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State |
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Summary |
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 | 21st Century Skills |
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| Accountability |
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| Accountability--Accreditation |
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| Accountability--Measures/Indicators |
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| Accountability--Reporting Results |
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| Accountability--Rewards |
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| Accountability--Sanctions/Interventions |
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| Accountability--Sanctions/Interventions--Learnfare |
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| Accountability--Sanctions/Interventions--No Pass No Drive |
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| Accountability--Sanctions/Interventions--No Pass No Play |
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| Accountability--Sanctions/Interventions--Takeovers |
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| Accountability--School Improvement |
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| Adult Basic Education |
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| Assessment |
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| Assessment--Accommodations |
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| Assessment--College Entrance Exams |
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| Assessment--Computer Based |
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| Assessment--End-of-Course |
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| Assessment--Formative/Interim |
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| Assessment--High Stakes/Competency |
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| Assessment--Legal Issues |
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| Assessment--NAEP (NAEP Results and NAEP Organization) |
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| Assessment--Performance Based/Portfolio |
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| Assessment--Value Added |
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| At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention) |
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| At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention)--Alternative Education |
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| At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention)--Drugs/Alcohol |
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| Attendance |
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| Attendance--Compulsory |
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| Attendance--Statutory Ages (Upper and Lower) |
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| Attendance--Truancy |
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| Background Checks |
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| Bilingual/ESL |
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| Brain Research |
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| Business Involvement |
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| Career/Technical Education |
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| Career/Technical Education--Career Academies/Apprenticeship |
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| Cheating |
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| Choice of Schools |
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| Choice of Schools--Charter Schools |
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| Choice of Schools--Charter Schools--Charter Districts |
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| Choice of Schools--Charter Schools--Closings |
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| Choice of Schools--Charter Schools--Cyber Charters |
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| Choice of Schools--Charter Schools--Finance |
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| Choice of Schools--Charter Schools--Research |
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| Choice of Schools--Choice/Open Enrollment |
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| Choice of Schools--Choice/Open Enrollment--Research |
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| Choice of Schools--Innovation Schools |
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| Choice of Schools--Magnet or Specialized Schools |
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| Choice of Schools--Tax Credits |
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| Choice of Schools--Vouchers |
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| Choice of Schools--Vouchers--Privately Funded |
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| Civic Education |
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| Civic Education--Character Education |
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| Civic Education--Civic Knowledge and Literacy |
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| Civic Education--Curriculum/Standards |
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| Civic Education--Pledge of Allegiance |
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| Class Size |
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| Curriculum |
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| Curriculum--Alignment |
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| Curriculum--Arts Education |
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| Curriculum--Censorship |
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| Curriculum--Core Curriculum |
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| Curriculum--Drivers Education |
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| Curriculum--Environmental Education |
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| Curriculum--Excusal |
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| Curriculum--Family Living Education |
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| Curriculum--Financial Literacy/Economics Ed. |
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| Curriculum--Foreign Language/Sign Language |
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| Curriculum--Geography Education |
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| Curriculum--Health/Nutrition Education |
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| Curriculum--Home Economics |
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| Curriculum--International Education |
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| Curriculum--Language Arts |
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| Curriculum--Language Arts--Writing/Spelling |
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| Curriculum--Mathematics |
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| Curriculum--Multicultural |
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| Curriculum--Physical Education |
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| Curriculum--Science |
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| Curriculum--Sex Education |
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| Curriculum--Social Studies/History |
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| Curriculum--Speech Education |
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| Data-Driven Improvement |
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| Demographics |
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| Demographics--Condition of Children/Adults |
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| Demographics--Enrollments |
