmd?LEG=79&SESS=R&CHAMBER=S&BILLTYPE=B&BILLSUFFIX=00387&VERSION=5&TYPE=B
Title: S.B. 387
Source: http://www.capitol.state.tx.us
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| TX | Signed into law 05/2005 | P-12 | From bill analysis: SB 493 states that at least once each even-numbered year the commissioner of education is required to review and, to the extent possible, reduce written reports and other paperwork required of a school district by the agency. The commissioner is to adopt a policy that limits written reports and other paperwork that a principal or classroom teacher may be required by the agency to complete. Additionally, the Education Code is amended in that the commissioner may authorize special accreditation investigations to be conducted in response to repeated complaints submitted to the TEA concerning imposition of excessive paperwork requirements on classroom teachers. http://www.capitol.state.tx.us/cgi-bin/tlo/textframe.cmd?LEG=79&SESS=R&CHAMBER=S&BILLTYPE=B&BILLSUFFIX=00493&VERSION=5&TYPE=B
Title: S.B. 493
Source: http://www.capitol.state.tx.us/
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| WA | to governor 05/2005 | P-12 | Subject to funding, requires school districts, by the 2005-06 school year, to begin school breakfast programs in schools in which more
than 40 percent of the students qualify for free or reduced price lunches. Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to consult with certain education interests when adopting the criteria for waiving school meal requirements.
Title: H.B. 1771
Source: http://www.leg.wa.gov
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| AR | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | An act to restrict school districts from employing relatives of board members.
http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2005/public/HB1867.pdf
Title: H.B. 1867
Source: StateNet
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| AR | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | Creates the Academic Facilities Oversight Committee and the advisory committee on public school academic facilities. http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2005/public/SB591.pdf
Title: S.B. 591
Source: StateNet
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| AR | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | Allows a school district to close an isolated school or part thereof following an annexation or consolidation. Specifies that the state board may approve a motion to close such a school if the closure is in the best interest of the students in the school district as a whole. Bars the state board from allowing an isolated school to be closed if it finds the closure will have any negative impact on desegregation efforts or will violate any valid court order from a court of proper jurisdiction.
http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2005/public/HB1289.pdf
Title: H.B. 1289
Source: www.arkleg.state.ar.us
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| AR | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | Establishes the Arkansas Public School Academic Facilities Program Act. Requires the Division of Public School Academic Facilities and
Transportation to develop a comprehensive Arkansas Public School Academic Facilities Program that includes an academic facilities master plan program; an academic facilities custodial, maintenance, repair, and renovation manual; a public school academic facility manual; a public school academic equipment manual; and an academic facilities distress program. Defines each of the components of the Arkansas Public School Academic Facilities Program and the areas each component must address.
Establishes the provisions of the academic facilites master plan program, which requires every local board to approve a ten-year districtwide facilities master plan for submission to and approval by the division of public school academic facilities and transportation. Specifies the required content of every district's facilities master plan.
Requires the Division of Public School Academic Facilities and Transportation to identify a public school or school district as being in academic facilities distress if the division determines that the public school or school district has engaged in actions or inactions that result in any act or violation determined by the division to jeopardize any academic facility used by a public school or school district, or any other condition of an academic facility or facilities in a public school or school district that is determined by the division to have a detrimental impact on educational services provided by that public school or school district. Requires the division to provide the district with written notification of its being in academic facilities distress. Requires a public school or school district identified as being in facilities distress to develop a facilities improvement plan within 30 days from the date of receipt of the notice and promptly submit the facilities improvement plan to the division for review and approval, and revise the plan on a periodic basis.
Authorizes the division to:
--Provide on-site technical evaluation and assistance to any school district identified to be in facilities distress, and to make recommendations to the district superintendent regarding the care and maintenance of any academic facility in the district. Requires the district in facilities distress to accept such on-site technical evaluation and assistance.
--Require the superintendent to relinquish all administrative authority with respect to the school district and appoint an individual in place of the superintendent to administratively operate the school district under the supervision and approval of the Director of the Division of Public School Academic Facilities and Transportation.
--Suspend or remove all of the current board members and call for the election of a new school board for the district, in which case the school district must reimburse the county board of election commissioners for election costs as otherwise required by law;
--Require the school district to operate without a local board under the supervision of the local superintendent or an individual or panel appointed by the director of the division;
--Return the administration of the school district to the former board or place the administration of the school district in a newly elected school board;
--Require school district staff and employees to attend training in areas of concern for the public school or school district;
--Require a school district to cease immediately all expenditures related to activities not described as part of an adequate education in § 6-20-2302 and place money that would have been spent on the activities into an academic facilities escrow account to be released only upon approval by the division for use in conjunction with a local academic facilities project.
--Notify the public school or school district in writing that the deficiencies regarding academic facilities must be corrected within a
time period designated by the division;
--Petition the state board at any time for the consolidation, annexation, or reconstitution of a school district in facilities distress or take other appropriate action as specified in statute in order to secure and protect the best interest of the educational resources of the state or to provide for the best interests of students in the school district. Allows the state board to consolidate, annex, reconstitute any school district that fails to remove itself from the classification of a school district in facilities distress within two consecutive school years of receipt of notice of identification of facilities distress status by the division; and
--Take any other action allowed by law that is deemed necessary to assist a public school or school district in removing criteria of facilities distress.
Allows a district to appeal the state board's consolidation, annexation, or reconstitution decision to the Commission for Public School Academic Facilities and Transportation. Authorizes the commission to reverse the action of the state board if the commission finds that the school district could not remove itself from facilities distress due to external forces beyond the school district's control.
Allows any student attending a public school district classified as being in facilities distress to be automatically eligible to transfer to another geographically contiguous school district not in facilities distress during the time period that a district is classified as being in facilities distress. Requires transportation costs to be paid by the resident district and the nonresident district to count the student for average daily membership purposes.
Requires the Division of Public School Academic Facilities and Transportation to conduct random unannounced on-site inspections of all academic facilities that have been funded wholly or in part by moneys from the state to ensure compliance with the school district's facilities master plan and, if applicable, the school district's facilities improvement plan. Requires the division to report to the Commission for Public School Academic Facilities and Transportation within 30 days of completion of the on-site inspections.
Establishes a process for a school district to appeal any determination of the Division of Public School Academic Facilities and Transportation to the Commission for Public School Academic Facilities and Transportation.
Repeals Arkansas Code § 6-20-1402 on school districts' authority to borrow money for building or repairing school facilities and Arkansas Code § 6-11-130 on custodial and maintenance care for school facilities.
Full text of bill as enacted: http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2005/public/SB593.pdf
Title: S.B. 593
Source: www.arkleg.state.ar.us
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| AR | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | Ensures the preservation of historical artifacts of school districts subject to consolidation, deconsolidation or reclassification as a conversion charter. http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2005/public/hb2732.pdf
Title: H.B. 2732
Source: StateNet
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| AR | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | Ensures the continuation of efforts to close the achievement gaps in school districts subject to reorganization or reclassification. Requires a receiving or resulting school district in a school consolidation to obtain and retain all student and historical records and documents from the
affected school district, specifically including, but not limited to: (1) Student transcripts; (2) Graduation records; (3) Minutes and other legal documents of the local board of directors; (4) Maps or boundary documents; (5) Sports records, trophies, and awards; (6) Employee records; and (7) Financial records.
http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2005/public/sb1028.pdf
Title: S.B. 1028
Source: www.arkleg.state.ar.us
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| AR | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | Assists resulting school districts with debt relief resulting from a consolidation required by law. http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2005/public/HB2734.pdf
Title: H.B. 2734
Source: StateNet
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| AR | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | Requires the house interim committee on education and the senate interim committee to jointly conduct a study of education service cooperatives relative to instructional improvements and support services to the department of education and local school districts. Requires the committees to complete the study and make their findings and recommendations by October 31, 2006. http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2005/public/hb2645.pdf
Title: H.B. 2645
Source: www.arkleg.state.ar.us
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| AR | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | Incorporates references to the state's Automated Fingerprint Identification System. Expands the definition of "cause" for purposes of waiving or suspending a teacher's license. Among changes to definition, includes knowingly falsifying or directing another to falsify any grade given to a student, whether the grade was given for an individual assignment or examination or at the conclusion of a regular grading period. Deletes references to voluntary surrender of license. Allows state board to determine an applicant for a noncertified position in a district ineligible for employment has pleaded guilty or nolo contendere for specified crimes; is required to pass an examination as a requirement of his or her position and the applicant's completed examination test score was declared invalid because of the applicant's improper conduct; has an expunged or pardoned conviction for any sexual or physical abuse offense committed against a child; knowingly submits or provides false or misleading information or knowingly fails to submit or provide information requested or required by law to the department of education, the state board of education, or the division of legislative audit; or knowingly falsifies or directs another to falsify any grade given to a student, whether the grade was given for an individual assignment or examination or at the conclusion of a regular grading period.
Amends definition of "fraudulent act" in Arkansas Code § 6-17-421.
http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2005/public/sb1044.pdf
Title: S.B. 1044 (sections 1-10)
Source: www.arkleg.state.ar.us
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| AR | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | Amends Arkansas code 6-20-402. Allows a district to terminate a long-term lease agreement at the end of any fiscal year for the district. Requires all school buildings or related facilities to comply with the requirements of the Arkansas School Facility Manual in effect at the time the lease became effective. Permits a district to sublease a school building or facility whenever that building or facility is not being used for educational purposes. Requires rent from a sublease to be placed in the district's general fund; allows rent to be used for any operational or capital purpose. http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2005/public/hb1448.pdf
Title: H.B. 1448
Source: www.arkleg.state.ar.us
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| AR | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | Deletes definitions of "consolidated average daily membership," "consolidated national school lunch student total" and "national school lunch students" from consolidation/reorganization provisions. Deletes provision that no school facility in a school district included in the consolidation list required by § 6-13-1602 may be closed by the state board or a local school board until after completion of an assessment of public school facilities by the Joint Committee on Educational Facilities. Repeals section 6-13-1604 related to administrative consolidation assistance funds and 6-13-1605 on non-impact of reorganization on charter schools.
http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2005/public/sb1044.pdf
Title: S.B. 1044 (sections 21-27)
Source: www.arkleg.state.ar.us
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| AR | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | Requires notification of affected school districts of all planning, development, or redevelopment activity within a municipality or county. http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2005/public/sb1006.pdf
Title: S.B. 1006
Source: StateNet
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| AR | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | This subchapter is known as and may be cited as the "Arkansas Public School Academic Facilities Funding Act." Determines the value of total assesed valuation of taxable real, personal and utility property in the school district.
Establishes the the Academic Facilities Immediate Repair Program to provide school districts with state financial participation for eligible repair projects based on the school district's academic facilities wealth index.
Establishes the Academic Equipment Program to support the purchase of eligible academic equipment based on the school district's academic facilities wealth index.
Establishes the Transitional Academic Facilities Program to provide state financial participation based on a school district's academic facilities wealth index in the form of reimbursement to a school district for eligible new construction projects for which debt is incurred or funds are spent after January 1, 2005, and on or before June 30, 2006. Under the transitional academic facilities program, a school district may proceed with new construction of an academic facility through the expenditure of local resources prior to the school district's eligibility for state financial participation and may apply the expenditure of local resources after January 1, 2005, and on or before June 30, 2006, toward meeting the school district's share of financial participation in the cost of the new construction project when, and if, the school district becomes eligible for state financial participation.
Establishes the Academic Facilities Partnership Program to provide state financial participation based on a school district's academic facilities wealth index in the form of cash payments to a school district for eligible new construction projects.
Establishes the Academic Facilities Catastrophic Program to award state financial participation to a school district based on a school district's academic facilities wealth index for eligible catastrophic repair and new construction projects for the purpose of supplementing insurance or other public or private emergency assistance received by or payable to the school district.
Requires the Division of Public School Academic Facilities and Transportation to establish formulas, to be updated annually, for determining the basic project cost per student for various types of new construction projects, including new academic facilities; additions to existing academic facilities; and major improvements to academic facilities that bring the state of condition or efficiency of the academic facility to a state of condition or efficiency better than the facility's original condition of completeness or efficiency.
Establishes legislative intent that school districts explore collaboration with other districts in pooling equipment, facilities and transportation.
Requires the Division of Public School Academic Facilities and Transportation to develop a program to provide emergency loans to eligible high-growth school districts for assistance with excess debt service requirements.
Allows a school district to appeal any determination of the Division of Public School Academic Facilities and Transportation under the Arkansas Public School Academic Facilities Funding Act to the Commission on Public School Academic Facilities and Transportation.
Effective July 1, 2005, Arkansas Code Title 6, Chapter 20, Subchapter 24 is repealed.
http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2005/public/hb2508.pdf
Title: H.B. 2508
Source: www.arkleg.state.ar.us
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| AR | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | States that the department of education is the sole and official issuer of local education agency numbers to educational entities in the state. Requires these numbers to be issued, activated, deactivated, or changed according to the department's annual schedule.
States that an educational entity is not to be recognized as a public school district or entitled to the rights and privileges of a school district solely because the educational entity has been assigned a local educational number.
http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2005/public/sb1044.pdf
Title: S.B. 1044 (section 20)
Source: www.arkleg.state.ar.us
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| AR | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | Increases the number and availability of social workers in the public schools. http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2005/public/sb1187.pdf
Title: S.B. 1187
Source: StateNet
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| AR | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | Conforms the Arkansas Code to comply with the Arkansas Supreme Court decision in the Lake View case. Requires any school district that was administratively consolidated or administratively annexed under §§6-13-1601 32 through 6-13-1605 to file a written report with the legislature and the department of education on the (1) inclusion of parents in the resulting district's activities, including parent-teacher associations, booster clubs and parent involvement committees; (2) the extent of student participation in extracurricular activities, itemized by each extracurricular activity offered by the district and for each activity indicate which district the student attended prior to reorganization; and (3) the employment status of each administrator by name, gender and race before the annexation or consolidation, which school employed the administrator prior to consolidation, and his or her employment status in the receiving or resulting school district.
Requires resulting school districts to use a state-approved instrument to survey parents and students on: (1) Opportunities for inclusion or participation in the resulting or receiving school district; and (2) The efforts, if any, that were made to include parents from the affected school district in the receiving or resulting school district's activities, including but not limited to parent-teacher associations, booster clubs, and parent involvement committees.
http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2005/public/hb2646.pdf
Title: H.B. 2646
Source: http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us
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| AR | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | Establishes procedures for the preservation, sale and/or disposal of school buildings in school districts that have been consolidated. Allows a district that determines any real estate it owns or controlls is not required for the district's present or anticipated future needs to donate the property to a non-profit organization if donation thereof would serve a beneficial educational service for the students of the district. Adds providing community programs, social enrichment programs, or after-school programs for students who are from the district or to educate pupils from within the donating school district even if other persons in the community or students from outside the district might also benefit to the purposes that such donated property may fill.
States that if the school district donates real property to an entity, the district has right of first refusal to reacquire the real property if the entity decides to sell or otherwise dispose of the real property. States that the school district is not required to compensate the entity for any improvements to real property reacquired in this manner.
http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2005/public/hb2936.pdf
Title: H.B. 2936
Source: www.arkleg.state.ar.us
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| AR | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | Includes guidance counselors and librarians in definition of "teacher" or "teachers" in provisions relating to incentives for teacher recruitment and retention in high-priority districts. Clarifies that all teachers not newly signed to work in a high-priority district must be paid a retention bonus of $2,000 for the 2004-2005 school year as well as at the beginning of each of the next 2 subsequent years if the teacher continues to work in a high-priority district. Clarifies that a teacher not newly signed to work in a high-priority district who voluntarily leaves the district before the end of the 3-year period must pay back the bonus amount on a pro rata basis. Adds that a teacher not newly signed to work in a high-priority district is involuntarily reassigned to a position that is not eligible for bonus pay as part of the program or is dismissed involuntarily by a school district, the teacher is not required to repay the applicable bonus pay. Adds that if a teacher qualified to receive bonus pay as part of this program leaves the district due to a serious medical emergency, the teacher is not obligated to repay the bonus if the teacher provides a written statement from a licensed physician stating that the teacher is unable to work and must terminate his or her employment.
http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2005/public/sb1044.pdf
Title: S.B. 1044 (section 31)
Source: www.arkleg.state.ar.us
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| AZ | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | Permits a school district to sell used equipment to a charter school before the school district attempts to sell or dispose of the equipment by other means.
http://www.azleg.state.az.us/DocumentsForBill.asp?Bill_Number=1223
Title: S.B. 1223
Source: www.azleg.state.az.us
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| AZ | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | Repeals provision granting a school district and its employees immunity from civil liability for the consequences of the good faith adoption and implementation of policies and procedures relating to the health and safety of all pupils participating in district sponsored practice sessions, games or other interscholastic athletic activities, including the provision of water.
Also repeals provision granting a school district and its employees immunity from liability for any good faith actions taken in regard to the state requirement to report to local law enforcement agencies any suspected crime against a person or property that is a serious offense as defined in section 13-604 or that involves a deadly weapon or dangerous instrument or serious physical injury and any conduct that poses a threat of death or serious physical injury to employees, students or anyone on the property of the school.
http://www.azleg.state.az.us/DocumentsForBill.asp?Bill_Number=2368
Title: H.B. 2368
Source: www.azleg.state.az.us
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| AZ | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | Requires the school facilities board to provide school districts with information every two years on improving and maintaining the environmental quality in school buildings. Requires an environmental site assessment before approval of construction or renovation of a school building. Requries school facilities board to not approve a school building project if specified conditions are found in the assessment or building plans. Requires a school district that installed or renovated its HVAC system on or after the effective date of this act to ensure that the system meets specified requirements, and that an HVAC system installed or renovated before the effective date of this act to ensure that the HVAC system is maintained and operated in accordance with the prevailing maintenance and standards at the time of its installation or renovation.
http://www.azleg.state.az.us/DocumentsForBill.asp?Bill_Number=1009
Title: S.B. 1009
Source: www.azleg.state.az.us
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| AZ | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | Requires school employees' administration of prescription or other medicine to a minor student to occur only on the parent's written request or authorization. States that a district, a charter school or employees thereof are immune from civil liability for the consequences of good faith adoption and implementation of policies and procedures related to administration of medication to students.
http://www.azleg.state.az.us/DocumentsForBill.asp?Bill_Number=1122
Title: S.B. 1122
Source: www.azleg.state.az.us
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| AZ | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | Establishes the 13-member School District Redistricting Commission to design a proposal to unify school districts in Arizona based on certain criteria. Requires the commission to submit a preliminary report on the proposed school district unification plan to the governing boards of the affected school districts by April 30, 2007. Requires the commission to consider the recommendations of the governing boards of the affected school districts and then design and submit to the governor on or before December 31, 2007 a proposed school district unification plan that includes (1) basing the unification plan on relevant academic and scientific research regarding school size, school district size, fiscal implications and legal issues; (2) considerations of geographic boundaries and travel time of pupils; (3) developing a plan for unorganized territories; (4) providing regional or statewide services for administration, instructional and noninstructional support services to rural or isolated schools and districts; (5) ensuring a smooth and efficient transition from the current number of school districts in this state to the number of school districts proposed in the school district unification plan, including specific considerations; (6) district naming conventions; (7) the review of existing statewide or regional educational service agencies and the establishment where necessary of new statewide or regional educational service agencies to provide for the noninstructional support of school districts in the state; (8) The restructuring of the state's school districts such that all districts serve students in at least all grades K-12, unless the commission determines otherwise; (9) Ensuring that the unification plan preserves local control while at the same time maximizing an efficient and cost-effective delivery of educational services; (10) Providing specific mechanisms for the payment of legal liabilities, contractual obligations, capital debt and overrides previously accumulated by school districts before the implementation of the unification plan; and (11) Identifying costs attributable to a unification plan subject to the approval of the joint legislative budget committee.
Sets forth procedures for all districts affected by the proposed school district unification plan submitted by the commission to call an election of all qualified voters within the boundaries of the proposed unified school district to be held at the next general election to adopt the boundaries as proposed by the commission. Provides that if any of the affected districts fail to approve the proposed unification plan, the plan is void. Permits the commission to revise the original unification plan and resubmit the plan to the qualified electors of each affected school district. States that if a majority of the qualified electors in any one of the affected school districts fails to approve the unification plan, the school district will not become part of a unified school district.
Makes changes to language related to increasing the revenue control limit and the district support level for certain transitional costs for the first year following consolidation.
http://www.azleg.state.az.us/legtext/47leg/1r/bills/sb1068h%2Epdf
Title: S.B. 1068
Source: www.azleg.state.az.us
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| AZ | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | By July 1, 2006, requires the department to develop minimum nutrition standards that at least meet federal guidelines for food and beverages sold or served at elementary and middle/junior high schools during the school day. Requires all elementary and middle/junior high schools to participate in the national school lunch program unless in a school district with fewer than 100 students, in which the district may opt not to participate. Requires food sold or served at elementary and middle/junior high schools or at school events during the school day to meet the departmental nutrition standards, including food sold as a la carte items in the food service program and food and beverages sold in vending machines, snack bars and meal-period kiosks and at school stores. Bars food of minimal nutritional value as defined in federal law from being sold or served during the school day at any elementary or middle/junior high school.
Beginning on July 15, 2006, requires new and renewal contracts for food and/or beverages to expressly prohibit the sale of sugared, carbonated beverages and all other foods of minimal nutritional value on elementary and middle/junior high campuses. Allows the department to approve a carbonated drink that meets or exceeds the department's minimum nutrition standards.
Authorizes parents, students and community members to review food and beverage contracts to ensure that food and drinks sold on elementary and middle/junior high campuses are nutritious, help students learn and model fit living for life.
Allows districts serving students in grades 9-12 to adopt nutrition standards for high schools.