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| Desegregation |
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| Economic/Workforce Development |
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| Education Research |
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| Equity |
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| Federal |
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| Finance |
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| Finance--Adequacy/Core Cost |
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| Finance--Aid to Private Schools |
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| Finance--Bonds |
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| Finance--District |
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| Finance--Does Money Matter? |
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| Finance--Equity |
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| Finance--Facilities |
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| Finance--Federal |
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| Finance--Funding Formulas |
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| Finance--Litigation |
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| Finance--Local Foundations/Funds |
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| Finance--Lotteries |
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| Finance--Performance Funding |
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| Finance--Private Giving |
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| Finance--Resource Efficiency |
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| Finance--State Budgets/Expenditures |
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| Finance--Student Fees |
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| Finance--Taxes/Revenues |
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| Finance--Taxes/Revenues--Alternative Revenues |
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| Governance |
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| Governance--Deregulation/Waivers/Home Rule |
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| Governance--Ethics/Conflict of Interest |
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| Governance--Mandates |
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| Governance--Regional Entities |
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| Governance--School Boards |
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| Governance--School Boards--Training |
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| Governance--Site-Based Management |
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| Governance--State Boards/Chiefs/Agencies |
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| Health |
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| Health--Child Abuse |
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| Health--Mental Health |
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| Health--Nutrition |
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| Health--School Based Clinics or School Nurses |
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| Health--Suicide Prevention |
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| Health--Teen Pregnancy |
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| High School |
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| High School--Advanced Placement |
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| High School--College Readiness |
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| High School--Credit Recovery |
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| High School--Dropout Rates/Graduation Rates |
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| High School--Dual/Concurrent Enrollment |
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| High School--Early Colleges/Middle Colleges |
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| High School--Exit Exams |
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| High School--GED (General Education Development) |
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| High School--Graduation Requirements |
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| High School--International Baccalaureate |
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| Instructional Approaches |
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| Instructional Approaches--Constructivism |
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| Instructional Approaches--Grading Practices |
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| Instructional Approaches--Homeschooling |
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| Instructional Approaches--Homework/Study Skills |
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| Instructional Approaches--Official English |
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| Instructional Approaches--Problem Based Learning |
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| Instructional Approaches--Single-Sex Education |
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| Instructional Approaches--Time/Time on Task |
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| Instructional Approaches--Tracking/Ability Grouping |
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| Integrated Services/Full-Service Schools |
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| International Benchmarking |
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| Leadership |
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| Leadership--District Superintendent |
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| Leadership--District Superintendent--Compensation and Diversified Pay |
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| Leadership--Principal/School Leadership |
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| Leadership--Principal/School Leadership--Certification and Licensure |
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| Leadership--Principal/School Leadership--Compensation and Diversified Pay |
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| Leadership--Principal/School Leadership--Evaluation and Effectiveness |
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| Leadership--Principal/School Leadership--Induction Programs and Mentoring |
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| Leadership--Principal/School Leadership--Preparation |
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| Leadership--Principal/School Leadership--Preparation--Alternative |
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| Leadership--Principal/School Leadership--Professional Development |
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| Leadership--Principal/School Leadership--Recruitment and Retention |
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| Leadership--Principal/School Leadership--Tenure |
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| Middle School |
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| Minority/Diversity Issues |
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| Minority/Diversity Issues--African American |
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| Minority/Diversity Issues--American Indian / Alaska Native / Native Hawaiian |
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| Minority/Diversity Issues--Hispanic |
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| No Child Left Behind |
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| No Child Left Behind--Adequate Yearly Progress |
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| No Child Left Behind--Assessment |
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| No Child Left Behind--Choice/Transfer |