Specifies that this bill does not prohibit a district from developing nutrition standards more stringent than the department's standards, prohibit or limit the sale of food or beverages through student, teacher, or educational groups' fundraising activities when items are intended for sale off school grounds, or prohibit or limit the sale of food or beverage items to adults in a faculty lounge or under other circumstances where the sale or distribution is limited to teachers, administrators or other adults.
http://www.azleg.state.az.us/DocumentsForBill.asp?Bill_Number=2544
Title: H.B. 2544
Source:
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| KS | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12
Community College | Sets forth parameters for contracts by local districts, board of trustees of a community college or the governing body of a technical college.
http://www.kslegislature.org/bills/2006/48.pdf
Fiscal note: http://www.kslegislature.org/legsrv-bills/showBill.do?id=35050
Supplemental note: http://www.kslegislature.org/legsrv-bills/showBill.do?id=37380
Title: S.B. 48 (section 1-9)
Source: www.kslegislature.org
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| ME | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | Requires the Department of Education to adopt major substantive rules to establish standards and practices to follow when proposing to close a school in the unorganized territory.
Title: H.P. 427
Source: StateNet
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| MS | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | School districts; authorize to joint venture with private developers to maximize returns on school assets.
Title: H.B. 1302
Source: StateNet
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| MT | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | AN ACT REVISING THE LAWS ON SCHOOL DISTRICT CONSOLIDATION AND ANNEXATION; ESTABLISHING A SINGLE PROCEDURE FOR THE ANNEXATION AND CONSOLIDATION OF SCHOOL DISTRICTS; PROVIDING FOR AN INTERIM BOARD OF TRUSTEES FOLLOWING PASSAGE OF A CONSOLIDATION ELECTION; CLARIFYING THAT DISTRICTS MAY CONSOLIDATE OR ANNEX ACROSS COUNTY LINES; REQUIRING A RESOLUTION OR PETITION FOR CONSOLIDATION OR ANNEXATION TO STATE WHETHER OR NOT THE CONSOLIDATION OR ANNEXATION WILL OCCUR WITH ASSUMPTION OF BONDED INDEBTEDNESS; REQUIRING A CONSOLIDATION ELECTION TO BE HELD NO LATER THAN DECEMBER 31 PRECEDING THE SCHOOL FISCAL YEAR IN WHICH THE CONSOLIDATION IS TO BECOME EFFECTIVE; CLARIFYING THAT A CONSOLIDATION OR ANNEXATION IS EFFECTIVE JULY 1 FOLLOWING AN ELECTION; CLARIFYING THAT CONSOLIDATION OR ANNEXATION MUST OCCUR WITH CONTIGUOUS DISTRICTS; CLARIFYING THE PROCEDURE FOR DETERMINING APPROVAL OF A CONSOLIDATION OR ANNEXATION WITH THE ASSUMPTION OF BONDED INDEBTEDNESS; ALLOWING AN ABANDONED DISTRICT TO ATTACH TO A CONTIGUOUS DISTRICT IN AN ADJACENT COUNTY; ALLOWING FOR THE CONSOLIDATION AND ANNEXATION OF K-12 DISTRICTS; ALLOWING DISTRICTS TO CONSOLIDATE ACROSS COUNTY LINES WITH THE ASSUMPTION OF BONDED INDEBTEDNESS; ELIMINATING THE SPECIAL PROCEDURES FOR THE CONSOLIDATION, ABANDONMENT, AND DISSOLUTION OF JOINT DISTRICTS; ELIMINATING THE SEPARATE PROCEDURES FOR THE ANNEXATION AND CONSOLIDATION OF ELEMENTARY AND HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICTS; AMENDING SECTIONS 20-3-205, 20-3-302, 20-3-312, 20-6-209, 20- 6-307, 20-6-704, AND 20-9-311, MCA; REPEALING SECTIONS 20-6-203, 20-6-204, 20- 6-205, 20-6-206, 20-6-207, 20-6-208, 20-6-210, 20-6-211, 20-6-315, 20-6-316, 20-6-317, 20-6-318, 20-6-319, AND 20-6-321, MCA; AND PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE
http://laws.leg.state.mt.us/pls/laws05/LAW0203W$BSRV.ActionQuery?P_BLTP_BILL_TYP_CD=HB&P_BILL_NO=681&P_BILL_DFT_NO=&Z_ACTION=Find&P_SBJ_DESCR=&P_SBJT_SBJ_CD=&P_LST_NM1=&P_ENTY_ID_SEQ=
Title: MT H.B. 681
Source: StateNet
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| NM | Pocket Veto by GOVERNOR. 04/2005 | P-12 | Relates to School District additions to other Districts.
http://legis.state.nm.us/lcs/_session.asp?chamber=S&type=++&number=308&year=05
Title: S.B. 308
Source: StateNet
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| AR | Signed into law 03/2005 | P-12 | Expands upon the Arkansas Educational Financial Accounting and Reporting Act of 2004. Requires charter schools to follow the financial reporting procedures required of public school districts. Expands upon and clarifies initial and ongoing training requirements for district superintendents, educational service cooperative directors, open-enrollment charter school directors and district/open-enrollment charter school staff whose job responsibilities include preparing the budget or overall accounting responsibility. http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2005/public/hb1568.pdf
Title: H.B. 1568
Source: www.arkleg.state.ar.us
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| AR | Signed into law 03/2005 | P-12 | Clarifies audit requirements for schools, municipalities and counties. http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2005/public/hb1185.pdf
Title: H.B. 1185
Source: StateNet
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| AR | Signed into law 03/2005 | P-12 | Provides for monitoring of the academic progress of specified subgroups of students from schools that were consolidated or annexed under act 60 of the second extraordinary session of the eighty-fourth general assembly. Also requires the receiving or resulting school district to obtain and retain all student records from the affected school district for the five years immediately preceding the annexation or consolidation. http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2005/public/HB1888.pdf
Title: H.B. 1888
Source: www.arkleg.state.ar.us
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| AR | Signed into law 03/2005 | P-12 | An act to allow education service cooperatives to purchase or construct buildings as may be required to provide authorized programs and services and to provide for distribution of assets upon dissolution. http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2005/public/HB1357.pdf
Title: H.B. 1357
Source: StateNet
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| AR | Signed into law 03/2005 | P-12 | Amends the personnel policy law for classified school employees to make it more consistent with the personnel policy law for certified school employees. http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2005/public/HB2000.pdf
Title: H.B. 2000
Source: StateNet
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| AR | Signed into law 03/2005 | P-12 | Amends sections of the Arkansas code pertaining to school elections. Specifies that the annual school election may concern only issues
authorized to be on the ballot by the Arkansas Constitution or by statute and no other issues shall appear on the ballot. Permits a school election to be held on a date other than that fixed by law only if it pertains to the tax rate or debt issues and other requirements are met. Repeals Arkansas Code § 6-14-105 on special elections. Clarifies other administrative matters pertaining to school district elections.
ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/bills/2005/public/HB2468.pdf
Title: H.B. 2468
Source: www.arkleg.state.ar.us
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| AR | Signed into law 03/2005 | P-12 | Permits any county that contains all or part of six or more districts to create an executive council and a school district coordinator. Establishes membership of executive council and duties and powers of school district coordinator. http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2005/public/SB490.pdf
Title: S.B. 490
Source: www.arkleg.state.ar.us
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| AR | Signed into law 03/2005 | P-12 | Requires school district auditors to comply with the requirements and prohibitions of the federal Sarbanes Oxley Act of 2002. http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2005/public/HB2700.pdf
Title: H.B. 2700
Source: StateNet
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| AR | Signed into law 03/2005 | P-12 | Revises the duties and responsibilities of the division of public school academic facilities and transportation and creates the commission on public school academic facilities and transportation.
Provides that the enumerated duties of the Division of Public School Academic Facilities and Transportation are to: ... "(5) Develop and implement an ongoing uniform process for collecting, inventorying, and updating information on the state of condition of all public school academic facilities in the state; (6) Develop a facility cost index that provides a methodology for comparing the cost of repairing the condition of a public school academic facility to the cost of replacing the public school academic facility with a facility containing the same amount of square footage; (7) Conduct unannounced random on-site inspections of public school academic facilities; (8) Develop minimum standards for accessibility to public school academic facilities and programs for individuals with disabilities; (9) Develop guidelines for competitive bidding, competitive negotiation, and other methods of procurement for public school academic facilities projects; (10) Develop incentive programs to reward school districts for innovative, effective, and efficient use of local and state resources with regard to public school academic facilities;" and "(13) Report by October 1 of each year to the Governor, the House Committee on Education, the Senate Committee on Education, and the Academic Facilities Oversight Committee on the state of condition of education facilities statewide" addressing specified features of school facilities; "(14) Report by October 1 of each even-numbered year to the Governor, the House Committee on Education, the Senate Committee on Education, and the Academic Facilities Oversight Committee on the state academic facilities master plan; and (15) Maintain a public access website dedicated to public school academic facilities."
http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2005/public/SB590.pdf
Title: S.B. 590
Source: www.arkleg.state.ar.us
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| AR | Signed into law 03/2005 | P-12 | Clarifies a school employee's right to have a witness or representative present in a disciplinary or grievance matter. http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2005/public/HB2482.pdf
Title: H.B. 2482
Source: StateNet
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| AR | Signed into law 03/2005 | P-12 | Defines "public-public partnership" as a contractual agreement between a school district and another governmental agency, political subdivision, or institution of higher education to meet a clearly defined need for facilities, infrastructure, or goods and services. Authorizes any school district to use public-public partnerships as a project delivery method for the building, altering, repairing, improving, maintaining, or demolishing of any structure, or any improvement to real property owned by the school district.
http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2005/public/SB858.pdf
Title: S.B. 858
Source: www.arkleg.state.ar.us
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| AR | Signed into law 03/2005 | P-12 | Requires a comprehensive financial review of school districts prior to consolidation, annexation, or otherwise reorganization. Requires any district involved in consolidation or annexation to have an audit begun within 30 days of the closing of the district's books. Provides that the department of education must have authority to oversee all fiscal and accounting related matters of all districts on the consolidation list and must require those districts to have accurate records necessary to close all books within 60 days after the end of the fiscal year.
http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2005/public/HB2560.pdf
Title: H.B. 2560
Source: www.arkleg.state.ar.us
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| AZ | Vetoed 03/2005 | P-12 | Amends provisions relating to the school facilities board. Bars the school facilities board from entering into lease-to-own transactions as of June 30, 2005; provides exception. http://www.azleg.state.az.us/DocumentsForBill.asp?Bill_Number=1394
Title: S.B. 1394
Source: www.azleg.state.az.us
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| KS | Signed into law 03/2005 | P-12 | Relates to enrollment. For this purpose, defines "pupils" as students who are dependents of a fulltime active duty member of the military service or miliary reserve who are engaged in mobilizing for war, international peacekeeping missions, national emergency, or homeland defense activities. Establishes a second date for enrollment count on February 20 for the 2005-2006 and 2006-2007 school years. Adds that if the number of pupils enrolled in a district in those school years on February 20 has increased from the number of pupils enrolled in the district on September 20 of the same school year by at least 25 pupils or by a number equal to 1% or more of the district's enrollment, the enrollment of the district for the school year will be that from the February 20 count.
Bill text: http://www.kslegislature.org/legsrv-bills/showBill.do?id=37742
Supplemental note: http://www.kslegislature.org/supplemental/2006/SN2059.pdf
Fiscal note: http://www.kslegislature.org/fiscalnotes/2006/2059.pdf
Title: H.B. 2059
Source: StateNet
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| KY | Signed into law 03/2005 | P-12 | Beginning with the 2006-2007 school year, requires each school to limit access to no more than one day each week to retail fast foods in the cafeteria, whether sold by contract, commercial vendor, or otherwise.
Requires every district to appoint a food service director who is responsible for the management and oversight of the food service program in the district; allows two or more contiguous districts to form a "school food service area," in which a school food service director must be jointly selected by the participating superintendents to oversee the school food service area. Each school food service director must be certified as a "school food service and nutrition specialist" or certified by a Level 2 certificate issued by the American School Food Service Association within three years after this bill goes into effect. Requires school cafeteria managers to annually receive at least two hours of continuing education in applied nutrition and healthy meal planning and preparation.
Defines "competitive food," "school day" and school-day-approved beverage." Defines "school-day-approved beverage" as water, 100% fruit juice, lowfat milk, and any beverage that contains no more than 10 grams of sugar per serving. Requires the state board to specify the minimum nutritional standards for all foods and beverages sold outside the National School Breakfast and National School Lunch programs in vending machines, school stores, canteens, and a la carte cafeteria sales. Requires minimum nutritional standards to be based on the most recent edition of the United States Department of Agriculture's Dietary Guidelines for Americans. Requires the state board rule to address serving size, sugar, and fat content of the foods and beverages. Permits school districts to impose more stringent standards than the state board standards. Requires all schools to follow the state board minimum standards unless the school has obtained a waiver from the state board. Requires any waiver approved by the state board to be reviewed on an annual basis.
Bars schools from selling competitive foods or beverages from the time of the arrival of the first student at the school building until 30 minutes after the last lunch period. Allows only school-day-approved beverages to be sold in elementary schools during the school day in vending machines, school stores, canteens, or fundraisers that sell beverages by students, teachers, or groups on school grounds.
Establishes fines and other sanctions for any public school that violates the school food nutrition requirements in section 4 of this bill.
Requires each school food service director to annually assess school nutrition in the district and issue a written report to parents, the local school board, and school-based decision making councils. The report must include:
(a) An evaluation of compliance with the National School Breakfast and National School Lunch programs;
(b) An evaluation of the availability of contracted fast foods or foods sold through commercial vendors;
(c) A review of access to foods and beverages sold outside the National School Breakfast and National School Lunch programs, including vending machines, school stores, canteens, and a la carte cafeteria sales;
(d) A list of foods and beverages that are available to students, including the nutritional value of those foods and beverages; and
(e) Recommendations for improving the school nutrition environment.
Requires the state board to develop an assessment tool that each school district may use to evaluate its physical activity environment. Requires the evaluation to be completed annually and released to the public at the same time as the school food service director's annual nutrition report. Requires every local board to discuss the findings of the nutrition report and physical activity report, seek public comments during a public meeting of the board, and annually hold an advertised public forum to present a plan to improve school nutrition and physical activities in the school district.
Requires each school council of an elementary school to develop and implement a wellness policy that includes moderate to vigorous physical activity each day and encourages healthy choices among students. The policy may permit physical activity to be considered part of the instructional day, up to 30 minutes per day, or 150 minutes per week. Each school council must adopt an assessment tool or utilize an existing assessment program to annually determine each child's level of physical activity. Requires the department to make available a list of available resources to carry out the provisions of this subsection, and to report annually to the Legislative Research Commission on how the schools are providing physical activity under these requirements, and on the types of physical activity being provided. The policy developed by the school council must comply with provisions required by federal law, state law, or local board policy.
Bill summary, history and text: http://lrc.ky.gov/RECORD/05RS/SB172.htm
Fiscal note: http://lrc.ky.gov/RECORD/05RS/SB172/FN.doc
Title: S.B. 172
Source: lrc.ky.gov
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| MS | Signed into law 03/2005 | P-12 | School district accounts; superintendent may pay claims to be ratified by local school board.
The local school board shall be authorized and empowered to promulgate rules and regulations that specify the types of claims and sets limits of the dollar amount for payment of claims by the superintendent of schools to be ratified by the board at the next regularly scheduled meeting after payment has been made;
http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2005/html/HB/0700-0799/HB0758SG.htm
Title: H.B. 758
Source: StateNet
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| MT | Signed into law 03/2005 | P-12 | Clarifies governance for certain school districts.
http://data.opi.state.mt.us/bills/2005/billhtml/HB0397.htm
Title: H.B. 397
Source: StateNet
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| MT | Signed into law 03/2005 | P-12 | Revise statutes related to school district enrollment and calculation; provides for tuition to be paid for a nonresident public school student who reaches the age of 18 during the school year.
http://data.opi.state.mt.us/bills/2005/billhtml/SB0359.htm
Title: S.B. 359
Source: StateNet
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| NE | Signed into law 03/2005 | P-12 | Relates to schools. Provides for payment adjustments to reflect transfers of property as prescribed.
(1) State aid payments shall be adjusted to reflect transfers of property due to annexation, to any dissolution of a Class I school district, and to any reorganization involving one or more Class I school districts.
Title: L.B. 198
Source: StateNet
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| NM | Signed into law 03/2005 | Postsec. | Relates to higher education; provides procedures for adding portions of school districts to existing technical and vocational institute districts.
http://legis.state.nm.us/Sessions/05%20Regular/final/HB0693.pdf
Title: H.B. 693
Source: StateNet
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| SD | Signed into law 03/2005 | P-12 | Provides certain options to school boards in reorganization. Boards may decide by resolution to reorganize or may accept or decide based on petitions. http://legis.state.sd.us/sessions/2005/bills/SB66enr.pdf
Title: S.B. 66
Source: http://legis.state.sd.us
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| AR | Signed into law 02/2005 | P-12 | An act to protect the continuity of school boards by amending the procedure for election of school boards following annexation; allows certain districts to return to at-large elections. http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2005/public/hb1266.pdf
Title: H.B. 1266
Source: StateNet
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| IL | Signed into law 02/2005 | P-12 | Relates to the Childhood Hunger Relief Act. Provides that every public school must have a free breakfast program. Strongly encourages all districts with at least 50% of students eligible for free or reduced lunch to sponsor a summer food service program by summer 2006. Requires school boards and welfare centers to keep accurate accounts of all moneys expended for free school breakfast programs, free lunch programs and summer food service programs. http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/93/hb/09300hb0756lv.htm
Title: H.B. 756
Source: StateNet
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| MI | Signed into law 12/2004 | P-12 | Provides for the creation and operation of a cooperative bulk purchasing program for school districts, public school academies, nonpublic schools, and intermediate school districts on a fee basis to reduce the costs of purchasing goods and services by the Department of Management and Budget.
http://www.michiganlegislature.org/mileg.asp?page=getObject&objName=2004-HB-5913
Title: H.B. 5913
Source: StateNet
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| MI | Signed into law 12/2004 | P-12 | Provides for inapplicability of school district requirements to obtain competitive bids for purchasing if the school district makes purchase through the cooperative bulk purchasing program through the Department of Management and Budget.
http://www.michiganlegislature.org/mileg.asp?page=getObject&objName=2004-HB-5875
Title: H.B. 5875
Source: StateNet
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| MI | Signed into law 12/2004 | P-12 | Limits the school districts that operate grades kindergarten through 12 that are annexed by a community college that can elect a member of the board of trustees, to those districts annexed before July 1, 2004.
http://www.michiganlegislature.org/mileg.asp?page=getObject&objName=2004-HB-6242
Title: H.B. 6242
Source: StateNet
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| MT | Rule Adoption 12/2004 | P-12
Postsec. | Relates to out-of-state attendance agreements. The superintendent of public instruction shall
provide payment of the amount calculated in (4)(a), but not
more than the amount of tuition paid by the district for
resident students who attended school out-of-state, in the
year the out-of-district attendance report is submitted,
provided it is submitted with documentation
of payment, to the superintendent of public instruction within
the school year following the year of attendance
Title: ARM 10.10.301C
Source: StateNet
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| MI | Signed into law 11/2004 | P-12 | Relates to a conflict of interest policy for intermediate school district officials and employees; requires and prohibits members of constituent district board from serving on an intermediate school board.
http://www.michiganlegislature.org/mileg.asp?page=getObject&objName=2004-HB-5921
Title: H.B. 5921
Source: StateNet
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| MI | Signed into law 11/2004 | P-12 | Requires Internet accessible database regarding Intermediate School District expenditures, including air travel, conference or training costs and contracts.
http://www.michiganlegislature.org/mileg.asp?page=getObject&objName=2004-HB-5475
Title: H.B. 5475
Source: StateNet
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| MI | Signed into law 11/2004 | P-12 | Requires the annual audit of such school districts to contain the website address where the report can be accessed.
http://www.michiganlegislature.org/mileg.asp?page=getObject&objName=2004-HB-5627
Title: H.B. 5627
Source: StateNet
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| MI | Signed into law 11/2004 | P-12 | Requires the Department of Treasury to conduct random financial audits of intermediate school districts.
http://www.michiganlegislature.org/mileg.asp?page=getObject&objName=2004-HB-5457
Title: H.B. 5457
Source: StateNet
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| CA | Vetoed--in Senate to unfinished business 10/2004 | P-12 | The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for costs mandated by the state and incurred by a local agency or school district to implement a new program or higher level of service. Existing law creates certain exceptions. This bill includes within that exception costs mandated by a statute or executive order that imposes a duty on a local agency or school district that was expressly included in a ballot measure approved by the voters in a local election.
Repeals provisions requiring a school district that succeeds the Grant Joint Union High School District to use, for home-to-school transportation, the funding made available pursuant to voluntary desegregation programs and requires that pupils in grades 7 to 12 who apply to transfer from a school district that succeeds the Grant Joint Union High School District to another school district that succeeds the Grant Joint Union High School District to be granted a transfer according to certain priorities, among which is that the transfer would mitigate schoolsite segregation. Replaces with statement of the intent of the Legislature that, if the Grant Joint Union High School District is reorganized to create two new unified school districts, the reorganization must be implemented in a manner that provides constitutionally permissible opportunities for the voluntary racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic integration of pupils attending each school district.
Requires a proposal to reorganize the Grant Joint Union High School District that is initiated by the Sacramento County Committee on School District Organization and approved by the State Board of Education before December 31, 2007, to include requirements that pupils eligible to enroll in any of grades 7 to 12, except expelled pupils, whose parents are residents of any school district that succeeds the Grant Joint Union
High School District have the same rights to enroll in any secondary school in a district that succeeds the Grant Joint Union High School District as a pupil whose parents are residents of that other district, and that the successor school districts to the Grant Joint Union High School District provide free transportation to these pupils if they so request, hold joint annual meetings to review segregation issues, and grant seniority rights to employees of school districts that cease to exist as a result of the proposal who become employees of the successor districts.
Requires a ballot measure to approve this proposal to clearly inform the voters that by approving the measure the voters are mandating the successor school districts to incur costs to implement the requirements described above and that these costs would not be reimbursed by the state. Makes legislative findings and declarations in this regard. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/sen/sb_1251-1300/sb_1271_bill_20040823_enrolled.pdf
Veto message: http://www.governor.ca.gov/govsite/pdf/vetoes/SB_1271_veto.pdf
Title: S.B. 1271
Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov
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| MI | Signed into law 10/2004 | P-12 | Allows certain school districts to create a law enforcement agency under the Public Body Law Enforcement Agency Act.
http://www.michiganlegislature.org/mileg.asp?page=getObject&objName=2003-HB-5121
Title: H.B. 5121
Source: StateNet
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| NJ | Signed into law 10/2004 | P-12 | Permits a school district that terminates the operation of a separate school for special education pupils and returns all funds legally uwed to the school districts that sent pupils to the school to use any remaining funds to establish a scholarship foundation for the pupils of the district.
Title: A.B. 2257
Source: StateNet
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| NY | Signed into law 10/2004 | P-12 | Requires special act school districts to have a certain minority of public members appointed by the Commissioner of Education; defines public members as neither employed by, nor members of, the boards of trustees of the designated child care agencies appointing the non-public members.
Title: A.B. 11364
Source: StateNet
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| NY | Signed into law 10/2004 | P-12 | Requires that boards of Education of special act school district include two public members, each serving a term of 4 years.
Title: A.B. 11670
Source: StateNet
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| CA | Vetoed 09/2004 | P-12 | Permits a county committee on school district organization to abolish a common governing board of an elementary school district and a high school district upon a vote of the electors of the school districts. Provides that an election relating to a school district reorganization may be held solely by mail, with certain requirements, and that an election may not be called for a petition to transfer uninhabited territory. Provides procedures for a charter school affected by reorganization. Relates to school district bonds. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_2801-2850/ab_2841_bill_20040816_enrolled.html
Veto message: http://www.governor.ca.gov/govsite/pdf/vetoes/AB_2841_veto.pdf
Title: A.B. 2841
Source: California Legislative Web site
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| CA | Vetoed 09/2004 | P-12 | Requires the State Allocation Board to adopt regulations to implement design standards for school facilities in accordance with guidelines established by the Collaborative for High Performance Schools. Provides that eligibility for funding for projects under the Leroy F. Green School Facilities Act from the proceeds of general obligation bonds approved by voters after January 1, 2006, is contingent on the applicant school district meeting design standards equivalent to the regulations. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_0701-0750/ab_736_bill_20040824_enrolled.html
Veto message: http://www.governor.ca.gov/govsite/pdf/vetoes/AB_736_veto.pdf
Title: A.B. 736
Source: California Legislative Web site
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| CA | Vetoed 09/2004 | P-12 | Specifies that before school may serve irradiated foods, the district must: (1) Take formal action permitting the use of irradiated foods.
(2) Make all of the following information available in any appropriate form to pupils and their parents:
(A) The purpose of irradiation use on foods.
(B) The effects of irradiation on the nutritional value of foods.
(C) Objective and balanced scientifically peer-reviewed research on the use of irradiation on foods.
(3) Ensure that menu items containing irradiated foods are clearly labeled with the phrase ''treated with irradiation'' or
''treated by irradiation.'' http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_1951-2000/ab_1988_bill_20040825_enrolled.html
Veto message: http://www.governor.ca.gov/govsite/pdf/vetoes/AB_1988_veto.pdf
Title: A.B. 1988
Source: California Legislative Web site
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| CA | Signed into law 09/2004 | P-12 | Relates to the Field Act that requires the Department of General Services to supervise the design and construction of school buildings to ensure compliance with specific rules and regulations and building codes. Requires written rules and regulations adopted pursuant to that act be made available to the public by the State Architect upon request. Requires building code rules and regulations by an local enforcement agency to clarify the State Building Code be made public. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_2601-2650/ab_2638_bill_20040921_chaptered.pdf
Title: A.B. 2638
Source: StateNet
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| CA | Signed into law 09/2004 | P-12 | Requires a school district to use its uniform complaint process to help identify and resolve any emergency or urgent facilities conditions that pose a threat to the health and safety of the pupils or staff instead of conditions of facilities that are not maintained in a clean and safe manner or in good repair. Becomes operative only if 2003-2004 Senate Bill 850 is also enacted. Declares that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_2701-2750/ab_2727_bill_20040929_chaptered.pdf
Title: A.B. 2727
Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov
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| CA | Signed into law 09/2004 | P-12 | Establishes a program in the counties of Fresno, Humboldt, and Ventura to place the duties of approval and disapproval of petitions for the unification of school districts on the county committee. Merges an elementary school district and a high school district if their boundaries become coterminous. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_0751-0800/ab_780_bill_20040921_chaptered.pdf
Title: A.B. 780
Source: StateNet
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| CA | Signed into law 09/2004 | P-12 | Relates to the Leroy F. Greene School Facilities Act of 1998. Authorizes the governing board of a school district to make a written request to any person, corporation, public utility, local publicly owned utility or governmental agency for information necessary or useful to make an assessment of a proposed schoolsite or an addition to an existing schoolsite. Provides response procedures. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_2451-2500/ab_2485_bill_20040918_chaptered.pdf
Title: A.B. 2485
Source: StateNet
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| CA | Vetoed 09/2004 | P-12 | Requires the California Children and Families Commission to complete and submit a cost study that provides an estimate of the cost of a voluntary Preschool for All program in the state. Convenes a Workforce Development Blue Ribbon Committee to develop a workforce development plan that establishes an infrastructure for educating, preparing and supporting a well-trained, culturally and linguistically diverse teaching and administrative staff in early care and education programs, Preschool for All programs, and kindergarten and grades 1 to 3. Requires the committee, by January 1, 2006, to present a workforce development plan. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_0701-0750/ab_712_bill_20040828_enrolled.pdf
Veto message: http://www.governor.ca.gov/govsite/pdf/vetoes/AB_712_veto.pdf
Title: A.B. 712
Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov
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| CA | Signed into law 09/2004 | P-12 | Requires the county superintendent to annually present a report to the governing board of each school district under his or her jurisdiction and to the board of supervisors of the county describing the state of the schools in the county and of his or her office that are ranked in deciles 1 to 3, inclusive, of the 2003 base Academic Performance Index. Requires the county superintendent for the Counties of Alpine, Amador, Del Norte, Mariposa, Plumas, Sierra, and the City and County of San Francisco to contract with a neighboring county office of education or an independent auditor to conduct the required visits and make all required reports. Makes the priority objective of the visits to determine if there are sufficient textbooks, conditions of facilities that pose an emergency or urgent threat to the health or safety of pupils or staff, and accurate data reported on the school accountability report card with respect to the availability of sufficient textbooks and instructional materials, the safety, cleanliness, adequacy, and good repair of school facilities. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/sen/sb_0501-0550/sb_550_bill_20040929_chaptered.pdf
Title: S.B. 550 (multiple provisions)
Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov
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| CA | Signed into law 09/2004 | P-12 | Requires schools initially applying to participate in the High Priority Schools Grant Program on or after the 2004–05 fiscal year to include highly qualified teachers and appropriately credentialed teachers for English learners in the component on quality of staff in
the school action plan. Specifies that the mandatory school action plan components on facilities, curriculum, instructional materials, and support services for those schools be on facilities in good repair, curriculum, sufficient instructional materials, and support services. Requires schools initially applying to participate in the High Priority Schools Grant Program on or after the 2004–05 fiscal year to measure the availability of instructional materials against a specified definition of ''sufficient instructional materials.'' http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/sen/sb_0501-0550/sb_550_bill_20040929_chaptered.pdf
Title: S.B. 550 (multiple provisions)
Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov
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| CA | Signed into law 09/2004 | P-12 | SEC. 12: Requires a school district to use its uniform complaint process to help identify and resolve any deficiencies related to
instructional materials, conditions of facilities that are not maintained in a clean and safe manner or in good repair, and teacher vacancy or
misassignment. Requires a notice to be posted in each classroom in each school in the school district notifying parents and
guardians that there should be sufficient textbooks or instructional materials, school facilities must be clean, safe, and in good repair, and
the location to obtain a form to file a complaint in case of a shortage. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/sen/sb_0501-0550/sb_550_bill_20040929_chaptered.pdf
Title: S.B. 550 (multiple provisions)
Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov/
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| CA | Signed into law 09/2004 | P-12 | Existing law, the Leroy F. Greene State School Building Lease-Purchase Law of 1976, the Leroy F. Greene State School Building
Lease-Purchase Law of 1998, and the State Relocatable Classroom Law of 1979, requires the State Allocation Board to require a school district
that receives funds for a school construction or modernization project to make all necessary repairs, renewals, and replacement to ensure that a project is at all times kept in good repair, working order and condition.
As a condition of participation in the school facilities program and the receipt of funds pursuant to the deferred maintenance program, the current bill requires a school district to establish a facilities inspection system to ensure that each of its schools is in good repair, as defined in
the bill. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/sen/sb_0501-0550/sb_550_bill_20040929_chaptered.pdf
Title: S.B. 550 (multiple provisions)
Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov
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| CA | Signed into law 09/2004 | P-12 | SEC. 10: Requires the school accountability report card to include information regarding the availability of sufficient textbooks and other instructional materials for each pupil, any needed maintenance of school facilities to ensure good repair, the misassignments of teachers, including misassignments of English learner teachers, and the number of vacant teacher positions for the most recent 3-year period. Defines ''misassignment'' and ''vacant position'' for this purpose.
Requires the template for the school accountability report card to include a field to report the determination of the sufficiency of textbooks and instructional materials and a summary statement of the condition of school facilities. Requires the department to provide examples of summary statements of the condition of school facilities that are acceptable and those that are unacceptable. Declares that these provisions further the purposes of the Classroom Instructional Improvement and Accountability Act. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/sen/sb_0501-0550/sb_550_bill_20040929_chaptered.pdf
Title: S.B. 550 (multiple provisions)
Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov
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| CA | Signed into law 09/2004 | P-12 | Amends existing law that requires a school district seeking to let a contract involving a minimum expenditure for purchase of equipment, materials or supplies to publish a notice calling for bids in newspapers of general circulation. Authorizes school districts to also publish this notice for bids on the district's Web site or through an electronic portal, and authorizes these districts to accept bids that were submitted either electronically or on paper. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/sen/sb_1451-1500/sb_1464_bill_20040924_chaptered.pdf
Title: S.B. 1464
Source: StateNet
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| MI | Signed into law 09/2004 | P-12 | Ensures a minimum level of funding to small, rural and Upper Peninsula or island districts that are not near other schools or accessible by a bridge.
http://www.michiganlegislature.org/mileg.asp?page=getObject&objName=2004-SB-1069
Title: S.B. 1069
Source: StateNet
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| NY | Vetoed 09/2004 | P-12 | Provides for the funding of certain approved non- public special education programs and special act public school districts including making changes in the reimbursement methodology for tuition and maintenance and makes an appropriation therefor; allows such districts to retain a portion of annual budget for unexpected expenditures; makes numerous other related provisions. Allows such districts to retain up to 2.5% of annual budget for unexpected expenditures and makes numerous other related provisions; also authorizes a surplus factor of not more than two percent.
http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?bn=s2917
Title: S.B. 2917
Source: StateNet
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| MI | Signed into law 08/2004 | P-12 | Revises the provisions governing the formation of first class school district boards; relates to procedures for the formation of school reform boards; requires a special election shall be held in the school district of the City of Detroit to decide whether to approve the form of governance provided for in this legislation or whether to return the district to the form of governance in effect prior to the enactment of certain legislation.
http://www.michiganlegislature.org/documents/2003-2004/publicact/pdf/2004-PA-0303.pdf
Title: H.B. 4508
Source: StateNet
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| NY | Signed into law 08/2004 | P-12 | Allows a school district to apply to the state commissioner of education to purchase school food items from an association of more than 10 owners of New York state farms, when no other producers or growers have offered to sell to such school. http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?bn=S06024&sh=t
Title: S.B. 6024
Source: assembly.state.ny.us
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| MI | To governor 07/2004 | P-12 | Requires election of board members for intermediate school districts.
http://www.michiganlegislature.org/documents/2003-2004/publicact/pdf/2004-PA-0234.pdf
Title: H.B. 4338
Source: StateNet
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| MI | Signed into law 07/2004 | P-12 | Relates to school district election coordinators; prohibits delegation of duties to the Secretary of School Board.
http://www.michiganlegislature.org/documents/2003-2004/publicact/pdf/2004-PA-0286.pdf
Title: H.B. 5990
Source: StateNet
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| MI | Signed into law 07/2004 | P-12 | Relates to election of a school board member; requires written acceptance of office and written affidavit of eligibility.
http://www.michiganlegislature.org/documents/2003-2004/publicact/pdf/2004-PA-0288.pdf
Title: H.B. 5992
Source: StateNet
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| MI | Signed into law 07/2004 | P-12 | Provides general amendments regarding scheduling of local elections; includes school district elections.
http://www.michiganlegislature.org/documents/2003-2004/publicact/pdf/2004-PA-0292.pdf
Title: H.B. 5997
Source: StateNet
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| MI | Signed into law 07/2004 | P-12 | Relates to filling of vacancies in case of school board member; provides for filing a petition with the clerk of the county where the petition was filed announces the result of the recall election; relates to filing with the school district election coordinator.
http://www.michiganlegislature.org/documents/2003-2004/publicact/pdf/2004-PA-0298.pdf
Title: H.B. 6003
Source: StateNet
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| MI | Signed into law 07/2004 | P-12 | Requires notification to school district election coordinators of a person appointed to fill a vacancy.
http://www.michiganlegislature.org/documents/2003-2004/publicact/pdf/2004-PA-0289.pdf
Title: H.B. 5993
Source: StateNet
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| MI | Signed into law 07/2004 | P-12 | Provides procedures for recall of school board members.
Title: H.B. 5994
Source: StateNet
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| AR | Rule Adoption 06/2004 | P-12 | Establishes rules regarding school district audits not conducted by legislative audit. Establishes requirements for completion and filing of audits not conducted by Legislative Audit effective beginning on June 30, 2005, for the 2005-2006 fiscal year and each fiscal year thereafter. http://arkedu.state.ar.us/pdf/ade%20168%20school%20districts%20audits.pdf
Title: ADE 168
Source: Arkansas State Web site
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| LA | Signed into law 06/2004 | P-12 | Includes guidance counselors holding appropriate ancillary certificates issued by the state department of education in definitions of persons eligible for certain sabbatical and sick leave benefits provided by law. http://www.legis.state.la.us/leg_docs/04RS/CVT4/OUT/0000LUZS.PDF
Title: H.B. 493
Source: StateNet
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| LA | Signed into law 06/2004 | P-12 | Permits city, parish, or other local public or nonpublic school systems to contract with local law enforcement agencies to provide for school resource officers. http://www.legis.state.la.us/leg_docs/04RS/CVT3/OUT/0000LV4G.PDF
Title: H.B. 1163
Source: StateNet
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| KS | Signed into law 05/2004 | P-12 | Concerns the computation of the amount of state financial aid received by school districts that consolidate;
establishes the Center for Innovative School Leadership; establishes membership requirements of school site councils, allows self-administration of asthma or allergy medication by student. http://www.kslegislature.org/bills/2004/304.pdf Supplemental Note: http://www.kslegislature.org/supplemental/2004/SN0304.pdf Fiscal Note: http://www.kslegislature.org/fiscalnotes/2004/304.pdf
Title: S.B. 304
Source: StateNet
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| MS | Signed into law 05/2004 | P-12 | Relates to Adequate Education Program; deletes repealer on high growth school district formula.
If during the year for which adequate education program funds are appropriated, any school district experiences a three percent (3%) or greater increase in average daily attendance during the second and third month over the preceding year's second and third month and the school district has requested a minimum increase of four percent (4%) in local ad valorem revenues over the previous year as authorized in Sections 37-57-104 and 37-57-105, an additional allocation of adequate education program funds calculated in the following manner shall be granted to that district, using any additional funds available to the Department of Education that exceed the amount of funds due to the school districts under the basic adequate education program distribution as provided for in this chapter:
The State Department of Education shall study and develop a report to the Chairmen of the Senate and House Committees on Education by January 1, 2005, with options for legislative consideration that will insure that the Mississippi Adequate Education funds are distributed to school districts based on current year student attendance or enrollment. This subsection (4) shall stand repealed on July 1, 2006
Title: H.B. 741
Source: StateNet
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| AR | Emergency Rule Adoption 04/2004 | P-12 | Establishes emergency rules regarding the administrative consolidation or annexation of public school districts. http://arkedu.state.ar.us/pdf/condensed%20version.pdf
Title: ADE 165
Source: Arkansas State Web site
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| AR | Emergency Rule Adoption 04/2004 | P-12 | Establishes emergency rules regarding the administrative consolidation or annexation of public school districts. http://arkedu.state.ar.us/pdf/condensed%20version.pdf
Title: 005.01.04-001
Source: Arkansas State Web site
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| KS | Signed into law 04/2004 | P-12 | Authorizes districts to discuss issues relating to consolidation of such districts. Specifies that such meetings may be held within the boundaries of any of the districts proposing to form the consolidated district. (Under previous statute, districts were authorized only to enter into agreements to consolidate two or more districts, not to enter into discussions thereof). http://www.kslegislature.org/bills/2004/373.pdf
Title: S.B. 373
Source: www.kslegislature.org
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| KY | Signed into law 04/2004 | P-12 | Requires local school boards to award a minimum ten days sick leave during the school year to all full time employees; includes full time employees in other sick leave provisions that previously pertained only to teachers; amends definition of "immediate family" to include the immediate family members of all school employees. http://www.lrc.state.ky.us/RECORD/04RS/HB309/bill.doc
Fiscal impact: http://www.lrc.state.ky.us/RECORD/04RS/HB309/FN.doc
Title: H.B. 309
Source: www.lrc.state.ky.us
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| MD | Signed into law 04/2004 | P-12 | Requires the Superintendent and the Department of Education to monitor the financial status of each county board of education and report to the Governor and General Assembly on a biannual basis; requires local superintendents or chief executive officers of local school systems to file biannual reports and to make specified attestations; provides that if a local school system does not file a annual audit, the Superintendent is required to instruct the Comptroller to withhold 10% of state aid installments.
Title: S.B. 894
Source: StateNet
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| MS | Signed into law 04/2004 | P-12 | Authorizes 12 or more school districts to enter into an agreement to establish an Educational Service Agency (ESA). The ESA would be managed by an advisory board composed of the superintendents or their designees from each participating school district. The board of directors would be elected on an annual basis from the advisory board and hire an Executive Director. The ESA would provide a variety of services as determined by the participating school districts. In addition, the bill authorizes local school boards to implement a financial literacy program for students in grades 10 and 11. Implementation of this program is discretionary with the local board.
http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2004/pdf/SB/3000-3099/SB3016SG.pdf
Title: S.B. 3016
Source: StateNet
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| MS | Signed into law 04/2004 | P-12 | Clarifies that all school districts – not just those school districts within a county – can make joint purchases of maintenance, operational and scholastic services, supplies, materials, and equipment.
http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2004/pdf/HB/0600-0699/HB0667SG.pdf
Title: H.B. 667
Source: StateNet
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| NE | Signed into law 04/2004 | P-12 | One part of this bill creates the School District Reorganization Fund. From the fiscal note: AM 3480 provides that the state will fund incentive payments to encourage Class II and III school districts with less than 390 students to reorganize into Class II, III, IV or V school districts with greater than 390 students. The incentive payments apply to consolidations after May 31, 2005 and before June 1, 2007. Incentives are paid to reorganized schools for two years. Base year incentives are paid in the initial year of reorganization. $1 million in transfers from the Education Innovation Fund (lottery proceeds) will be available in 2005-06 and 2006-07 for base year incentives. The funds are to be prorated if the total is insufficient to fund all schools qualified for incentives.
Base year incentives will be equal to 50% of the amount calculated based upon a formula established in the amendment.
Incentives in the second year of a consolidation will equal the other 50% of the original calculation unless funds were prorated for the
base year. If funds were prorated, the second year incentive will include the amount not paid in the first year due to proration of funds.
Second year incentives will be funded with General Funds as part of the distribution of state aid in 2006-07 and 2007-08. Base year
incentives are not included in formula resources for purposes of state aid and schools may exceed the budget lid by the amount of
incentive payments received. The fiscal impact of the amendment for the state depends upon the consolidations that occur. In 2002-03, there were 134 Class II and III school districts with less than 390 students. These systems had an average daily membership (ADM) of 32,891 students. It is estimated that if all school districts (76) in the standard cost grouping with less than 390 students were to consolidate, the fiscal impact for incentives will be $36.4 million over the three year period from 2005-06 to 2007-08.
The potential fiscal impact is overstated since all Class II and III school districts in the standard cost group with less than 390 students
will probably not consolidate. The fiscal impact is understated due to the use of 2002-03 ADM. This is because declining membership
in smaller school systems results in a greater number of schools being eligible for future incentives which may be higher as
membership declines. The fiscal impact may also be understated if school systems in the sparse or very sparse cost groups
consolidate. The fiscal impact may also be impacted by consolidations of Class I and Class VI districts with Class II and III districts.
This fiscal notes assumes that about 5%-10% of the eligible districts will consolidate and be eligible for incentives during the period
allowed in the bill. This assumption is based upon the number of consolidations of school districts that occurred from 1997-98 through
2001-02 when a prior incentive plan was funded by the state. If this number of consolidations occur, then the total fiscal impact will
range from $1.8 to $3.6 million over the three year period. The estimated amount will be higher if all of the consolidations occur in
districts which receive the largest incentive payments pursuant to the bill.