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| No Child Left Behind--Consequences for Schools |
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| No Child Left Behind--Finance |
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| No Child Left Behind--Parent Involvement |
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| No Child Left Behind--Reauthorization Issues/Waivers |
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| No Child Left Behind--Report Cards |
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| No Child Left Behind--School Support |
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| No Child Left Behind--Special Populations |
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| No Child Left Behind--Supplemental Services |
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| Online Learning--Digital/Blended Learning |
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| Online Learning--Virtual Schools/Courses |
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| P-16 or P-20 |
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| P-3 |
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| P-3 Brain Development |
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| P-3 Child Care |
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| P-3 Content Standards and Assessment |
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| P-3 Data Systems |
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| P-3 Early Intervention (0-3) |
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| P-3 Ensuring Quality |
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| P-3 Evaluation/Economic Benefits |
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| P-3 Family Involvement |
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| P-3 Finance |
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| P-3 Governance |
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| P-3 Grades 1-3 |
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| P-3 Health and Mental Health |
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| P-3 Kindergarten |
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| P-3 Kindergarten--Full-Day Kindergarten |
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| P-3 Kindergarten--Full Day Kindergarten |
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| P-3 Preschool |
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| P-3 Public/Private Partnerships |
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| P-3 Special Ed./Inclusion |
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| P-3 Teaching Quality/Professional Development |
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| Parent/Family |
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| Parent/Family--Parent Rights |
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| Parent/Family--Research |
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| Partnerships--University/School |
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| Postsecondary |
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| Postsecondary Accountability |
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| Postsecondary Accountability--Accreditation |
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| Postsecondary Accountability--Diploma Mills |
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| Postsecondary Accountability--Licensing/Program Review and Approval |
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| Postsecondary Accountability--Student Learning |
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| Postsecondary Affordability |
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| Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
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| Postsecondary Affordability--Textbooks |
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| Postsecondary Affordability--Tuition/Fees |
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| Postsecondary Affordability--Tuition/Fees--Prepd/College Savings Plans |
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| Postsecondary Affordability--Tuition/Fees--Undocumented Immigrants |
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| Postsecondary Faculty |
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| Postsecondary Faculty--Compensation |
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| Postsecondary Faculty--Intellectual Property |
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| Postsecondary Faculty--Teaching Assistants |
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| Postsecondary Faculty--Tenure |
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| Postsecondary Finance |
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| Postsecondary Finance--Efficiency/Performance-Based Funding |
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| Postsecondary Finance--Facilities |
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| Postsecondary Finance--Revenue and Expenditures |
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| Postsecondary Governance and Structures |
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| Postsecondary Governance and Structures--Administrative/Leadership Issues |
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| Postsecondary Governance and Structures--State Executives/State Agencies |
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| Postsecondary Institutions |
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| Postsecondary Institutions--Community/Technical Colleges |
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| Postsecondary Institutions--For-Profit/Proprietary |
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| Postsecondary Institutions--Four-Year Baccalaureate |
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| Postsecondary Institutions--HBCUs/Minority-Serving Institutions |
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| Postsecondary Institutions--Private/Independent |
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| Postsecondary Online Instruction |
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| Postsecondary Participation |
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| Postsecondary Participation--Access |
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| Postsecondary Participation--Admissions Requirements |
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| Postsecondary Participation--Affirmative Action |
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| Postsecondary Participation--Enrollments (Statistics) |
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| Postsecondary Participation--Outreach |
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| Postsecondary Students |
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| Postsecondary Students--Adults |
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| Postsecondary Students--Disabled |
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| Postsecondary Students--Foster Youth |
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| Postsecondary Students--Graduate/Professional |
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| Postsecondary Students--International |
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| Postsecondary Students--Low-Income |
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| Postsecondary Students--Military |
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| Postsecondary Students--Minority |
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| Postsecondary Success |
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| Postsecondary Success--Completion |
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| Postsecondary Success--Completion--Completion Rates (Statistics) |