The amount of additional state aid required each fiscal year for incentives will depend upon the timing of consolidations. The fiscal
impact in the bill's initial year is a maximum of $1 million of lottery funds set aside for base year incentives. If $1million of base year
incentives are distributed in 2005-06, the fiscal impact in 2006-07 would be $1 million of general funds for second year incentives
authorized in 2005-06 and an additional $1 million of lottery funds for 2006-07 base year incentives. If base year incentives are
prorated in 2005-06, the General Fund fiscal impact in 2006-07, will be greater than $1 million for second year incentives, since the
amount of the proration will have to be made up in the second year.
The reorganization of schools into districts with 390 or more students will result in reorganization efficiencies which will reduce the
amount expended by schools to operate with less than 390 students. These efficiencies should result in a savings for property
taxpayers in those merged school districts with costs greater than their cost grouping cost prior to the merger. The state will also
realize a savings in state aid payments two years after the consolidation due to lower overall school expenditures. Lower school
spending results in lower cost group costs which will reduce state aid for schools receiving equalization aid. Any savings in state aid
will occur beginning in 2007-08.
School systems that opt to consolidate and receive incentive aid will have increased state incentive aid for two fiscal years. School
systems receiving aid may exceed budget lids by the incentive payment amount. Consolidated school systems may also have
increased expenditures related to consolidation such as retirement incentives, staff development assistance and transportation. Based
on the current school finance formula, consolidated systems may also receive stabilization aid for a couple of years after the state
incentive aid payments end. Slip Law: http://www.unicam.state.ne.us/legal/SLIP_LB1091.pdf Fiscal Note: http://www.unicam.state.ne.us/PDF/FiscalNote_LB1091_0002.pdf
Title: L.B. 1091
Source: http://www.unicam.state.ne.us
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| VA | Signed into law 04/2004 | P-12 | Relates to School division consolidation; provides for a process whereby school divisions may submit proposals for the consolidation of school divisions to include holding public hearings regarding the proposal, consolidation of and the election of a board to assure all representation for all localities, and a plan for the transfer of school property from the two divisions to one division.
School division proposals must include, among other things, (i) evidence of the cost savings to be realized by such consolidation; (ii) a plan for the transfer of title to school board property to the resulting school board; (iii) procedures and a schedule for the proposed consolidation, including completion of current division superintendent and school board member terms; (iv) a plan for proportional school board representation of the localities comprising the new school division, including details regarding the appointment or election processes currently ensuring such representation and other information as may be necessary to evidence compliance with federal and state laws governing voting rights; and (v) evidence of local support for the proposed consolidation.
For five years following completion of such consolidation, the computation of the state and local share for an educational program meeting the standards of quality for school divisions resulting from consolidations shall be the lower composite index of local ability-to-pay of the applicant school divisions, as provided in the appropriation act. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?041+ful+CHAP0917
Title: H.B. 978
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us
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| VA | Signed into law 04/2004 | P-12 | Creates a mechanism whereby any school board of a school division in which fewer than 350 students (Highland County) were included in average daily membership (ADM) for the preceding school year, upon entering into certain cost-savings agreements with a contiguous school division for the sharing of educational, administrative, or support services, shall receive the state share for basic aid computed on the basis of the composite index of local ability-to-pay of the contiguous school division, calculated annually, for a period of 15 years. Board of Education eligibility criteria will address the cost-savings and service-sharing agreements and will provide for the adjustment of the state share for basic aid, consistent with the appropriation act.
The local school board receiving the adjusted state share cannot use the additional funds received to supplant local funds appropriated for education. In addition, the adjusted state share cannot be used to reduce local operating expenditures for public education from the prior fiscal year. However, no school division shall be required to maintain a per pupil expenditure for operations that exceeds the per pupil expenditure in the prior fiscal year. If any such contractual agreements between the relevant school divisions terminate prior to the end of the applicable period, the state's obligation to provide the adjusted share shall cease.
The agreement and adjusted state payment shall be in lieu of any existing funds a locality receives from a Small School Division Assistance grant. Pursuant to §§ 22.1-26 and 22.1-27, school boards are already empowered to operate joint schools and to make agreements with adjacent school boards "for furnishing public school facilities and for school services." This bill is effective July 1, 2005. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?041+ful+CHAP0820
Title: S.B. 518
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us
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| VA | Signed into law 04/2004 | P-12 | Requires local boards to incorporate art, music, and physical education as a part of the instructional program at the elementary school level, and to employ five elementary resource positions per 1,000 students in kindergarten through grade five for art, music, and physical education.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?041+ful+CHAP0955
Title: H.B. 1014
Source: leg1.state.va.us
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| VA | Signed into law 04/2004 | P-12 | Amends section 22.1-253.13:1 and 22.1-253.13:2 . Specifies that the Standards of Learning form the core of Virginia's educational program and other educational objectives. Specifies that the state board must, at a minimum, define Standards of Learning for English, mathematics, science, history and social science. Specifies that "communication" as included in the Standards of Learning comprises listening, speaking, reading and writing. To passage on public input on proposed revisions to the Standards of Learning, adds that the department must provide and maintain Web capacity to allowing K-12 educators to submit recommendations for improvements to the Standards of Learning, when under review by the state board, as well as to the related assessments. Deletes "career education schools" from language requiring local boards to implement career and technical education programs.
Provisions (i) increase from one half-time to one full-time principal in elementary schools with fewer than 300 students; (ii) provide one full-time assistant principal for each 400 students in each school, regardless of grade level; (iv) lower the pupil-teacher ratio from 25:1 to 21:1 in middle and high schools, to ensure the provision of scheduled teacher planning time; (v) reduce the required speech pathologist caseload from 68 to 60 students; (vi) require two technology support positions per 1,000 students in kindergarten through grade 12 divisionwide; and (viii) modify the current funding mechanism for remediation.
Requires the state board to submit to the governor and the general assembly a report on the condition and needs of public education in the commonwealth and shall identify any school divisions and the specific schools therein that have failed to establish and maintain schools meeting the existing prescribed standards of quality.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?041+ful+CHAP0955
Title: H.B. 1014
Source: leg1.state.va.us
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| CO | Signed into law 03/2004 | P-12 | Permits students to participate in activities in another district if activity is not offered within a student's school district. http://www.leg.state.co.us/clics2004a/csl.nsf/fsbillcont3/0E61296035330B9087256E39000345C9?Open&file=1363_enr.pdf
Title: H.B. 1363
Source: Colorado Legislative web site
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| ID | Signed into law 03/2004 | P-12 | Amends existing law relating to school district employees to authorize the use of accrued sick leave to supplement worker's compensation payments. http://www3.state.id.us/oasis/H0602.html#billtext
Title: H.B. 602
Source: Idaho Legislative Web site
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| KS | Signed into law 03/2004 | P-12 | Proscribes general guidelines the state board must adopt in establishing rules on the transfer of territory between districts through a mediation process. http://www.kslegislature.org/bills/2004/2592.pdf
Title: H.B. 2592
Source: www.kslegislature.org
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| WA | Signed into law 03/2004 | P-12 | Provides school districts with school serving grades kindergarten through four where 25% of the students qualify for free or reduced price lunches must implement a school lunch program; provides school districts with summer academic, enrichment or remedial program where 50% of the students qualify for free or reduced price lunches must implement a summer food service program that is open to area children unless there is a compelling reason for no program.
Title: S.B. 6411
Source: StateNet
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| AR | Signed into law 02/2004 | P-12 | Allows students in administratively consolidated school districts to attend classes and programs in other schools in the district. http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2003s2/public/HB1177.pdf
Title: H.B. 1177
Source: Arkansas Legislative Web site
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| AR | Signed into law 02/2004 | P-12 | Provides administrative consolidation assistance to school districts that administratively consolidate. http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2003s2/public/HB1161.pdf
Title: H.B. 1161
Source: Arkansas Legislative Web site
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| SD | Signed into law 02/2004 | P-12 | Makes an appropriation to the Department of Education to reimburse certain school districts for consolidation incentives.
Title: S.B. 49
Source: StateNet
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| AR | Signed into law 01/2004 | P-12 | Encourages larger school districts to voluntarily merge with smaller school districts; concerns the establishment of an interim board; provides for annexation and school elections. http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2003s2/public/SB35.pdf
Title: S.B. 35
Source: Arkansas Legislative Web site
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| AR | Signed into law 01/2004 | P-12 | Provides for the continued funding support of isolated school districts. http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2003s2/public/HB1018.pdf
Title: H.B. 1018
Source: Arkansas Legislative web site
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| AR | Became law without governor's signature 01/2004 | P-12 | Relates to the public education re-organization act; to ensure equal opportunities for an adequate education to all students; provides for administrative annexation and administrative consolidation of school districts. http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2003s2/public/HB1109.pdf
Title: H.B. 1109
Source: Arkansas Legislative Web site
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| IL | Total veto stands 11/2003 | P-12 | Extends the repeal date of a Section requiring the establishment of the Chicago Schools Academic Accountability Council (from June 30, 2004 to June 30, 2009). Extends the repeal date of provisions creating the State Board of Education Fund, the State Board of Education Special Purpose Trust Fund, and the Private Business and Vocational Schools Fund (from July 16, 2003 to July 16, 2007). http://www.legis.state.il.us/legislation/billstatus.asp?DocNum=564&GAID=3&DocTypeID=SB&LegID=3195&SessionID=3
Title: S.B. 564
Source: Illinois Legislative Web site
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| MT | Rule Adoption 09/2003 | P-12 | Establishes rules regarding the definition of combined school district. MONTANA REG 4387 (SN)
Title: ARM 10.55.602
Source: StateNet
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| RI | Became law without GOVERNOR'S signature. 08/2003 | P-12 | Requires any collaborative established under this chapter to track expenditures and investments and file a report each year with the board of regents.
Title: H.B. 5458
Source: StateNet
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| LA | Signed into law 07/2003 | P-12 | Starting in the 2004-05 school year and thereafter, requires every public school serving students in grades K-6 to offer students at least 30 minutes of quality physical activity every school day.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/leg_docs/03RS/CVT2/OUT/0000KT2Y.PDF
Title: S.B. 398
Source: www.legis.state.la.us
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| LA | Signed into law 07/2003 | P-12 | Provides relative to extra compensation for noncertified school support personnel in the event such compensation is not included in the minimum foundation program formula. http://www.legis.state.la.us/bills/byinst.asp?sessionid=03RS&billid=HB1858&doctype=BT
Title: H.B. 1858
Source: StateNet
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| AK | Signed into law 06/2003 | P-12 | Relates to Community Schools; encourages school districts to maintain school buildings and equipment. http://www.legis.state.ak.us/basis/get_bill_text.asp?hsid=HB0165C&session=23
Title: H.B. 165
Source: Alaska Legislative Web site
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| FL | Vetoed 06/2003 | P-12 | Changes date by which school superintendents must notify Department of Education regarding certain instructional materials;requires publishers to provide and price adopted instructional materials on an individual basis for purchase by school districts; revises provisions relating to the issuance of purchase orders; provides that the authority in the bill must not be construed to set any future year's instructional materials allocation; makes the school district responsible for any financial commitment in purchase orders that exceeds the district's allocation for the next year.
http://www.leg.state.fl.us/house/Session/index.cfm?Mode=Bills&BI_Mode=ViewBillInfo&BillNum=1838&Chamber=Senate&Year=2003&Title=%2D%3EBill%2520Info%3AS%25201838%2D%3ESession%25202003
Title: S.B. 1838
Source: Florida Legislative Web site
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| IL | Signed into law 06/2003 | P-12 | Amends the Chicago School District Article of the School Code. Changes the name of an attendance center's professional personnel advisory committee to a professional personnel leadership committee. Provides that the meetings shall be after school. Provides that teacher members of the local school council may bring motions concerning school improvements and budget recommendations. http://www.legis.state.il.us/legislation/BillStatus.asp?DocNum=1235&GAID=3&DocTypeID=HB&LegId=1896&SessionID=3
Title: H.B. 1235
Source: Illinois Legislative Web site
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| LA | Signed into law 06/2003 | P-12 | Adds a charge of immorality as a cause for dismissal of a teacher, bus driver, or permanent employee; defines immorality as conviction of a felony offense against the public morals.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/bills/byinst.asp?sessionid=03RS&billid=HB778&doctype=BT
Title: H.B. 778
Source: www.legis.state.la.us
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| LA | Signed into law 06/2003 | P-12 | Requires a restriction which limits a person to operating only a school bus; provides that such restriction shall apply to a person who has taken a skills test in a school bus and who has taken a skills test in a school bus and who has not previously held a commercial driver's license. http://www.legis.state.la.us/bills/byinst.asp?sessionid=03RS&billid=SB141&doctype=BT
Title: S.B. 141
Source: StateNet
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| MO | Signed into law 06/2003 | P-12 | Requires that, in determining whether it is necessary to change the boundary line between seven-director districts, the board of arbitration must base its decision upon the following:
(1) The presence of school aged children in the affected area;
(2) The presence of actual educational harm to school-aged children, either due to a significant difference in the time involved in transporting students or educational deficiencies in the district which would have its boundary adversely affected; and
(3) The presence of an educational necessity, not of a commercial benefit to landowners or to the district benefitting for the proposed boundary adjustment. http://www.senate.state.mo.us/03info/billtext/tat/sb686.htm
Title: S.B. 686 (§ 162.431)
Source: www.senate.state.mo.us
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| MO | Signed into law 06/2003 | P-12 | States that any public school district or districts may designate an educational service agency for the purpose of developing, managing, and providing instructional services or programs to the participating school district or districts. Requires the educational service agency to be designated by local board contract and to operate according to state board-approved standards. Requires an educational service agency to be organized as a nonprofit corporation, with the method of selection of officers to be governed by section 355.326, RSMo. Requires an educational service agency to be considered a political subdivision of the state, with the governing board and employees subject to the conflict of interest prohibitions provided in statute. Requires all meetings of the educational service agency's governing board to be subject to open meeting provisions. Adds that nothing in this section shall relieve a participating school district from the responsibility of providing the instructional service or program which it has contracted for through an educational service agency.
http://www.senate.state.mo.us/03info/billtext/tat/sb686.htm
Title: S.B. 686 (§ 162.1180)
Source: www.senate.state.mo.us
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| OR | Signed into law 06/2003 | P-12 | Adds a new section. Repeals existence of county school districts. Requires county school districts that existed on the effective date of the 2003 Act to discontinue as a county school district and become a common school district. After that date, all laws that apply to common school districts shall apply to school districts that formerly existed as county school districts. http://pub.das.state.or.us/LEG_BILLS/PDFs/ESB11.pdf
Title: S.B. 11
Source: http://pub.das.state.or.us
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| TN | Signed into law 06/2003 | P-12 | Creates task force to establish guidelines for mold abatement in public schools.
Title: H.B. 891
Source: StateNet
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| AZ | Signed into law 05/2003 | P-12 | Requires the State Board of Education (SBE) to adopt rules for the procurement of goods and information services by school districts and charter schools using electronic online bidding. http://www.azleg.state.az.us/DocumentsForBill.asp?Bill_Number=HB2376
Title: H.B. 2376
Source: Arizona Legislative Web site
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| AZ | Signed into law 05/2003 | P-12 | States student political organizations may be granted the uncompensated use of school district property and may conduct lawful meetings on school district property. Stipulates that no person, group or organization may be denied use of or charged differentiated fees for school property based on beliefs or legal rights and requires the governing board to annually approve a fee schedule for the lease of school property.
http://www.azleg.state.az.us/DocumentsForBill.asp?Bill_Number=SB1250&x=24&y=9
Title: S.B. 1250
Source: Arizona Legislative Web site
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| AZ | Signed into law 05/2003 | P-12 | Prohibits a person acting on behalf of a school district from using school district or charter school personnel, equipment, buildings or other resources for the purpose of influencing the outcome of elections; prohibits district or charter school employees from using the authority of their positions to influence the vote or political activities of a subordinate employee; requires the Attorney General to prepare guidelines; provides civil penalties. http://www.azleg.state.az.us/DocumentsForBill.asp?Bill_Number=HB2279
Title: H.B. 2279
Source: Arizona Legislative Web site
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| CA | Adopted 05/2003 | P-12 | Establishes emergency rules concerning Leroy F. Greene Facilities Act of 1998, specifying amending the audit requirements for the Critically Overcrowded Schools (COS) program. http://ccr.oal.ca.gov/
Title: Title 2 CCR 1859.61, .105, .106, .141, .142, .145, .147, .148, .150.1, .151, .152, .153
Source: California State Web site
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| CO | Signed into law 05/2003 | P-12 | Permits a board of education of a school district to require the replacement or return of library resources by withholding a student's diploma, transcript, or grades at the end of a semester or school year; directs the school district to make a reasonable effort to obtain payment for the library resources; permits the school district to obtain payment through student to participate in graduation or continuation ceremonies. http://www.leg.state.co.us/2003a/inetcbill.nsf/fsbillcont/6F76F6BF0B7805D887256CE800735601?Open&file=1333_enr.pdf
Title: H.B. 1333
Source: Colorado Legislative Web site
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| IA | Adopted 05/2003 | P-12 | Promulgates administrative rules regarding attendance centers. Specifies that local board of a school district has discretion as to the number of attendance centers to be operated within the district, and that any determination to close an attendance center must include public notice and public involvement. Specifies guidelines regarding the closing of an attendance center. Makes decisions regarding a realignment of the grades to be taught in an attendance center.
Title: 281 IAC 19.1, 19.2, 19.3
Source: StateNet
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| IA | Signed into law 05/2003 | P-12 | Changes repeal date from 2003 to 2004 on chapter establishing statewide early intervention block grant program. Components of this program include K-3 class size reduction and K-3 diagnostic reading assessments. Chapter requires districts to annually report to the department their current class sizes for grades K-3. Chapter also requires districts to annually report to public the percentage of fourth-graders who are proficient in reading, and encourages districts to report to public on K-3 student reading proficiency. http://www.legis.state.ia.us/cgi-bin/Legislation/File_only.pl?FILE=/usr/ns-home/docs/GA/80GA/Legislation/HF/00500/HF00549/030508.html
Title: H.B. 549 (omnibus bill)
Source: www.legis.state.ia.us
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| IA | Signed into law 05/2003 | P-12 | Changes from March to December 1 the date by which a petition to reorganize districts must be filed with the affected area education agency board. Changes from November 1 to July 15 the date by which the affected boards must submit the completed reorganization plan to the state board. Changes from February 1 to September 30 the date by which the state board must approve or disapprove the districts' reorganization plan. Specifies that the state board may give a district reorganization plan approval contingent upon compliance with state board recommendations; requires a contingently approved plan to returned with modifications to the department by October 30. Eliminates language allowing plans submitted to the state board after November 1 to take effect by July 1 of the succeeding fiscal year.
Creates new subsection requiring the area education agency, within 15 days of its notification by the state board of approval of the area education agency's reorganization plan or dissolution proposal, to notify by certified mail the school districts in the area education agency boundaries, the districts and area education agencies contiguous with its boundaries, and any other district under contract with the area education agency, of the state board's approval of the plan, and to give the department a copy of any notice sent for these purposes. Requires a petition to join or be released from an area education agency to be filed no more than 45 days after the state board approves a reorganization or dissolution plan. Specifies that district board may petition the board of their current area education agency and the newly reorganizated area education agency to join the newly reorganized area education agency within 45 days of the state board's approval.
See Sections 21-29: http://www.legis.state.ia.us/cgi-bin/Legislation/File_only.pl?FILE=/usr/ns-home/docs/GA/80GA/Legislation/HF/00500/HF00549/030508.html
Title: H.B. 549 (omnibus bill)
Source: www.legis.state.ia.us
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| IA | Vetoed 05/2003 | P-12 | Removes the contract requirement for substitute and part-time school bus drivers.
http://www.legis.state.ia.us/GA/80GA/Session.1/HJournal/02200/02251.html and Section 51: http://www.legis.state.ia.us/cgi-bin/Legislation/File_only.pl?FILE=/usr/ns-home/docs/GA/80GA/Legislation/HF/00500/HF00549/030508.html
Title: H.B. 549 (omnibus bill)
Source: www.legis.state.ia.us
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| IA | Signed into law 05/2003 | P-12 | Adds that school bus driver must be immediately suspended from duties, pending termination hearing by district board or authorities of nonpublic school, if a change in circumstances indicates the driver is no longer physically or mentally competent. Specifies what constitutes a change in circumstances for an insulin-dependent diabetic. Adds that an insulin-dependent diabetic may drive school bus if doctor provides a signed statement that the results of an annual physical examination show the individual is physically capable of performing the required functions despite insulin dependency. Specifies under what circumstances an insulin-dependent diabetic may be allowed to operate or barred from operating a school bus. Requires district or authorities of nonpublic school employing insulin-dependent diabetic as a school bus driver to monitor the diabetic for compliance with enumerated requirements. See Sections 58-59: http://www.legis.state.ia.us/cgi-bin/Legislation/File_only.pl?FILE=/usr/ns-home/docs/GA/80GA/Legislation/HF/00500/HF00549/030508.html
Title: H.B. 549 (omnibus bill)
Source: www.legis.state.ia.us
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| MD | Signed into law 05/2003 | P-12 | Relates to the pilot program to use solar energy in public school buildings. Extends program from solely newly constructed buildings to also include existing or renovated public schools. Specifies how much of an elementary, middle or high school's electrical energy needs/demand the grant will cover for conversion to solar energy. http://mlis.state.md.us/2003rs/bills/sb/sb0002t.rtf
Title: S.B. 2
Source: StateNet
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| ND | Signed into law 05/2003 | P-12 | Beginning July 2, 2003, a high school district may not become an elementary district. http://www.state.nd.us/lr/assembly/58-2003/special-session/bill_text/DBOP0500.pdf
Title: S.B. 2421 (Second of Four New Sections)
Source: http://www.state.nd.us/lr/assembly/58-2003/special-session/
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| ND | Signed into law 05/2003 | P-12 | If school districts participating in joint powers agreements wish to receive reimbursement for expenses, as provided in section 19 of this Act, the school districts must request that the superintendent of public instruction approve their joint powers agreement. In order for the superintendent of public instruction to approve a joint powers agreement, the superintendent shall determine and annually verify that:
1. a. The participating school districts are contiguous; and b. (1) The total land mass of the participating school districts exceeds 4000 square miles [1035995 hectares];
(2) The total land mass of the participating school districts exceeds two thousand 500 square miles [647497 hectares] and the participating school districts number at least six; or
(3) The total land mass of the participating school districts exceeds 2500 square miles [1035995 hectares] and the total number of students
in average daily membership in the participating school districts exceeds 2500.
2. The joint powers agreement provides that a school district contiguous to any school district
already participating in the joint powers agreement may become a participant in the
agreement at any time.
Also adds specific provisions concerning joint powers. http://www.state.nd.us/lr/assembly/58-2003/special-session/bill_text/DBOP0500.pdf
Title: S.B. 2421 (Third of Four New Sections)
Source: http://www.state.nd.us/lr/assembly/58-2003/special-session
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| NV | Signed into law 05/2003 | P-12 | Authorizes school districts to open public school libraries to general public during times that are not regular school hours.
Title: A.B. 407
Source: StateNet
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| OK | Signed into law 05/2003 | P-12 | Adds provision to allow certain nonclassified personnel who return to work after retirement to be paid without penalty to their retirement. http://www2.lsb.state.ok.us/2003-04SB/sb663_enr.rtf
Title: S.B. 663
Source: http://www2.lsb.state.ok.us
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| OK | Signed into law 05/2003 | P-12 | Renames and updates the Oklahoma Voluntary Consolidation and Annexation Act and Fund. Provides various financial incentives for district consolidation or annexation. Beginning July 1, 2003, any school district that participates in consolidation or annexation is to be exempt from the fiscal penalty (assessed in this subsection) for the school year in which the consolidation or annexation occurs and for the next three (3) fiscal years. Beginning July 1, 2003, school districts that participate in consolidation or annexation pursuant to the provisions of the Oklahoma School Voluntary Consolidation and Annexation Act are to be exempt from the provisions which relate to penalties for violation of class size limitations for the year in which the consolidation or annexation occurs and for the next five (5) fiscal years. http://www2.lsb.state.ok.us/2003-04HB/hb1153_enr.rtf
Title: H.B. 1153
Source: http://www2.lsb.state.ok.us
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| OK | Signed into law 05/2003 | P-12 | Allows the boards of two or more school districts to contract with one superintendent to serve as superintendent of the school districts. Also allows boards of education of two or more school districts to enter into a mutual contract or separate contracts with a superintendent, administrator, or teacher or with a person to provide support services, to serve as superintendent, administrator, or teacher, as appropriately qualified, or to provide support services, for each contracting district upon such terms and conditions as the parties may agree. Allows a teacher to contract with more than one school district for the same school year. http://www2.lsb.state.ok.us/2003-04SB/sb216_enr.rtf
Title: S.B. 216
Source: http://www2.lsb.state.ok.us
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| TN | Signed into law 05/2003 | P-12 | Requests the state board to study the issue of grading in Tennessee public schools with special emphasis on the area of numerical/letter grade equivalency. The state board is to report its conclusions and recommendations to the House and Senate
Education Committees by January 1, 2004. http://www.legislature.state.tn.us/bills/currentga/BILL/HJR0485.pdf
Title: H.J.R. 485
Source: http://www.legislature.state.tn.us
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| TX | Signed into law 05/2003 | P-12 | Sec. 28.0212. FINALITY OF GRADE. (a) An examination or course grade issued by a classroom teacher is final and may not be changed unless the grade is arbitrary, erroneous, or not consistent with the school district grading policy applicable to the grade, as determined by the board of trustees of the school district in which the teacher is employed. (b) A determination by a school district board of trustees
under Subsection (a) is not subject to appeal. This subsection does not prohibit an appeal related to a student's eligibility to participate in extracurricular activities. http://www.capitol.state.tx.us/cgi-bin/tlo/textframe.cmd?LEG=78&SESS=R&CHAMBER=H&BILLTYPE=B&BILLSUFFIX=01949&VERSION=5&TYPE=B
Title: H.B. 1949
Source: http://www.capitol.state.tx.us
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| VT | Signed into law 05/2003 | P-12 | Requires that a school district participate in the federal school breakfast program, and that a district may vote every two years on whether to exempts itself from participation in federal school meals programs.
Title: H.B. 54
Source: StateNet
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| VT | Signed into law 05/2003 | P-12 | This act assigns duties appropriately carried out by staff and which are currently assigned to a supervisory union board to the superintendent; repeals law relating to calculation of the equalized yield amount which is no longer necessary; updates law relating to possession of a firearm at school to synchronize with changes in federal law; clarifies that all school districts must follow accounting procedures adopted by the state board of education; clarifies that a school district must report the balance of reserve funds in its annual report to the electorate; clarifies the process for voting for an at-large school board member for a union school district; clarifies which school board determines the district of residence for a pupil whose legal residence is unclear; establishes that school registers must be filed within the supervisory union; clarifies that when a school district has an alternate method of paying a deficit, it is not required to add the amount to its budget; authorizes school boards to purchase liability insurance through participation in an intermunicipal agreement; authorizes payment of state aid to gores and unorganized towns and establishes a tax for spending in excess of state aid; reorganizes the state advisory council on special education to comply with changes in federal law; establishes that data changes used to calculate state aid which are made due to an error or due to an actual change in information are treated the same way; stipulates that a school district which eliminates the office of auditor must have a Certified Public Accountant conduct an annual audit; establishes that a student, if necessary, may count credits earned at technical education centers toward graduation; stipulates that credits earned at a technical center shall be applied toward school graduation requirements; and provides that state aid paid for adult diploma students shall be based on a two-year average. http://www.leg.state.vt.us/docs/legdoc.cfm?URL=/docs/2004/acts/ACT036.HTM
Title: H.B. 477
Source: http://www.leg.state.vt.us
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| AR | Signed into law 04/2003 | P-12 | Requires each school district to report compliance with personnel policy committee requirements. http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2003/public/HB2802.pdf
Title: H.B. 2802
Source: Arkansas Legislative Web site
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| AR | Signed into law 04/2003 | P-12 | Amends the laws pertaining to creators of a school by detachment. http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2003/public/HB2608.pdf
Title: H.B. 2608
Source: Arkansas Legislative Web site
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| AR | Signed into law 04/2003 | P-12 | Requires all school districts to participate in public school choice. http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2003/public/SB242.pdf
Title: S.B. 242
Source: Arkansas Legislative Web site
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| AR | Signed into law 04/2003 | P-12 | Allows school districts to enter into public-private partnerships whereby the school district enters into lease-purchase agreements for school buildings built by the private entities with facilities bonds that are exempt from federal taxes; provides for short- term lease-purchase agreements. http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2003/public/HB2272.pdf
Title: H.B. 2272
Source: Arkansas Legislative Web site
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| AR | Signed into law 04/2003 | P-12 | Requires cooperative schools to use the Arkansas Public School Computer Network. http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2003/public/HB2459.pdf
Title: H.B. 2459
Source: Arkansas Legislative Web site
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| AR | Signed into law 04/2003 | P-12 | Requires written personnel policies for public school classified employees.
Title: H.B. 2717
Source: Arkansas Legislative Web site
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| AR | Signed into law 04/2003 | P-12 | Requires the Department of Education to define and publish academic standards and expected outcomes for students in pre-kindergarten through grade 12; requires academic standards and expected outcomes be adopted and implemented by local school boards. http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2003/public/HB2775.pdf
Title: H.B. 2775
Source: Arkansas Legislative Web site
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| AR | Signed into law 04/2003 | P-12 | Provides for cost of living salary increases for classified school employees tied to the consumer price index. http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2003/public/HB2520.pdf
Title: H.B. 2520
Source: Arkansas Legislative Web site
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| AR | Signed into law 04/2003 | P-12 | Requires certain data be made available on the Department of Education website; includes financial data reports for school districts, administrator and teacher salary and benefit data, and local and state revenue sources. http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2003/public/HB2887.pdf
Title: H.B. 2887
Source: Arkansas Legislative Web site
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| AR | Signed into law 04/2003 | P-12 | Provides for an interim personnel policies committee in the event of consolidation of school districts.
Title: H.B. 2842
Source: StateNet
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| AZ | Signed into law 04/2003 | P-12 | Deletes requirement for school districts to have prior approval of Board of Education in order to contract with each other; adds Board to provisions dealing with appealable agency actions insofar as the actions are related to certificate issuance, renewal or the discipline of certificate holders. http://www.azleg.state.az.us/DocumentsForBill.asp?Bill_Number=HB2051
Title: H.B. 2051
Source: State Legislative Web site
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| AZ | Became law without governor's signature 04/2003 | P-12 | Authorizes School Facilities Board to withhold building renewal monies until school districts comply with reporting requirements. http://www.azleg.state.az.us/DocumentsForBill.asp?Bill_Number=HB2096
Title: H.B. 2096
Source: Arizona State Web site
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| IA | Signed into law 04/2003 | P-12 | Requires the insurance division of the department of commerce to establish a school health insurance reform team study and to make recommendations to the general assembly; provides for review of affordable health insurance coverage for school district employees, continuity of coverage, premium rating systems, restrictions on premium rates and establishment of a school district health reinsurance program. http://www.legis.state.ia.us/GA/80GA/Legislation/SF/00300/SF00386/Current.html
Title: S.F. 386
Source: www.legis.state.ia.us
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| ID | Signed into law 04/2003 | P-12 | Relates to the school bond levy equalization support program to change the time limitations which govern certain bond and bond levy amounts; provides a special application of state payment provisions; requires reports by school districts. http://www3.state.id.us/oasis/H0319.html
Title: H.B. 319
Source: State legislative web site
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| KS | Signed into law 04/2003 | P-12 | Allows Kansas City board to establish and maintain a public library and branch libraries, to be paid for from general, building and retirement funds in the same fashion as school expenditures. To maintain this library and branches, the board is authorized to levy taxes. Authorizes the board to increase mill levy and establishes procedures for this activity.
http://www.kslegislature.org/bills/2004/82.pdf
Title: S.B. 82
Source: www.kslegislature.org
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| MS | Signed into law 04/2003 | P-12 | Allows any licensed employee to be credited with a professional leave allowance with pay for every day of absence caused by required attendance at meetings pertaining to official state business and authorized by local board policy. Changes references in sick and personal leave policy from "absent licensed employee" to "absent employee." In same section, changes references to "substitute teachers" to "substitute employees." Allows substitute teachers to be paid from minimum education program funds.
Specifies that except for in December, all employees' salaries are to be paid on at least a monthly basis according to a system established by the local board. Specifies that, regardless of the reason employment ended, any school employee whose employment terminates during a school term is to be paid only for the part of the school term that the employee actually worked.
In determining a teacher's "year of teaching experience," if a teacher surpasses the number of days the state board has determined a teacher may not be under contract but may still be employed, the teacher must not be credited a year of teaching experience.
http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2003/html/HB/0700-0799/HB0742SG.htm
Title: H.B. 742
Source: billstatus.ls.state.ms.us
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| WA | Signed into law 04/2003 | P-12 | Authorizes a petitioner or school district to appeal a decision by the regional committee to the state board based on the claim that the regional committee failed to follow the applicable statutory and regulatory procedures or acted in an arbitrary and capricious manner. Any such appeal shall be based on the record and the appeal must be filed within thirty days of the final decision of the regional committee. Provides that a proposed change in school district organization by transfer of territory from one school district to another may be initiated by a petition in writing presented to the educational service district superintendent: (1) Signed by at least fifty percent plus one of the active registered voters residing in the territory proposed to be transferred; or (2) Signed by a majority of the members of the board of directors of one of the districts affected by a proposed transfer of territory. Adds that state board rules under subsection (3) of this section shall provide for giving consideration to the following: Student educational opportunities as measured by the percentage of students performing at each level of the statewide mandated assessments and data regarding student attendance, graduation, and dropout rates. http://www.leg.wa.gov/pub/billinfo/2003-04/Senate/5425-5449/5437_pl.pdf
Title: S.B. 5437
Source: StateNet
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| WV | Signed into law 04/2003 | P-12 | Relates to county boards of education to lease school property no longer needed.
Title: S.B. 522
Source: StateNet
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| KY | Signed into law 03/2003 | P-12 | Requires the department to create a program to promote the integration of the arts and foreign languages into the elementary school program. Schools are to submit applications, with the department granting funds to at least one school per region, giving preference to schools that do not already have a comprehensive arts and foreign language program. Requires programs to include a number of specified components, including integrating arts and foreign language across the curriculum and instruction in each of the four disciplines of dance, drama, music and the visual arts that includes the core content skills and knowledge taught in a sequential manner and includes all students in the elementary school. http://www.lrc.state.ky.us/RECORD/03RS/SB154/bill.doc
Title: S.B. 154
Source: www.lrc.state.ky.us
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| KY | Signed into law 03/2003 | P-12 | Allows a local superintendent to waive the requirement that a director of pupil personnel in a district devote his or her entire time to the duties of the office. The superintendent must report this action to the commissioner of education. http://www.lrc.state.ky.us/RECORD/03RS/HB224/bill.doc
Title: H.B. 224
Source: www.lrc.state.ky.us
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| MT | Signed into law 03/2003 | P-12 | Revises the laws related to school boundary transfers; establishes criteria, a standard of proof and procedures for territory transfer hearings; provides for appeals in district court; authorizes an appeal of the county superintendent's decision to the district court. http://data.opi.state.mt.us/bills/2003/billhtml/SB0016.htm
Title: S.B. 16
Source: StateNet
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| UT | Signed into law 03/2003 | P-12 | Provides a process for creating new school districts. The act provides for the transfer of school property to the new school district, a tax on property within the new school district to pay for the new district's proportionate share of the existing district's debt, and for the election of new
school board members. http://www.le.state.ut.us/~2003/bills/hbillenr/hb0169.htm
Title: H.B. 169
Source: http://www.le.state.ut.us
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| SD | Signed into law 02/2003 | P-12 | Defines the consolidation of school districts. (1) "Joint district," a school district having territory in two or more adjoining counties. Jurisdiction within a joint district is determined as provided in § 13-5-14; (2) "Party," any person or municipality interested in any proceedings under the provisions of this chapter; (3) "Plan," a plan proposing the formation or elimination of one or more school district entities; (4) "Reorganization," the formation, consolidation, or subdivision of school districts; (5) "Requirements and limitations for reorganization," those requirements and limitations provided by law; (6) "State board," the South Dakota Board of Education; (7) "Consolidation," the combining of two or more districts in which a new district and school board are created.
Title: H.B. 1040
Source: http://legis.state.sd.us
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| NJ | Signed into law 01/2003 | P-12 | Provides for mandatory participation in a school breakfast program for schools in a local or regional school district with a certain percentage of students enrolled in the school for the previous year were eligible for free or reduced meals under the federal School Lunch Program; provides procedures for submission of the program plan.
Title: S.B. 1498
Source: StateNet
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| MI | Signed into law 12/2002 | P-12 | Clarifies liability for certain school construction projects; provides that the architect or engineer preparing the plans and specifications and the person supervising the construction of a school building are responsible for assuring the construction in a workmanlike manner of a building with sufficient structural strength and fire resistance according to all applicable codes. http://www.michiganlegislature.org/documents/2001-2002/publicact/pdf/2002-PA-0627.pdf
Title: S.B. 670
Source: StateNet
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| CA | Signed into law 09/2002 | P-12 | Repeals certain provisions of the California Classroom Library Materials Act of 1999. Authorizes a school district to use funding from the Instructional Materials Fund to purchase classroom library materials on the condition the school district develop a district-wide classroom library plan. Authorizes the allowances to reflect increases and decreases in enrollment. Establishes a Instructional Materials Funding Realignment Program.
Title: A.B. 1781
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| AZ | Became law without governor's signature 06/2002 | P-12 | Establishes moratorium from November 30, 2002 until June 30, 2004 on creation of new joint technological education districts unless specified requirements are met. Also bans districts from joining existing joint technological education districts between effective date of this act and June 30, 2004, unless specified criteria are met. Limits average daily membership of new joint technological education districts (meeting specified requirements) to 450 students during first two years of operation. See Section 51: http://www.azleg.state.az.us/legtext/45leg/2r/bills/hb2710c.htm
Title: Omnibus--H.B. 2710
Source: http://www.azleg.state.az.us/legtext/45leg/2r/bills/hb2710c.htm
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| AZ | Became law without governor's signature 06/2002 | P-12 | Creates new sections permitting 1) school facilities board to acquire school facilities to permit local districts to use through a lease-to-own program; and 2) a school district to acquire facilities through lease-to-own arrangements with the school facilities board. Establishes $200 million per fiscal year as the maximum amount for which school facilities board may enter into lease-to-own transactions. See section 35: http://www.azleg.state.az.us/legtext/45leg/2r/bills/hb2710c.htm
Title: Omnibus--H.B. 2710
Source: http://www.azleg.state.az.us
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| AZ | Became law without governor's signature 06/2002 | P-12 | States that dates by which actions must be completed do not apply to the Arizona state schools for the deaf and the blind. Requires that school facilities board ensure that deficiencies in the facilities for these schools are assessed by December 31, 2002. See Section 52: http://www.azleg.state.az.us/legtext/45leg/2r/bills/hb2710c.htm
Title: Omnibus--H.B. 2710
Source: http://www.azleg.state.az.us
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| AZ | Became law without governor's signature 06/2002 | P-12 | Requires that school building inspection carried out by school facilities board every five years ensure compliance wtih routine preventative maintenance guidelines as established in code. Requires school facilities board to randomly select 20 districts every 30 months for inspection. As of August 15, 2004, requires school facilities board to report to the joint committee on capital revenue the amounts required for the building renewal fund and new school facilities fund for the state schools for deaf and the blind for the succeeding two fiscal years, which amounts must be incorporated in any request for building renewal and new school facilities funds. Mandates that by October 15 each year, the school facilities board submit for review to the joint committee on capital review demographic assumptions, projected construction schedule and new school construction cost estimates for coming fiscal year. Requires every district to develop routine preventative maintenance guidelines for its facilities by October 1, 2002, which must be submitted to the school facilities board for analysis and approval by February 1, 2003. If school facilities board deems district facility inadequately maintained pursuant to district's routine preventative maintenance guidelines, district must use building renewal funds to bring facility into compliance with district's routine preventative maintenance guidelines. Allows school facilities board to transfer monies between specified facilities funds under enumerated circumstances. http://www.azleg.state.az.us/legtext/45leg/2r/bills/hb2710c.htm
Title: Omnibus--H.B. 2710
Source: http://www.azleg.state.az.us
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| AZ | Became law without governor's signature 06/2002 | P-12 | Eliminates provision in statute that requires school-wide audit team in the office of the auditor general to randomly audit each school district at least once every five years. Replaces it with provision requiring auditor general to randomly select the school districts to be audited each year, subject to review by the joint legislative audit committee. See section 40: http://www.azleg.state.az.us/legtext/45leg/2r/bills/hb2710c.htm
Title: Omnibus--H.B. 2710
Source: http://www.azleg.state.az.us
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| AZ | Became law without governor's signature 06/2002 | P-12 | Makes addition to subsection forbidding local board to reduce pupil square footage when such action would cause the district to fall below minimum adequate gross square footage requirements without written permission of school facilities board. Addition specifies that reduction includes a reconfiguration of grades resulting in reduction of pupil square footage of any grade level, but that this subsection does not apply to a maximum of one-year reconfiguration of grades to accommodate new school construction. http://www.azleg.state.az.us/legtext/45leg/2r/bills/hb2710c.htm
Title: Omnibus--H.B. 2710
Source: www.azleg.state.az.us
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| AZ | Became law without governor's signature 06/2002 | P-12 | Estabishes specific circumstances under which excess square footage in new construction may not be included in the gross square footage. Also mandates that school facilities board, in measuring square footage per pupil requirements, demand that excess square footage constructed after July 1, 2002 and that is not excluded under above circumstances meet minimum school facility adequacy guidelines to be eligible to receive building renewal funds. See section 36: http://www.azleg.state.az.us/legtext/45leg/2r/bills/hb2710c.htm
Title: Omnibus--H.B. 2710
Source: http://www.azleg.state.az.us
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| CO | Signed into law 06/2002 | P-12 | Expands inquiry process at nonpublic schools from applicants to include employees of such schools. If nonpublic school employee is subject of inquiry, he/she must submit a complete set of his/her fingerprints to the governing board of the school. Requires department to forward nonpublic school employee fingerprints to state bureau of investigation for completion of state and national criminal history record check. Department is designated as authorized agency to receive and disseminate information concerning the results of a national criminal background check of nonpublic school employee, and department must inform the governing board whether the background check has confirmed any conviction, plea of no contest, deferred sentence or deferred prosecution. Expands requirement beyond misdemeanor to add that when there is good cause to believe a nonlicensed staff member of a school district has been convicted of a felony or misdemeanor other than a misdemeanor traffic offense or traffic infraction, the district must require such person to provide the district with a complete set of his/her fingerprints within 20 days of receipt of written notification from the district. Eliminates phrase that this requirement shall apply to only those personnel employed by the district since January 1, 1991. Eliminates language exempting from this requirement any person who has submitted fingerprints to any Colorado school district in the two-year period immediately preceding date of receipt of written notification requesting fingerprints and who has given written consent to the transfer of copies of previously submitted fingerprints to the requesting district. http://www.leg.state.co.us/2002a/inetcbill.nsf/fsbillcont/06A41A17C4F3B75587256B3D00642F0C?Open&file=1459_enr.pdf
Title: H.B. 1459
Source: http://www.leg.state.co.us
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| KS | Signed into law 06/2002 | P-12 | Concerns certain school districts and the computation of state financial aid; relates to powers and duties of schools and school districts; relates to consolidation of districts and the transfer of territory; provides that the State Board of Education must provide for a community service program to be offered to all accredited high schools in the state.