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| Postsecondary Success--Developmental/Remediation |
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| Postsecondary Success--Retention/Persistence |
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| Postsecondary Success--Transfer/Articulation |
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| Private Schools |
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| Privatization |
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| Privatization--Education Management Agencies (EMOs) |
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| Proficiency-Based Approaches |
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| Promising Practices |
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| Promotion/Retention |
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| Public Attitudes |
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| Public Involvement |
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| Purposes of Public Education |
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| Reading/Literacy |
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| Reading/Literacy--Adult Literacy |
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| Religion |
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| Religion--Prayer/Meditation |
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| Religion--Scientific Creationism (Evolution) |
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| Rural |
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| Scheduling/School Calendar |
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| Scheduling/School Calendar--Day/Class Length |
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| Scheduling/School Calendar--Extended Day Programs |
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| Scheduling/School Calendar--Summer School |
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| Scheduling/School Calendar--Week |
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| Scheduling/School Calendar--Year |
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| Scheduling/School Calendar--Year Round |
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| School Climate/Culture |
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| School Safety |
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| School Safety--Bullying Prevention/Conflict Resolution |
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| School Safety--Code of Conduct |
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| School Safety--Corporal Punishment |
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| School Safety--Disaster/Emergency Preparedness |
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| School Safety--Expulsion/Suspension |
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| School Safety--No Child Left Behind--Safe Schools |
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| School Safety--Sexual Harassment and Assault |
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| School Safety--Special Education |
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| School Safety--Uniforms/Dress Codes |
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| School/District Structure/Operations |
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| School/District Structure/Operations--District Consolidation/Deconsolidation |
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| School/District Structure/Operations--District Size |
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| School/District Structure/Operations--Facilities |
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| School/District Structure/Operations--Food Service |
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| School/District Structure/Operations--Libraries |
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| School/District Structure/Operations--Org. (K-3/K-8 etc.) |
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| School/District Structure/Operations--Personnel (Non-Teaching) |
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| School/District Structure/Operations--School Size |
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| School/District Structure/Operations--Shared Services |
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| School/District Structure/Operations--Staffing Ratios |
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| School/District Structure/Operations--Transportation |
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| Service-Learning |
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| Special Education |
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| Special Education--Federal Law/Regulations |
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 | Special Education--Finance |
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| NY | Vetoed 07/2012 | P-12 | Requires that the determination of appropriate educational programs and placements for a student with a disability include, upon the parent's request, a determination of the child's ability to learn in any given educational environment. Requires that such determination take into account the possible educational impact that differences between the school environment and the home environment/family background may have on the child's ability to receive a free appropriate public education. Also requires a district to grant or deny a parent's request for tuition reimbursement within 90 days of receipt of request. If the district grants the request for tuition reimbursement, requires the reimbursement to be provided within 30 days from the date the request was granted. Also requires that upon written agreement that a unilateral parental placement was appropriate and that tuition reimbursement should be granted for such placement, the tuition reimbursement must continue until the committee on special education amends or modifies the child's individualized education program (IEP). Bill text: http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?default_fld=%0D%0A&bn=S07722&term=&Summary=Y&Memo=Y&Text=Y
Veto message accessible from http://public.leginfo.state.ny.us/menugetf.cgi (type in S7722 in blank field, hit "search", and select "Veto No. 130 of 2012" at upper right of screen you are taken to).
Title: S.B. 7722
Source: assembly.state.ny.us
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| CA | Signed into law 06/2012 | P-12 | From section 56 of bill summary: Reduces by various amounts appropriations made for supplemental school counseling, special education, partnership academies, instructional support to help pupils pass the high school exit examination, English language tutoring to limited-English-proficient pupils, incentive grants to support the hiring of more K-8 physical education teachers, the Arts and Music Block Grant, certificated staff mentoring, and community colleges. Makes available for reappropriation the unencumbered balances of specified appropriations made in prior fiscal years for various educational purposes and would reappropriate $220,137,000 to the state department of education for apportionment for special education programs. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/11-12/bill/sen/sb_1001-1050/sb_1016_bill_20120627_chaptered.pdf
Title: S.B. 1016 - Appropriations and Reappropriations
Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov
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| FL | Signed into law 04/2012 | P-12 | From bill analysis: Reduces the 5% charter school administrative fee charged by school districts for schools that have an exceptional student enrollment that is 75% or greater of the total school enrollment. Bases the fee for affected schools on unweighted FTE rather than weighted FTE.