Title: S.B. 551
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| AZ | Signed into law 05/2002 | P-12 | Allows the governing boards of a unified school district, adjacent common and union high school districts to authorize minor boundary adjustments to the three school districts, if the current statutory obligations are met; declares that if there are no electors within the geographic boundaries of the territory to be annexed, a majority of the property owners in the territory may submit the petition; sets forth the boundaries of the annexed portion. http://www.azleg.state.az.us/legtext/45leg/2r/summary/h.hb2084_5-01-02_astransmittedtogovernor.doc.htm
Title: H.B. 2084
Source: www.azleg.state.az.us
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| AZ | Signed into law 05/2002 | P-12 | Relates to school district insurance; permits public agencies to jointly purchase workers' compensation, property and liability insurance or reinsurance; provides for formation of pools for health, accident, life and disability insurance; permits private, nonprofit educational institutions to participate in the pool if a bond or comparable financial security is posted; provides for contracting with a third party for coverage. http://www.azleg.state.az.us/legtext/45leg/2r/laws/0240.htm
Title: H.B. 2198
Source: www.azleg.state.az.us
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| AZ | Signed into law 05/2002 | P-12 | Allows the governing boards of a unified school district, adjacent common and union high school districts to authorize minor boundary adjustments to the three school districts, if statutory obligations are met; declares that if there are no electors within the geographic boundaries of the territory to be annexed, a majority of the property owners in the territory may submit the petition; sets forth the boundaries of the annexed portion. http://www.azleg.state.az.us/legtext/45leg/2r/bills/hb2084h.htm
Title: H.B. 2084
Source: www.azleg.state.az.us
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| AZ | Signed into law 05/2002 | P-12 | Establishes state-level school district unification and consolidation commission; establishes required membership and duties. http://www.azleg.state.az.us/legtext/45leg/2r/laws/0316.htm
Title: S.B. 1180
Source: www.azleg.state.az.us
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| AZ | Signed into law 05/2002 | P-12 | Requires thirty days' written notice to all parents of students at school board is considering closing prior to community meeting on closure of school site. The notice must include the reasons for the proposed closure, and must be held at least thirty days before voting in a public meeting to close the school. This paragraph does not apply if the facility is being closed because it endangers student or employee health or safety. http://www.azleg.state.az.us/legtext/45leg/2r/laws/0316.htm
Title: S.B. 1180
Source: www.azleg.state.az.us
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| FL | Signed into law 05/2002 | P-12 | According to state legislative summary, "To ensure that educational facilities information used by the legislature is accurate, [section] is amended to provide that the department is to conduct an on-site review of a statistically valid sample of 5% of the facilities reported to the Florida Inventory of School Houses [FISH] by each school district. If the information provided by the district is less than 95% accurate, the district must submit revised and corrected data to the FISH. If the district fails to submit corrected data that is at least 95% accurate within one year from the date of notification by the department, the commissioner of education may exercise discretion of withholding future state fixed capital outlay funds until such time as the district submits corrected information; [section] is amended to provide that the department is to conduct an in-depth analyses [sic] each year of a representative sample of five school districts selected from among the districts with surveys showing the largest need-to-revenue ratio based on the five-year fixed capital outlay revenue projection. If the districts survey does not accurately project its facilities needs it must revise its survey. If a district fails to revise its survey to accurately project its facility needs the commissioner may exercise discretion of withholding future state fixed capital outlay funds until such time as the district corrects its survey." See http://www.leg.state.fl.us/data/session/2002E/Senate/bills/billtext/pdf/s0020Eer.pdf
Title: S.B. 20E
Source: http://www.leg.state.fl.us
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| FL | Signed into law 05/2002 | P-12 | Allows school boards more time to decide on personnel nominations when the Legislature adjourns before May 31.
Title: S.B. 20E
Source: http://www.leg.state.fl.us
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| FL | Signed into law 05/2002 | P-12 | New section forbids building of K-12 school on or adjacent to known contaminated site unless action has been taken to ascertain that students will not have contact with air, water or soil contaminants at a level that poses a threat to human health or the environment. Requires local board to conduct appropriate due diligence including all appropriate inquiry into the use of property before building a K-12 school on the site. If contaminants are found at levels that pose a threat to human health or the environment, the board must undertake appropriate site rehabilitation before beginning construction on the school site. See bill section 832, page 1539, line 1 ff: http://www.leg.state.fl.us/data/session/2002E/Senate/bills/billtext/pdf/s0020Eer.pdf
Title: S.B. 20E
Source: http://www.leg.state.fl.us
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| FL | Signed into law 05/2002 | P-12 | Eliminates subsection allowing districts to employ community education coordinators to promote, coordinate, organize, and administer community education programs. See bill section 239, page 596, line 17 ff: http://www.leg.state.fl.us/data/session/2002E/Senate/bills/billtext/pdf/s0020Eer.pdf
Title: S.B. 20E
Source: http://www.leg.state.fl.us
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| FL | Signed into law 05/2002 | P-12
Postsec.
Community College | Requires state department rules re: accounts and financial records of districts, community colleges and universities to adhere to the requirements of the Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB) for State and Local Government, that financial accounts include provisions unique to K-12 districts, community colleges and universities, and provide for data to be reported to the National Center of Education Statistics and other governmental and professional educational data information services as appropriate. See See bill section 526, page 11, line 9 ff: http://www.leg.state.fl.us/data/session/2002E/Senate/bills/billtext/pdf/s0020Eer.pdf
Title: S.B. 20E
Source: http://www.leg.state.fl.us
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| FL | Signed into law 05/2002 | P-12 | Eliminates date for purgation of certain relocatable classrooms and establishes system by which districts may obtain permission to continue using relocatables as classrooms within the five-year work program. Plan to use existing relocatable facilities must be evaluated and approved by state commissioner by January 1, 2003. According to legislative summary, "Relocatables that do not meet state standards at the end of the work program may no longer be used as classrooms. This does not negate the statutory requirement that relocatable classrooms over 20 years of age that were used as classrooms during the FY 1998-99 must be removed from service by July 1, 2003." See bill section 814, page 1498, line 21 ff: http://www.leg.state.fl.us/data/session/2002E/Senate/bills/billtext/pdf/s0020Eer.pdf
Title: S.B. 20E
Source: http://www.leg.state.fl.us
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| FL | Signed into law 05/2002 | P-12 | Creates new section mandating that districts report to the department by February 1, 2004 on their participation in federal summer food service program. See bill section 272, page 643, line 23 ff: http://www.leg.state.fl.us/data/session/2002E/Senate/bills/billtext/pdf/s0020Eer.pdf
Title: S.B. 20E
Source: http://www.leg.state.fl.us
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| FL | Signed into law 05/2002 | P-12
Postsec. | To reduce the anonymity of students in large schools, encourages local boards to adopt policies to encourage any school that does not meet the definition of a small school to subdivide into schools-within-a-school. Beginnning July 1, 2003, all plans for new educational facilities to be constructed within a district and reflected in the 5-year school district facilities work plan must be plans for small schools in order to promote increased learning and more effective use of school facilities. Small schools are defined as 500 or under for elementaries; at or under 700 for K-8: 700 or under for middle schools; and 900 or less for high schools. Section 1011.76 creates the Small School District Stabilization Program to assist school districts in rural communities that document economic conditions or other significant community influences that negatively impact the school district. The purpose of the program is to provide technical assistance and financial support to maintain the stability of the educational program in the school district. A rural community means a county with a population of 75,000 or less; or a county with a population of 100,000 or less that is contiguous to a county with a population of 75,000 or less.In order to participate in this program, a school district must be located in a rural area of critical economic concern designated by the Executive Office of the Governor and the district school board must submit a resolution to the Office of Tourism, Trade, and Economic Development requesting participation in the program. http://www.leg.state.fl.us/data/session/2002E/Senate/bills/billtext/pdf/s0020Eer.pdf
Title: S.B. 20E
Source: http://www.leg.state.fl.us
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| AL | Signed into law 04/2002 | P-12 | Relating to the salaries of public education employees, to provide for a revision of the State Minimum Salary Schedule and to reflect pay increases of three percent beginning with the fiscal year 2002-2003; to provide that each certificated employee of certain boards of education shall receive the pay increase according to placement on the appropriate salary step and in addition to the salary earned during the previous year; to require the appropriate increases on the State Minimum Salary Schedule; to provide support employees with a three percent cost-of-living adjustment; to provide the employees of other public educational institutions and schools with a three percent cost-of-living adjustment; to provide for an across-the-board salary increase of all two-year postsecondary salary schedules, and to establish other requirements on the two-year postsecondary salary schedules; to establish definitions; to establish miscellaneous pay provisions; to require appropriations in the annual budget act to meet the re
quirements of this act; and, in connection therewith, would have as its purpose or effect the requirement of a new or increased expenditure of local funds.http://alisdb.legislature.state.al.us/acas/searchableinstruments/2002rs/bills/hb340.htm
Title: H.B. 340
Source: alisdb.legislature.state.al.us
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| HI | Signed into law 04/2002 | P-12 | States that a school bus or van operator shall be properly licensed to operate the category of vehicles that the operator operates as a school bus or van and shall comply with the standards of the department of transportation. http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/sessioncurrent/bills/hb2580_.htm
Title: H.B. 2580
Source: www.capitol.hawaii.gov
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| LA | Signed into law 04/2002 | P-12 | Reinstates provisions providing for the probationary period of a school employee who is promoted in a school system with a population of 425,000 or more. http://www.legis.state.la.us/leg_docs/021ES/CVT8/OUT/0000JIZD.PDF
Title: S.B. 35A
Source: www.legis.state.la.us
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| LA | Signed into law 04/2002 | P-12 | Allows parish governing authorities to consolidate certain precincts; relates to the redistricting and reapportionment of a parish, city, or other local public school board.
Title: S.B. 65A
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| MD | Signed into law 04/2002 | P-12 | Authorizes a county board to participate in contracts for goods or commodities awarded by other public agencies or intergovernmental purchasing organizations; authorizes the advertisement of bids for specified procurements; authorizes nonpublic schools to participate in specified contracts for goods or commodities; requires Department of Education to establish a process that allows access to information about contracts for goods or commodities held by public agencies or intergovernmental purchasing organizations. http://mlis.state.md.us/2002rs/bills/sb/sb0480t.rtf
Title: S.B. 480
Source: mlis.state.md.us
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| MD | Signed into law 04/2002 | P-12 | Authorizes a county board to participate in contracts for goods or commodities awarded by other public agencies or intergovernmental purchasing organizations; authorizes the advertisement of bids for procurements; authorizes nonpublic schools to participate in contracts for goods or commodities. http://mlis.state.md.us/2002rs/bills/hb/hb0492t.rtf
Title: H.B. 492
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| MD | Signed into law 04/2002 | P-12 | Redistricts the Board of Education districts of Montgomery County; alters compensation received by the president; does not apply to incumbent president. http://mlis.state.md.us/2002rs/bills/hb/hb0712t.rtf
Title: H.B. 712
Source: mlis.state.md.us
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| MS | Signed into law 04/2002 | P-12 | Establishes rules for district reapportionment or consolidation; addresses composition of governing boards of reconstituted districts. http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2002/html/SB/2800-2899/SB2864SG.htm
Title: S.B. 2864
Source: billstatus.ls.state.ms.us
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| IA | Signed into law 03/2002 | P-12 | Relates to the reception or dissolution of area education agencies.
Title: S.B. 2260
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| ID | Signed into law 03/2002 | P-12 | Relates to public school students attending school in another state by deleting language which is in conflict with the border district allowance as calculated pursuant to the provisions of the educational support program.
Title: S.B. 1363
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| ID | Signed into law 03/2002 | P-12 | Amends existing law to clarify requirements for the abatement of unsafe or unhealthy conditions in school buildings; defines a serious safety hazard; provides for a response to a serious safety hazard within the time specified and for an appeal of the finding; authorizes injunctive relief for failure to comply with a notice or order relating to a serious safety hazard; provides for penalties for violations. http://www3.state.id.us/oasis/S1434.html
Title: S.B. 1434
Source: www3.state.id.us
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| KS | Signed into law 03/2002 | P-12 | Allows any school district to close any of its school buildings at any time the district's board of education finds that the building should be closed to improve the school system of the district. Currently, districts must follow certain procedures, such as adopting a plan, notifying the public, and conducting public hearings. The bill also makes the statutes on this issue uniform for all school districts.
Title: S.B. 394
Source: http://www.kslegislature.org/fiscalnotes/2002/394.html
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| ME | Signed into law 03/2002 | P-12 | Creates a study group to study school administrative unit organization; provides that the group shall study the history of formation of districts, participation in regional collaboratives, recommend incentives to be used to promote organizational characteristics that can be demonstrated to support high levels of student outcomes and efficient use of resources, and maintain school administrative units that exhibit organizational characteristics.
Title: S.B. 733
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| NM | Signed into law 03/2002 | P-12
Postsec.
Community College | A learning center district may be established in a school district or community college district upon adoption of a resolution by the local school board or community college board calling for establishment of a district and a showing of need for such a district. A district may also be established to include more than one school district and, in that case, the two or more local school boards shall jointly adopt a resolution and determine the need for a learning center. A district may also be established by a board of county commissioners upon adoption of a resolution by the board of county commissioners calling for establishment of a district and a showing of need for such a district; provided that each community college board or local school board located wholly or partially within the county shall approve of the establishment prior to the adoption of the resolution. The boundaries of the district shall be coterminous with the boundaries of the school district, community college district, combined school districts or county constituting the district. No district shall be established without the written approval of the commission.
Title: H.B. 307
Source: http://www.technet.nm.org/legislature
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| WA | Signed into law 03/2002 | P-12 | Gives the health care authority to publish and distribute to nonparticipating school districts and educational service districts by October 1st of each year a description of health care benefit plans available through the authority and the estimated cost if school districts and educational service district employees were enrolled. http://www.leg.wa.gov/pub/billinfo/2001-02/House/2525-2549/2536-s_sl_03282002.txt
Title: H.B. 2536
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| AL | Signed into law 02/2002 | P-12 | Divides the state into State Board of Education districts; specifies such districts based upon the 2000 federal census.
Title: S.B. 187
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| NM | Vetoed 02/2002 | P-12 | A school district with membership that is greater than thirty-five thousand students is required to redistrict. The state board must adopt and promulgate rules setting forth procedures for the redistricting of the school district.
Title: H.B. 153
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| ID | Signed into law 01/2002 | P-12 | Provides that in proposed closure of public secondary schools which are thirty miles or more distant from another public secondary attendance school, that only patrons resident in this attendance area shall be eligible to vote in an election regarding the closure, except for attendance units, or portions of them, created after 1/1/02, in which case qualified school district electors throughout the school district shall be eligible to vote.
Title: S.B. 1485
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| NJ | Signed into law 07/2001 | P-12 | Permits jointure commissions to provide services to school districts including, education of disabled pupils; states when 2 or more boards of education determine to carry out jointly the duties imposed upon them in regard to education and training of disabled pupils and counseling, inclusionary, and child study team services for disabled pupils, the board may, in accordance to rules of the state board and the commissioner establish a joint commission to provide such services.
Title: S.B. 986
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| LA | Signed into law 06/2001 | P-12 | Provides for a salary supplement for certain school counselors who have met the requirements and acquired the National Board of Certified Counselors credential.
Title: S.B. 247
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| OR | Signed into law 06/2001 | P-12 | Establishes the Small School District Supplement fund; requires the Department of Education to award grants to small school districts with one or more small high schools; requires the department to study the relationship between small school districts size and cost of need for programs; requires the department to review certain programs for children with disabilities.
Title: S.B. 519
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| OR | Signed into law 06/2001 | P-12 | Allows appeal of decisions made by organizations that administer interscholastic activities. Appeals go before the state board, which may hear the matter or by rule may delegate authority to a hearings officer
to hold a hearing and enter a final order.
Title: S.B. 220
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| UT | Signed into law 06/2001 | P-12
Community College
Postsec. | Creates the Utah College of Applied Technology and other regional applied technology colleges in Utah; establishes their governance structure; defines their powers and duties. Each regional applied technology college shall:
(a) offer a post-secondary and extra-secondary applied technology education curriculum;
(b) offer that curriculum at low cost to adult students and at no cost to secondary students
within the college's jurisdiction;
(c) provide applied technology education that will result in:
(i) appropriate licensing, certification, or other evidence of completion of training; and
(ii) qualification for specific employment in business and industry;
(d) offer competency-based associate of applied technology degrees approved by the State
Board of Regents;
(e) develop cooperative agreements with local school districts, other higher education
institutions, businesses, industries, and community and private agencies to maximize the availability
of instructional facilities; and (f) after consulting with local school districts within the geographic area served by the regional applied technology college:
(i) ensure that secondary students in the public education system have access to applied
technology education in the regional applied technology college; and
(ii) prepare and submit an annual report to the Utah College of Applied Technology detailing:
(A) how the applied technology education needs of secondary students within the region are
being met; and
(B) what access secondary students within the region have to programs offered at applied
technology colleges.
(2) A regional applied technology college may offer a competency-based high school diploma
equivalent approved by the State Board of Education in accordance with Section 53A-1-402.
(3) A regional applied technology college may not:
(a) offer courses other than applied technology education;
(b) offer a degree other than a competency-based associate of applied technology degree
approved by the State Board of Regents in accordance with Section 53B-1-103;
(c) provide tenure or academic rank for its instructors; and
(d) participate in intercollegiate athletics.
(4) The mission of a regional applied technology college is limited to applied technology
education and may not expand to include credit-based academic programs typically offered by community colleges or other institutions of higher education.
Title: H.B. 1003A
Source: http://www.le.state.ut.us/~2001S1/bills/hbillenr/HB1003.htm
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| HI | Signed into law 05/2001 | P-12 | Requires the Department of Education to establish risk management and related programs for school administrators, teachers, and other school personnel to mitigate the potential for liability in the performance of their jobs.
Title: S.B. 535
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| KS | Signed into law 05/2001 | P-12 | Concerns townships; relates to the acquisition of property; allows townships to procure not to exceed 3 acres of land for the township, and to build permanent buildings, or to purchase school building or grounds or both the building and grounds the same to be used for public purposes such as meetings relating to township business, political gatherings, township fairs, entertainments, whether for free use or for hire and profit.
Title: H.B. 2068
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| ME | Signed into law 05/2001 | P-12 | Public Law No. 156., (LD 1479) Amends current law to allow school year employees to receive their pay over a period of either 10 or 12 months as determined by a written agreement between the employees and the school administrative unit.
Title: H.B. 1110
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| ME | Signed into law 05/2001 | P-12 | Public Law No. 192.,& 181 (LD 1754)Relates to the Maine State Retirement System; establishes the Consumer Price Index as the benchmark for the cost-of-living adjustments; establishes standards for the determination by the Board of Trustees of the Maine State Retirement System; allows service credit in order to qualify for a service retirement benefit under a special plan to a State employee, teacher member or participating local district member interrupting employment for any services.
Title: S.B. 576
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| MT | Signed into law 05/2001 | P-12 | Authorizes the trustees of a school district to enter into an interlocal cooperative agreement with another K-12 accredited public institution to provide educational services to supplement the district's educational program; requires that credits received and classes be approved by the school district and meet graduation requirements; requires that credits must be reported to the district of residence; provides that the district of residence is not responsible for transportation costs.
Title: S.B. 394
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| MT | Signed into law 05/2001 | P-12 | Authorizes a school district to use a portion of its impact aid funds for repayment of bonds.
Title: S.B. 457
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| MT | Signed into law 05/2001 | P-12 | Authorizes a school district to enter into a cooperative purchasing contract with one or more districts for the procurement of supplies and services; provides bidding and advertisement requirements for a cooperative purchasing contract; provides for rejection of all bids.
Title: H.B. 108
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| MT | Signed into law 05/2001 | P-12 | Provides start-up costs for school districts to establish school breakfast programs.
Title: H.B. 353
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| MT | Signed into law 05/2001 | P-12 | Allows school districts that consolidate to each retain their basic entitlement for 6 years; retains 100% of the entitlement for the 1st 3 years; reduces the entitlement over the next 3 years by 25% each year.
Title: H.B. 488
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| NC | Signed into law 05/2001 | P-12 | Eliminates unnecessary and duplicative paperwork in the public schools.
Title: S.B. 708
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| NE | Signed into law 05/2001 | P-12 | Changes the definition of general fund operating expenditures for purposes of the state aid formula. General fund operating expenditures will not include retirement incentive plans and staff development assistance. The exclusion of these items from general fund operating expenditures will reduce formula "need." resulting in a minimal decrease in state aid paid to schools. The state department of education indicates that the amount of retirement incentive plans and staff development assistance is not a significant amount on a statewide basis, so the exclusion of these items will result in a minimal decrease in state aid paid to schools.
Title: L.B. 797
Source: Nebraska Legislative Web Site
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| OR | Signed into law 05/2001 | P-12 | Allows the district school board to open a school outside of district with permission of the school district in which the school will be located; provides for withholding of State School Fund moneys if the school opened without permission; allows school district to contract bonded indebtedness for uses outside district.
Title: H.B. 2291
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| TN | Signed into law 05/2001 | P-12 | States that Basic Education Program funds generated in salary components for non-licensed personnel may be used to increase salaries for currently employed non-licensed personnel except where such funds are generated for new or additional positions.
Title: S.B. 346
Source: http://www.legislature.state.tn.us
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| TX | Signed into law 05/2001 | P-12 | Senate Bill 826 amends the Education Code to authorize the board of trustees of a school district to operate a school or program or hold a class on the campus of an institution of higher education if the board
obtains written consent from the president or other chief executive officer of the institution. The bill authorizes the president or other chief executive officer of the institution to provide written consent regardless of whether the institution is located within the boundaries of the district.
Title: S.B. 826
Source: http://www.senate.state.tx.us/
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| TX | Vetoed 05/2001 | P-12 | Requires trustees of each district to adopt a policy to limit redundant requests for information and the number and length of written reports that a classroom teacher is required to prepare. A classroom teacher may not be required to prepare a written report other than (1) a report of a student's grade on a particular assignment or examination; (2) a report of a student's grades at the end of a grade reporting period; (3) a textbook report; (4) a unit or weekly lesson plan report that outlines, in a brief and general manner, the information to be presented during each period at the secondary level or in each subject or topic at the elementary level; (5) an attendance report; (6) a report required for accreditation review; (7) any other report specifically required by law or state board rule to be prepared by a classroom teacher; or (8) any other report directly related to the professional duties of the classroom teacher.
Title: H.B. 106
Source: http://www.house.state.tx.us/
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| VA | Signed into law 05/2001 | P-12 | Creates optional age-appropriate education programs for students in grades K-5 who require guidance, supervision and discipline in a structured learning environment and who need to be redirected toward appropriate classroom decorum and acceptable personal behavior. The programs shall provide instructional and support services that will enable students to maintain academic achievement, attain basic skills and academic proficiencies, and otherwise benefit from a public education during the time that they may be removed from the regular classroom. The programs shall also be designed to accommodate students within the school building to which they have been assigned, facilitate the efficient transition of students between the optional education program and their regular classroom, and provide for the continuity of instruction, a nurturing environment, necessary guidance and supervision, and the participation of the student's parents in correcting his behavior. Such programs shall be adequately staffed by licensed teachers or other persons with demonstrated qualifications to instruct and manage students with a range of academic gifts and deficiencies, disciplinary problems, and the need to develop and use appropriate social skills.
Title: S.B. 1144
Source: http://hod.state.va.us
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| AR | Signed into law 04/2001 | P-12 | Requires districts to establish web pages and then post relevant district information on that web page.
Title: H.B. 2503
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| AR | Signed into law 04/2001 | P-12 | Creates a procedure for the creation of a school district by detachment.
Title: H.B. 1882
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| MD | Vetoed 04/2001 | P-12 | Requires county board of education to draft specifications encouraging maximum competition in public school procurement contracts when advertising is required; prohibits specifications favoring a single prospective bidder or offerer.
Title: S.B. 438
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| MT | Signed into law 04/2001 | P-12 | Revises school district operating expense and purchasing laws by allowing a district to make transfers between different funds or between the final budget and a budget amendment; prohibits transfers from the general fund.
Title: S.B. 436
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| MT | Signed into law 04/2001 | P-12 | Expands the Interlocal Cooperation Act to allow school districts to share teachers, specialists, or superintendents.
Title: S.B. 182
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| NM | Signed into law 04/2001 | P-12 | Regional education cooperatives authorized by the state board may own, and have control and management over, buildings and land independent of the control division of the general services department; cooperatives shall submit budgets to the department of education. The state board shall, by rule, determine the provisions of the Public School Finance Act relating to budgets and expenditures that are applicable to cooperatives; and pursuant to the rules of the state board, the state superintendent may, designate a cooperative as a board of finance with which all funds appropriated or distributed to it shall be deposited. The state board, with full participation by the cooperatives, shall develop a statewide long-range plan for educational and technical assistance activities in public and charter schools served by the cooperatives.
Title: H.B. 139
Source: New Mexico Legislative Web Site
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| TN | Signed into law 04/2001 | P-12 | Authorizes counties with metropolitan governments in which principal city is not county seat to adopt consolidation plan for school systems with approval of governing body of metropolitan government and approval by all affected school boards. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 2.
Title: H.B. 465
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| AR | Signed into law 03/2001 | P-12 | AN ACT TO DIRECT THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION TO ESTABLISH RULES AND REGULATIONS REGARDING THE DISPOSITION OF PUBLIC PROPERTY BY PUBLIC EDUCATIONAL ENTITIES; TO RESTRICT THE DONATION OF SCHOOL PROPERTY TO RETIREES; AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES
Title: S.B. 819
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| MT | Signed into law 03/2001 | P-12 | Revises the procedures for opening or reopening an elementary school; allows parents of at least two pupils to petition the trustees; lowers the required average number belonging to two; allows the trustees to open or reopen the school during the current school fiscal year; requires a school to be classified as isolated before opening of reopening during the current school fiscal year.
Title: H.B. 358
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| NE | Signed into law 02/2001 | P-12 | Changes provisions relating to inspection of pupil transportation vehicles.
Title: L.B. 36
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| SD | Signed into law 02/2001 | P-12 | Repeals that the requirement that school districts consist of adjoining territory.
Title: H.B. 1123
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| VA | Signed into law 02/2001 | P-12 | Allows any local governing body, school district or public institution of higher education to enter into energy performance-based contracts to significantly reduce energy and operating costs of a facility.
Title: H.B. 1967
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| CA | Signed into law 09/2000 | P-12 | Requires the County Office Fiscal Crisis and Management Assistance Team to conduct a review, make recommendations, and provide technical assistance to streamline and improve the hiring process and related personnel system of a school district if the district meets certain criteria.
Title: S.B. 1331
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| NY | Signed into law 09/2000 | P-12 | Provides that plans and specifications for all school buildings in the State be submitted to local fire and law enforcement authorities.
Title: A.B. 8370
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| RI | Signed into law 07/2000 | P-12 | Requires all public schools to make a breakfast program available to students attending the school.
Title: S.B. 2387
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| NH | Signed into law 06/2000 | P-12 | Outlines procedures for the adoption of joint maintenance agreements; authorizes school districts which have entered into joint maintenance agreements to incur indebtedness by issuing notes or bonds subject to approval of the legislative bodies of the respective districts; permits joint agreement districts to be eligible for school building aid grants; repeals current law on the formation of a joint agreement certain school districts for the purpose of calculating school aid.
Title: S.B. 318
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| NY | Signed into law 06/2000 | P-12 | Requires the Board of Regents to include in their annual report to the Governor and the Legislature on the schools of the state, information concerning school library expenditures and school library media specialist employment.
Title: A.B. 4885
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| SC | Became law without governor's signature 06/2000 | P-12 | Authorizes the Board of Education to acquire school buildings and other facilities relating to school district operations; allows this acquisition by means of a lease purchase agreement.
Title: H.B. 4970
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| AL | Signed into law 05/2000 | P-12 | Provides an equivalent percent cost-of-living adjustment for certain public education employees with the beginning of the 2000-2001 fiscal year; requires a revision of the state salary matrix for certificated personnel; requires revisions of local salary schedules to reflect the cost-of-living adjustments for the 2000-2001 fiscal year.
Title: H.B. 202
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| MD | Signed into law 05/2000 | P-12 | Makes certain adjustments to the formula for transportation grants to county boards of education; adjusts the time period for calculating increases in the grant amounts.
Title: S.B. 106
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| MS | Signed into law 05/2000 | P-12 | Authorizes the Department of Finance and Administration to develop a master lease purchase program for equipment use by school districts.
Title: H.B. 1031
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| VT | Signed into law 05/2000 | P-12 | Provides for a school environmental health clearinghouse on the Department of Health's website; provides for the development of a model school environmental health policy; requires an annual audit of school buildings and grounds; requires a maintenance schedule for ventilation and heating systems; requires implementation of integrated pest management; provides for isolation of toxic material that cannot be removed; provides for emergency response.
Title: H.B. 192
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| AZ | Signed into law 04/2000 | P-12 | States that unification of a common school district and a high school district is not authorized if any of the high school district facilities owned by the new unified school district are not located within its boundaries; stipulates that only unifying school districts shall approve the formation of a unified school district by resolution.
Title: H.B. 2264
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| IA | Signed into law 04/2000 | P-12 | Directs the Department of Education to conduct a feasibility study of reorganization and sharing incentives for school districts.
Title: H.B. 2198
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| ID | Signed into law 04/2000 | P-12 | Requires that a majority vote shall decide the election for continuance or discontinuance of school.
Title: H.B. 520
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| KY | Signed into law 04/2000 | P-12 | Requires the Auditor of Public Accounts to be responsible for an annual audit of the funds in each school district cooperative, school district consortium, school district corporation, and any other entity formed by school districts; provides the auditor may allow a certified public accountant to perform the audit but shall retain the right to receive the audit report and management letters.
Title: H.B. 689
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| IN | Signed into law 03/2000 | P-12 | Repeals the requirement for school corporations to change to a July-June budget year; repeals the July-June budget year pilot project; changes the date back to September 20 for public hearings on proposed plans for school bus replacement and capital projects.
Title: S.B. 508
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| KY | Signed into law 03/2000 | P-12 | Directs the Department of Education to promote strategies to assist school districts in providing a safe transportation system; directs the Department of Education to report on its effect to the Interim Joint Committee on Education by January 1, 2001.
Title: H.J.R. 101
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| KY | Signed into law 03/2000 | P-12 | Requires each public elementary and secondary school to establish and maintain a school library media center that is staffed by a certified school media librarian; requires school council to consult with the school media librarian on matters pertaining to the facility; permits school media librarian to be employed at two or more schools in a district with the consent of the school council.
Title: H.B. 324
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| NM | Signed into law 03/2000 | P-12
Community College | This act provides for the establishment of "Learning Centers". These learning centers will be set-up by local Learning Center Districts and will work with established community colleges and universities to provide post-secondary education options throughout the state. Each district will have the ability to levy a 5-mill tax, with approval of the voters, to fund these centers.
Title: S.B. 406
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| UT | Signed into law 03/2000 | P-12 | Relates to public education; requires the State Board of Education to conduct a study and make a report on whether there should be an optimum size for school districts based on student population; provides a mechanism for the creation of a new school district; provides for the transfer of property to and the assumption of indebtedness by the new school district; provides for the election of board members.
Title: H.B. 22
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| VA | Signed into law 03/2000 | P-12 | Amends the statute authorizing schools boards to permit the use of school property, under such conditions as will not impair the efficiency of the schools, to allows the school boards to authorize the division superintendent to permit the use of the school property, including buildings, grounds, vehicles, and other property.
Title: H.B. 1212
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| VA | Signed into law 03/2000 | P-12 | Requires local school boards to ensure that elementary school teachers in their employment have at least 3 hours during the students' school week for planning time.
Title: H.B. 1517
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| NJ | Signed into law 01/2000 | P-12 | Provides regionalization incentive aid for K-12 school districts with an enrollment greater than 10,000 pupils.
Title: A.B. 3290
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| CA | Signed into law 10/1999 | P-12
Community College | Chapter No. 962; Appropriates, without regard to fiscal year, $ 1,000,000 from the general fund to the Superintendent of Public Instruction, for allocation to school districts and county offices of education to fund the acquisition of school library materials. These funds will be applied toward the minimum funding requirements for school districts and community college districts imposed by Section 8 of Article XVI of the California Constitution.
Title: A.B. 910
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| CA | Vetoed 10/1999 | P-12 | Requires every school site at which 75 pupils are eligible for free or reduced-cost meals through the federal school lunch program to offer breakfast to all of the pupils enrolled at the school site through the federal School Breakfast Program, commencing during or before the 2000-01 school year, to the extent funding is available for that purpose, for any fiscal year or portion of a fiscal year.
Title: S.B. 1041
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| LA | Signed into law 07/1999 | P-12 | Requires certain school buses to be equipped with seat belts.
Title: H.B. 1955
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| NH | Signed into law 07/1999 | P-12 | Provides that, within a duly approved interstate school district, the New Hampshire Department of Education may enter into an agreement with another state for the purpose of determining which state shall be responsible for certifying education personnel, approving a high school, and participating in a statewide assessment program.
Title: S.B. 230
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| OR | Vetoed 07/1999 | P-12 | Allows county comprehensive plans to establish or extend urban services from inside urban growth boundary to area inside county but outside growth boundary if certain conditions are met; prohibits local government and Land Conservation and Development Commission from prohibiting siting of public school facility in urban reserve area.
Title: H.B. 3259
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| LA | Signed into law 06/1999 | P-12 | Relates to training and certification of school bus operators; provides for the development and implementation of a program for training and certification of such operators; provides for program purpose; provides relative to training sessions and dissemination of information by the state Department of Education.
Title: H.B. 2050
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| TX | Signed by governor 06/1999 | P-12 | A school employee who serves as the head coach or chief sponsor for an extracurricular athletic activity, including cheerleading, sponsored by the school district or the UIL must maintain and submit to the district proof of current certification in first aid and cardiopulmonary resuscitation issued by the American Red Cross, the American Heart Association, or another organization that provides equivalent training and certification.
Title: S.B. 4
Source: "Advocate," Summer 1999
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| FL | Became law without governor's signature 05/1999 | P-12
Community College | Establishes training school consolidation pilot projects; provides for transfer of responsibility for operation of existing programs; provides for transfer of facilities and equipment; requires Department of Education to shift all full-time equivalence and other funding from school district to receiving community college; provides guideline for future approval of programs.
Title: S.B. 1664
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| IA | Signed into law 05/1999 | P-12 | Provides for the joint construction or acquisition, furnishing, operation, and maintenance of public buildings by counties, cities, fire districts, and school districts and providing for joint issuance of school district or fire district bonds.
Title: S.B. 393
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| IA | Signed into law 05/1999 | P-12 | Provides that a school district shall operate or provide for the operation of school breakfast and lunch programs at all attendance centers in the district.
Title: H.B. 675
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| MD | Signed into law 05/1999 | P-12 | Establishes a pilot program for certain schools to provide breakfast for all students regardless of income; setting a threshold level of income for school to participate; and authorizes business entities to receive tax credits for contributions to a school breakfast program.
Title: H.B. 868/S.B. 744
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| AR | Signed into law 04/1999 | P-12 | Pertains to grievance procedures of school districts.
Title: H.B. 2075
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| ND | Signed into law 04/1999 | P-12 | Provides for school district reorganization bonuses.
Title: S.B. 2441
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| AR | Signed into law 03/1999 | P-12 | Requests the house and senate interim committees on education to conduct a study on the effects of teaching arts and music in public elementary schools.
Title: H.C.R. 1013
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| KS | Signed into law 03/1999 | P-12 | Concerns the provision and maintenance of water closets by boards of education.
Title: S.B. 36
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| SD | Signed into law 03/1999 | P-12 | Provides certain incentives for school consolidation.
Title: S.B. 209
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| ND | Signed into law 01/1999 | P-12 | Relates to the state board of public school education annexation appeals.
Title: S.B. 2079
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| SD | Signed into law 01/1999 | P-12 | Revises the procedure between contracting school districts.
Title: S.B. 205
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| CA | Signed into law 08/1998 | P-12 | Provides funds to provide students with access to up-to-date library resources. To receive funding, districts must create a districtwide school library plan approved by their local board. Funds are awarded on a per-student basis. Materials purchased must meet California's curriculum standards and frameworks.
Title: A.B. 862
Source: "EDCAL," September 21, 1998
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| IL | Signed into law 08/1998 | P-12 | Creates a new pupil transportation interest-free start-up loan program to assist school districts that are not providing free transportation; provides that the funds shall be repaid by subtracting one-tenth of the amount of the loan from the amount due for the school district's reimbursement claim each year.
Title: H.B. 2802
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| NJ | Signed into law 08/1998 | P-12 | Clarifies that the requirement that school buses are to be equipped with crossing control arms applies to buses transporting nonpublic, as well as school pupils.
Title: S.B. 790
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| CT | Died 07/1998 | P-12 | Concerns a comprehensive program to improve education in the early grades.
Title: S.B. 121
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| CT | Died 07/1998 | P-12 | Creates a school district comprised of the regional vocational-technical schools in order to guarantee funding and a stable fiscal base.
Title: H.B. 5142
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| FL | Died 07/1998 | P-12 | Requires each district school to meet annually with the board of county commissioners and with municipal governing bodies to plan for educational facilities; provides for notice; requires a report, providing for arbitration; provides a penalty.
Title: H.B. 3283
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| DE | Signed into law 06/1998 | P-12 | Establishes the Public School Transportation Task Force to review and make recommendations regarding governing public school transportation.
Title: H.J.R. 19 Public School Transportation Task Force
Source: Information for Public Affairs, Inc.
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| NH | Signed into law 06/1998 | P-12 | Changes the procedures whereby a school district may withdraw from an area district; provides for the expiration and extension of area school plans; deletes certain exceptions to the tuition obligations of school districts for pupils attending schools in other districts.
Title: S.B. 400
Source: Information for Public Affairs, Inc.
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| NJ | Died 06/1998 | P-12 | Prohibits public school fund raising activities which include unsupervised door-to-door sales by students.
Title: A.B. 3231 School Solicitation
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| NJ | Died 06/1998 | P-12 | Permits only two school districts to share a school business administratror.
Title: S.B. 2297
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| AZ | Signed into law 05/1998 | P-12 | Relates to pesticide buffer zones; charter schools, public schools, and health care facilities cannot be located within specific distances of agricultural land that is subject to the application of pesticides; child care facility licenses can be revoked if they affect agricultural land that is subject to pesticides. If certain requirements are met, child care facilities can be licensed if they are within a buffer zone.
Title: S.B. 1300
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| FL | Signed into law 05/1998 | P-12 | Requires that future land use element of local government's comprehensive plan include certain criteria regarding location of schools; revises requirements for imposition of school concurrency requirement by local government and for local government comprehensive plan or plan amendment to implement such requirement; requires public schools facilities element; provides directive to school boards regarding school location.
Title: S.B. 2474
Source: Information for Public Affairs, Inc.
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| NE | Signed into law 05/1998 | P-12 | Relates to probation, federal medicaid funds, truancy, school closing, reorganization of school districts, the assistant commissioner of education, temporary mitigation funds, educational service units, the statewide public computer information network, and quality education incentive payments; defines and redefines terms; changes and eliminates certain provisions.
Title: LB 1
Source: Information for Public Affairs, Inc.
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| TN | Signed into law 05/1998 | P-12 | Requires the board and local education agencies for school located entirely or partially within 100 miles of the New Madrid Fault Line to implement earthquake drills.
Title: H.B. 2394 Earthquake Drills
Source: Information for Public Affairs, Inc.
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| UT | Died 05/1998 | P-12 | Provides a mechanism for the creation of a new school district; provides for the transfer of property to and the assumption of indebtedness by the new school district.
Title: S.B. 13 School Districts
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| AL | Signed into law 04/1998 | P-12 | Relates to the requirement for taking a school census; provides further for the dates of taking the census.
Title: H.B. 717
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| CO | Signed into law 04/1998 | P-12 | Concerns the taxing authority of school districts to support school libraries which are supported by taxes levied prior to the enactment of the "Colorado Library Law."
Title: H.B. 1150 Libraries
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| KY | Signed into law 04/1998 | P-12 | Requires local school districts to provide a cost of living increase for certified staff that equals or exceeds the percent increase in the consumer price index or the base funding level in the program for Support Education Excellence in Kentucky, whichever is less.
Title: H.B. 469 Cost of Living Increase
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| KY | Signed into law 04/1998 | P-12 | Defines a primary program; describes critical attributes for primary program; requires that each school council or school, when no council exists, determine the organization of its ungraded primary program including the extent to which multi-age groups are necessary based on critical attributes; requires each local school district collect data by school on number of primary students who take five (5) years to complete program.
Title: H.B. 484
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| WV | Signed into law 04/1998 | P-12 | Relates to air quality in new school construction; relates to standards and tests; relates to School Building Authority guidelines and report to Legislative Oversight Commission on Education Accountability.
Title: H.B. 4697
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| ID | Signed into law 03/1998 | P-12 | Clarifies and revises the procedures by which the boundaries of a school district may be altered by the excision and annexation of territory between contiguous districts.
Title: H.B. 509
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| SD | Signed into law 02/1998 | P-12 | Revises certain provisions relating to contracting school districts that do not operate a K-12 school.
Title: S.B. 149
Source: Information for Public Affairs, Inc.
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| SD | Signed into law 02/1998 | P-12 | Revises the circumstances under which a school district may charge a fee for school bus transportation.
Title: S.B. 29
Source: Information for Public Affairs, Inc.
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| UT | Signed into law 02/1998 | P-12 | Relates to public education; increases the tax rate a local school board may levy for transporting students; provides for a state guarantee not to exceed 85% of the state average cost per mile.
Title: H.B. 179
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| FL | Signed into law 11/1997 | P-12 | Creates the "SMART Schools Act", requires school districts to prepare facilities 5-year work programs before adopting their annual capital outlay budgets; provides for effort index grants for school district facilities work programs projects; revises measures that qualify as energy conservation measures; establishes SMART School Small County Assistance Program for fiscal year 1998-1999; requires standards for relocatables and provides guidelines.
Title: H.B. 17 Smart Schools Act
Source: Information for Public Affairs
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| NY | Passed 08/1997 | P-12 | Authorizes the creation of certain union free school districts by municipalities situated wholly within one central of union free school district but the boundaries of which are not coterminous with the boundaries of such school district.
Title: A.B. 8670 School Districts
Source:
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| OK | Signed into law 07/1997 | P-12 | Allows two or more school districts to be consolidated into a single school district on a conditional basis if the voters so approve at an election for this purpose; provides that subsequent consolidation or annexations must be approved by a majority of the electors of each of the original school districts.
Title: H.B. 1049 Conditional Consolidation of School Districts
Source: Oklahoma State School Boards Association
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| CO | Vetoed 06/1997 | P-12 | Establishes a school construction and renovation fund to receive lottery moneys allocated to it by the state constitution; provides that moneys in the fund are to be used to make matching grants to school districts for capital construction projects.
Title: H.B. 1007 Establishes School Construction and Renovation Fund
Source: Colorado Legislative Council Staff
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| NV | Signed into law 06/1997 | P-12 | Revises provisions governing the review of plans for school facilities; authorizes school districts to enter into lease agreements for school facilities with an option to purchase the facilities; requires the board of trustees of school districts in certain counties to establish oversight panels for school facilities; and other provisions.
Title: A.B. 353 Financing of School Facilities
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| OR | Died 06/1997 | P-12 | Directs State Board of Education to establish statewide cost standards for capital construction of schools; establishes School Capital Construction Fund; directs Department of Education to distribute money from fund to school districts based on cost standards; appropriates money from General Fund to Department of Education for School Capital Construction Fund.
Title: H.B. 3555 Capital Construction
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| AL | Died 05/1997 | P-12 | Provies $125 million in technology and $310 million for removal of portable classrooms and other important construction needs.
Title: H.B. 623/S.B. 475 Funding for Technology and Portable Classroom Removal
Source: Alabama Education Association
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| CO | Signed into law 05/1997 | P-12 | Concerns contracts to receive federal matching funds in providing health services to students in public schools; authorizes school districts, boards of cooperative services, state K-12 educational institutions to enter into contracts with the Department of Health Care Policy and Financing to receive federal matching funds for amounts spent in providing health services through schools to students who receive medicaid.
Title: S.B. 101 Federal Matching Funds for Health Services to Students
Source: Colorado Association of School Boards
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| FL | Died 05/1997 | P-12 | Provides matching grants to certain school districts; specifies eligible facilities. Provides for allocation and use of matching grants from Florida Lottery School Construction Fund; authorizes school districts to pledge discretionary lottery funds designated for school facilities and any matching grants for payment of bonds.
Title: S.B. 2084
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| CO | Died 04/1997 | P-12 | Concerns a strengthening of the prohibition against the use of tobacco at schools; limits a school district board of education's authority to exempt school property within the school district from the prohibition against the use of tobacco products on school property.
Title: H.B. 1147 Use of Tobacco at Schools
Source: Colorado Association of School Boards
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| CO | Died 04/1997 | P-12 | This House Concurrent Resolution would submit a measure to Colorado voters at the November 1998 general election to amend the State Constitution relating to the distribution of lottery proceeds. The concurrent resolution would require that annually $32 million from the net proceeds of state lottery revenues be distributed to the School Construction and Renovation Fund, which would be created in the State Treasury (SEE H.B. 1007). Moneys in the School Construction and Renovation Fund would be used to make matching grants to school districts for the purposes of constructing new public schools and performing renovations of and controlled maintenance at public schools.
Title: H.C.R. 1001 Funding of State Lottery Revenues
Source: Colorado Legislative Council Staff
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| NM | Signed into law 04/1997 | P-12 | Requires background checks for educators applying for initial certification; requires public schools to develop procedures and guidelines to require background checks of non-certified persons who have been offered employment. ($60,000 is included in the Education Appropriation Act.)
Title: S.B. 106
Source: New Mexico Legislative Education Study Committee
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| MS | Died 02/1997 | P-12 | Provides for the annexation to a municipality of territory in an adjacant school district; provides for a board of arbitration in the event an argument cannot be reached between school districts. Provides that whenever any annexation becomes effective subsequent to July 1 of any fiscal year, the annexed territory shall remain under the jurisdiction of its former school district until the end of the fiscal year.
Title: S.B. 2074 & S.B. 2080 Municipal Annexation Extension Across County Lines
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| RI | Signed into law 02/1997 | P-12 | Authorizes the city of Newport to finance the construction, equipping and furnishing of a new middle school in the city.
Title: S.B. 85 Financing School Facilities
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| AZ | Signed into law 01/1997 | P-12 | Provides that each school shall establish a school council; states that a governing board may delegate to a school council the responsibility to develop a curriculum and may delegate any additional powers that are reasonably necessary to accomplish decentralization; and states that the school council shall reflect the ethnic composition of the local community.
Title: S.B. 1123
Source: Lexis-Nexis
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| IL | Vetoed 12/1996 | P-12 | Creates the School Land Dedication and School Facility Impact Fee Act; provides for the imposition by school districts of school land dedication progrms or school facility impact fee programs or both when new development creates a need or an identifiable portion of a need for new school grounds or facilities. Prohibits a charter school from applying for or accepting grants from Goals 2000 funding without approval of the school board.
Title: H.B. 226 School Land Dedication Programs Placed on Calendar of Amendatory Veto
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| AZ | Died 07/1996 | P-12 | Provides for reformation of the school capital financing mechanism by the end of 1997 by means of constitutional amendment in accordance with 4 principles; requests substantial equalization satisfying the State Constitution; requests same assessment ratio on all property for voter-approved school construction; provides that nonresidential property is availed to all districts for taxation based on per-pupil valuesl; calls for elimination of debt for school construction within 15 years.
Title: S.B. 1013 School Capital Financing
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| SC | Signed into law 07/1996 | P-12 | Enacts the "Public School Facilities Assistance Act", makes funds available to construct and renovate public school facilities, authorizes the issuance of school revenue bonds.
Title: H.B. 4547/S.B. 1117 Public School Facilities Assistance Act
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| DE | Signed into law 06/1996 | P-12 | Authorizes local school districts to operate "satellite schools", schools located at the worksite of and employer; protects students by requiring the State Board to establish rules and regulations ensuring student safety by establishing fair admission procedures.
Title: S.B. 277 Magnet Schools Run by Business
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| NC | Died 06/1996 | P-12 | Makes permanent the requirement that counties use part of the two half-cent local sales tax proceeds only for public school buildings.
Title: S.B. 1136 Usage of Local Sales Tax for Public School Buildings
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| NC | Died 06/1996 | P-12 | Establishes the School Facilities Trust Fund to provide funds for grants to counties for public school capital outlay projects to promote equity in local school facilities and reduces the pressure on the local property tax.
Title: H.B. 1104 & S.B. 1133 School Facilities
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| AZ | Signed into law 04/1996 | P-12 | Relates to school district services program. States that a school board may establish a "district services program" by which it can provide goods and services to district schools or departments or even other school districts and charge them.
Title: S.B. 1180 School District Services Program
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| NE | Signed into law 04/1996 | P-12 | Directs the Attorney General to initiate an action to determine the rights of non-certificated employees to participate in the Public Employees Retirement System in the State of Nebraska.
Title: LR 343 Non-Certified School Personnel
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| UT | Signed into law 04/1996 | P-12 | (Effective: 04/18/96) Relates to the responsibilities of school employees and limitations regarding student clubs.
Title: S.B. 1003a Responsibilities of School Employees
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| VA | Became law without governor's signature 04/1996 | P-12 | Requires law enforcement officers who arrest a full- or part-time, permanent or temporary employee of a public school for a felony, a crime of moral turpitude, or any offense involving physical or sexual abuse of a child, to file a report of arrest with the division superintendent; requires employee applicants to certify that they have not done any of the above acts; amends teacher suspension procedures; gives teachers and administrators a grievance period.
Title: H.B. 290 Employee Records
Source: Lexis-Nexis
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| GA | Signed into law 03/1996 | P-12 | Enacts the "Education Reform Act of 1996"; provides that the Department of Agriculture shall carry out all functions and exercise all powers previously held by the Department of Education for school nutrition programs; provides for membership in retirement systems under certain circumstances; creates a new Office of School Readiness and transfers to that office certain functions and duties previously performed by the Department of Human Resources.
Title: S.B. 709 Education Excellence Reforms
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| GA | Died 03/1996 | P-12 | Requires new school buses manufactured on or after January 1, 1997 to be equipped with seat belts for passengers.
Title: H.B. 1307 Seat Belts on Buses
Source: Education Leaders Council, Spring 1996, Legislative Trends, p. 12
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| ME | Signed into law 03/1996 | P-12 | (Effective: 03/20/96) Authorizes the Commissioner of Education and State School Superintendent to conduct record checks of criminal and investigative information on applicants for employment, certification or recertification in positions that are directly or indirectly in contact with children.
Title: H.B. 617 Record Checks of Employees
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| NM | Signed into law 03/1996 | P-12 | Allows an increase of a property tax rate authorized for capital improvements to public schools.
Title: H.B. 45 Increase Property Tax Rate
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| SD | Signed into law 03/1996 | P-12 | Provides for the consideration of nontaxable property when making boundary changes to a school district.
Title: H.B. 1301 Boundary changes and nontaxable property
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| UT | Signed into law 03/1996 | P-12 | (Effective: 03/19/96) Relates to public education; establishing capital outlay foundation and capital outlay loan programs for school districts to provide revenues for capital outlay bonding, construction, renovation, and debt service; providing for qualifications to participate in the programs; providing for termination of the emergency school building needs program; providing a basis for distribution of capital outlay monies.
Title: S.B. 46 Captal Outlay Programs
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| VA | Signed into law 03/1996 | P-12 | (Effective: 03/31/96) Adds Henry County to the list of School Boards that are required to fingerprint all new employees and submit such prints and relevant information through the Central Criminal Records Exchange.
Title: H.B. 517 Fingerprinting
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| WA | Signed into law 03/1996 | P-12 | Requires school employees with regularly scheduled unsupervised access to children to undergo record checks. Makes an appropriation for such purposes.
Title: S.B. 6272 School Personnel Record Check
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| WY | Signed into law 03/1996 | P-12 | (Effective: 03/21/96) Relates to school employee criminal background checks.
Title: S.B. 68 School Employee Criminal Background Check
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| WA | Signed into law 01/1996 | P-12 | Authorizes student transportation funding for students living within one mile of the school.
Title: S.B. 6684 Funding for Student Transportation
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| ID | Died 12/1995 | P-12 | Amends and adds to existing law to create a School District Growth Fund as a mechanism for a school district to utilize a levy to build additional buildings.
Title: H.B. 397 School District Growth Fund
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| CA | Signed into law 10/1995 | P-12 | Authorizes a school district to enter into a joint venture relationship for the purposes of school facilities construction; authorizes a school district to apply to the State Allocation Board for funding for the school facilities portion of the cost of constricting a joint venture project; requires the board to establish the cost of construction for the school facilities portion of the joint venture project. ftp://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/95-96/bill/asm/ab_0451-0500/ab_481_bill_951016_chaptered.pdf
Title: A.B. 481 Funding for School Facilities Construction
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| WA | Passed 09/1995 | P-12 | (Effective: 10/22/95) Clarifies unwritten policies and procedures for the designation of small school plants as remote and necessary.
Title: WAC 180-24-400 to 180-24-415 Remote and Necessary Small School Plants
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| CA | Signed into law 08/1995 | P-12 | Requires in any reorganization of a school district with more than 500,000 pupils in average daily attendance, that reorganization meet specified conditions. ftp://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/95-96/bill/sen/sb_0651-0700/sb_699_bill_950811_chaptered.pdf
Title: S.B. 699 School District Reorganization
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| IL | Signed into law 07/1995 | P-12 | (Effective: 07/14/95) Amends the University of Illinois Trustees Act to terminate the terms of the elected trustees on July 1, 1995. Amends the Board of Higher Education Act. Provides that the Board of Higher Education shall consists of 17 members, 2 of whom shall be the chairs of the governing boards of the University of Illinois and Southern Illinois University.
Title: S.B. 718 Postsecondary--Governing Boards
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| NC | Signed into law 06/1995 | P-12 | Creates an offense for assaulting a school bus driver.
Title: H.B. 496 Discipline
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| IN | Signed into law 05/1995 | P-12 | Establishes the school guidance counselor grant program and fund to enhance the availability and quality of school quidance counseling programs in kindergarten through grade 6; establishes an advisory committee to assist the department of education in the administration of the school guidance counselor program.
Title: S.B. 323 - School Guidance Programs
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| ME | Signed into law 05/1995 | P-12 | (LD 350) Encourages local school units to enter into collaborative ventures to pursue the sharing of resources by making such collaborative ventures eligible for the Innovative Grants Program.
Title: H.B. 248 Sharing of Resources by School Districts
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| IA | Signed into law 04/1995 | P-12 | (Effective: 04/27/95) Relates to shared superintendents for purposes of the supplementary weightingg plan for public school districts and provides effective and retroactive applicability dates.
Title: S.B. 205 Shared Superintendents for Public School Districts
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| NM | Signed into law 04/1995 | P-12 | (Effective: 04/06/95) Public School Code relating to public school transportation to establish in statute a new formula for distribution of transportation funds to school districts, to separate the transportation capital outlay distribution from the operational distribution, to grant the authority to local boards of education to establish school bus routes and per capita feeders, and to designate SDE's role as one of monitoring school district transportation programs.
Title: H 153a Public School Transportation ch. 208
Source: Legislative Education Study Committee
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| OK | Signed into law 04/1995 | P-12 | Creates a 15-member Education Support Personnel Legislative Task Force to study the feasibility of establishing a state minimum salary schedule for education support personnel; requires the task force to prepare a report by Feb.1,1996, detailing in terms of cost to the school districts and the state, criteria to be used and other information concerning the feasibility of of establishing such a salary schedule; requires submission of the report to the speaker of the House and Senate president pro tempore.
Title: H.C.R. 1010 Salary Schedule for Education Support Personnel
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| TN | Signed into law 04/1995 | P-12 | (Effective: 04/17/95) Prohibits policy manual or statute from being construed to prohibit fundraisers that benefit less than student body as a whole if principal or school board approves fundraiser and if it benefits school's overall academic program through acquisition of supplies, equipment, computers, books, and/or enrichment opportunities for one or more classrooms.
Title: S.B. 219/H.B. 950 Fundraisers
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| WV | Signed into law 06/1994 | P-12 | Funds new school construction through one additional bond issue ($18 million in state lottery funds) plus a new pay as you go system. (State Ed 6/94)
Title: S.B. 1008 School Building Authority
Source: WV Dept of Ed
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| AL | Signed into law 05/1994 | P-12 | (Effective: 05/17/94) Provides that all students in Alabama's public schools have access to school facilities that are safe, clean, and adequately and appropriately equipped and repaired. (Legis. Link, First Special Legislative Session 1994)
Title: H 104 (Act 94-821) School Facilities
Source: Alabama State Department of Education, Division of Legislative Services
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| AL | Signed into law 05/1994 | P-12 | (Effective: 05/28/94) Increases the amounts of public contracts subject to the state's competitive bid laws. Awarding authorities may let contracts for public improvements involving $20,000 or less without advertising for bids. Purchasing agents shall advertise for bids on all purchases in excess of $7,500. (Legis. Link, Regular Legislative Session - 1994)
Title: H 17 (Act 94-207) Competitive Bid Laws
Source: Alabama State Department of Education, Division of Legislative Services
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| MD | Signed into law 05/1994 | P-12
Community College | The Fiscal Year 1995 budget contains not only a $131 million increase in State Assistance to local governments, but also a $104 million increase in State Aid for public school construction. The compromises preserved APEX at $3,300 and added grants for students with limited English proficiency ($4 million), targeted poverty grants proportional to the counties' share of free and reduced price lunch counts ($5 million), increased support for certain gifted and talented and magnet school programs ($3 million and a $2.96 million community college equity grant. $3.14 million for new approaches to dealing with disruptive youth and greater expenditure at the middle school level for MD's Tomorrow program (children at risk). A $20 million increase was placed on reducing the State's school construction problems. (Action Line 5/94)
Title: Legislative Session Spells Success for Schools
Source: MD State Teachers Association
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| CO | Signed into law 04/1994 | P-12 | (Effective: 04/19/94) The General Assembly finds that many of the schools in this state permit the use of tobacco in and around school property. The General Assembly further finds that second hand smoke generated by such activity and the negative example set and frequently imitated by our school children are detrimental to the health and well being of such children as well as to school teachers, staff, and visitors. Accordingly, the General Assembly finds and declares that it is appropriate to create a safe and healthy school environment by prohibiting the use of tobacco products on all school property. (An Act, 1994)
Title: S.B. 94-100 Prohibition Against the Use of Tobacco at Schools
Source: CO State Legislature
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| GA | Signed into law 04/1994 | P-12 | Creates "Quality Basic Education Act" so as to change definitions relating to capital outlay funds for education; to provide for policies, guidelines, standards, and responsibilities of the State Board of Education with regard to capital outlay projects; to change certain conditions relating to sparsity grants; and for other purposes. (Statenet 4/14/94)
Title: H.B. 1314 Quality Basic Education Act
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| KY | Signed into law 04/1994 | P-12 | Clarifies the requirements to participate in the Facilities Suport Program of Kentucky; requires the tax levy to participate no later than 10-1 of each odd numbered year; requires that any equalized funds not needed for debt service be deposited to a restricted building fund account for future debt service or priorities listed in the approved facilities plan. (Statenet 4/11/94)
Title: H.B. 830 Tax Levies
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| UT | Signed into law 04/1994 | P-12 | (Effective: 06/01/94) H.B. 250 creates vast changes in the way the schools' millions of acres will be managed. The new law: mandates that the trust must be managed "for the exclusive benefit of the beneficiaries," meaning mostly public schools; puts more space between the trust's board of trustees and the world of politics; demands that persons with specialized expertise in land and trust transactions serve on the board. (Action Vol XXVII, No 3, 4/94)
Title: H.B. 250 How Acres will be managed
Source: Utah Education Association
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| VA | Signed into law 04/1994 | P-12 | Relates to clean indoor air in public schools; prohibits smoking in the public schools of the Commonwealth, effective July 1, 1995.
Title: H.B. 249 - School Facilities
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| WI | Signed into law 04/1994 | P-12 | (Effective: 04/12/94) A school board or governing body of a private school may apply to the state superintendent for a grant to assist in establishing a school breakfast program. Beginning in the 1994-95 school year, the state superintendent shall award grants from an appropriation of $150,000. The state superintendent may award a grant of up to $10,000 to a school board or governing body of a private school under this new law only if all of the following apply: a) The school board or governing body agrees to operate a school breakfast program for at least three school years. b) The funds will be used for programs in schools in which at least 20% of the pupils enrolled are eligible for free or reduced price lunches. c) The school board or governing body has adopted a plan to maximize the participation in the program of pupils who are eligible for free or reduced price lunches. A school board or governing body of a private school that received a grant under this new law, may apply in successive school years for a grant under this law, to expand the program to additional schools. A grant awarded under this law may be used only for nonrecurring costs including site improvement, the purchase of equipment, the costs of training necessary to establish a school breakfast program and the costs of publicizing new programs. A grant may not be used for recurring costs, including food, supplies and support for permanent positions, or to reimburse for services or equipment that has already been contracted for or purchased. The state superintendent shall promulgate rules to implement and administer this new law. Beginning in the 1994-95 school year, a school board may submit enrollment data to the department of health and social services for the purpose of directly certifying children as eligible for free or reduced price meals under federal school nutrition programs. The department of health and social services shall prescribe a format for the report. Whenever a school district that is located in whole or in part in a county that has converted to the client assistance for reemployment and economic support data system submits a report in the prescribed format, the department of health and social services shall determine which children enrolled in the school disrict are members of families receiving aid to families with dependent children or food stamps, or both, and shall provide the information to the school board as soon thereafter as possible. The school board shall use the information to directly certify children as eligible for free or reduced price meals served by the school district under federal school nutrition programs. The state superintendent shall assist school boards in developing a method for submitting enrollment data to the department of health and social services. (WAS.B. A New Law 4/12/94)
Title: A.B. 582 School Breakfast Program and School Nutrition Program Eligibility
Source: WASB A New Law
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| CA | Signed into law 03/1994 | P-12 | StateNet Summary: Bonds: school facilities funding Enacts the Safe Schools Act of 1994, which upon approval by the state electorate at the 6/7/94 direct primary election, would provide for the issuance of state general obligation bonds to provide aid to school districts in accordance with the Greene Act. Requires that any remaining funds from school construction bond measures be transferred to the State School Building Lease-Purchase Fund for apportionment under the Greene Act.
Title: S.B. 190 Safe Schools Act of 1994
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| CO | Signed into law 03/1994 | P-12 | (Effective: 03/24/92) Specifies that a bank which opens accounts and accepts students' deposits at elementary schools in conjunction with other educational programs presented by the bank is not engaged in branch banking as defined by law. Requires a bank engaging in such activity to obtain the prior approval of the banking board. Defines elementary school as any school with students in kindergarten through 8th grade. (Legislative Summary 3/24/92)
Title: S.B. 92-54 Banks elementary school accounts
Source: Colorado Department of Education
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| IN | Signed into law 03/1994 | P-12 | Permits a school corporation, under certain circumstances, to use its capital projects fund to pay for services of certain employees, such as carpenters, electricians, plumbers, or other comparably skilled craft employees. Limits the number of employees that are covered by this authorization. (Statenet 3/4/94)
Title: S.B. 299 Use of Capital Funds to Pay for Certain Services
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| TN | Signed into law 03/1994 | P-12 | Authorizes local boards of education to promulgate and adopt rules and regulations prohibiting secondary school students from wearing clothing or accessories which denote membership in or affiliation with any gang associated with criminal activities while on school property. (Statenet 3/4/94)
This bill authorizes local boards of education to adopt rules which prohibit students in grades 6-12 from wearing gang associated clothing while on school property. (Legislative Summary 1994)
Title: S.B. 1748/H.B. 2009 Prohibition of Certain Clothing in Schools
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| UT | Signed into law 03/1994 | P-12 | Relates to public education; provides that school boards shall advertise for bids on school construction projects where the cost exceeds $100,000; provides that school boards may not bid on school construction projects if the estimated cost exceeds $100,000. (Statenet 3/16/94)
Title: H.B. 93 Bids on School Construction Projects
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| VA | Signed into law 03/1994 | P-12 | Eliminates the requirement that the first aid course required to be completed by school bus drivers be given by the American Red Cross, drops the requirement that contracts be supplied to school bus drivers within 30 days prior to their anniversary date, and replaces the requirement that school bus drivers wear safety belts while the bus is being used to transport school children with a requirement that they wear the belts while the bus is in motion. (Statenet 3/28/94)
Title: S.B. 144 School Bus Drivers/First Aid
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| MD | Passed 01/1994 | P-12 | Increases, to more than $350,000, the minimum amount of specified costs for school construction, renovation, or addition projects requiring approval by the State Superintendent of Schools (Statenet 4/7/94)
Title: S.B. 120 School Construction
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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