Bill text (page 10 of 41): http://myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=_h5101er.docx&DocumentType=Bill&BillNumber=5101&Session=2012
Final bill analysis (pages 3-5 of 13): http://myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=h5101z.PKAS.DOCX&DocumentType=Analysis&BillNumber=5101&Session=2012
Title: H.B. 5101 - Charter School Administrative Fee
Source: myfloridahouse.gov
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| MN | Signed into law 04/2012 | P-12 | Extends nonresident special education billing procedures to students without a disability with a short term or temporary physical or emotional illness or disability in a temporary placement, and to students in residential facilities, including detention centers. Article 3, Sec. 2-3 https://www.revisor.mn.gov/data/revisor/law/2012/0/2012-239.pdf
Title: H.F. 2949
Source: https://www.revisor.mn.gov/
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| NY | Issued 04/2012 | P-12 | Establishes the New NY Education Reform Commission to provide guidance and advice to the governor on education policy, performance, and innovation. Directs the commission to study the best national and international public education models and best practices to recommend ways to increase educational productivity and student performance in the state. Directs the commission to comprehensively review and assess the state's education system to ultimately create significant savings while improving student achievement and providing students with a high-quality education. Requires that the review include, but not be limited to:
a. studying teacher recruitment and performance, including incentives to keep the best teachers, and the teacher preparation, certification and evaluation systems;
b. analyzing factors that support P-12 student achievement to ensure all students are on track to graduate from high school ready for college, careers, and active citizenship;
c. evaluating education funding, distribution of state aid, and operating costs to identify efficiencies in spending while maintaining the quality of educational programs, including special education;
d. increasing parent and family engagement, including examining the school calendar and district-level policies that increase parental involvement;
e. examining the unique issues faced by high-need urban and rural districts, including comparing best practices and identifying the different services that these districts might require to be successful;
f. analyzing the availability of technology and its best use in the classroom, including the accessibility of, and obstacles to, using technology in the classroom in light of the requirements and demands of the job market to best prepare our students; and
g. examining the overall structure of the state's education system to determine whether it meets students' needs while respecting the taxpayer.
Directs the commission to compare student achievement outcomes with education spending, focusing on districts that generate higher than average achievement per dollars spent, including high-need districts that are providing students with the opportunity to receive a sound basic education, and identifying how districts can boost student achievement without increasing spending. Directs the commission to submit preliminary recommendations by December 2012, and final recommendations by September 2013, at which time the commission will terminate its work.
http://www.governor.ny.gov/executiveorder/44
Title: E.O. No. 44
Source: www.governor.ny.gov
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| NY | Signed into law 03/2012 | P-12 | Part A, Sections 12-a and 12-c: Provides that for the 2011-12 and 2012-13 school years, tuition for students enrolled in state-supported schools for the deaf or blind must be charged to the student's district of residence at the time of admission or readmission. Provides that for the 2013-14 school year and thereafter, tuition must be charged to the child's current district of residence, to be billed on a quarterly basis.
Section 12-b : Requires, effective with the 2013-14 school year and thereafter, the *current* school district of residence of a child attending a state-supported school school for the deaf is required to reimburse the state for any state expenditure in an amount equal to the positive difference between the district's basic contribution minus the tuition paid by the district.
Chapter 57: http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?default_fld=&bn=A09057&term=&Summary=Y&Memo=Y&Text=Y#jump_to_Text
Title: A.B. 9057 - Tuition Payments for Children Attending State-Supported Schools for the Deaf and Blind
Source: assembly.state.ny.us
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| CA | Signed into law 07/2011 | P-12 | From bill summary: Amends the Budget Act of 2011 by reducing the amount of moneys appropriated from the general fund to the state department of education for special education instruction. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/11-12/bill/asm/ab_0101-0150/ab_108_bill_20110726_chaptered.pdf
Title: A.B. 108 - Special Education Funding
Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov
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| NC | Veto overridden: legislature has overridden governor's veto 06/2011 | P-12 | Directs the state board to allocate additional funds for children with disabilities on the basis of $3,585.88 per child. Requires that each local school administrative unit receive funds for the lesser of (i) all children who are identified as children with disabilities or (ii) 12.5% of its 2011-2012 allocated average daily membership in the local school administrative unit. Requires that such dollar amounts be adjusted in accordance with legislative salary increments, retirement rate adjustments, and health benefit adjustments for personnel who serve children with disabilities.
Pages 41-42 of 342: http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/House/PDF/H200v9.pdf
Title: H.B. 200 - Funds for Children with Disabilities
Source: www.ncleg.net
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| CO | Signed into law 05/2011 | P-12 | Revises special education statutes. Expands definition of children with disabilities to include conditions such as autism and serious emotional disability, and ages birth through two years. Clarifies that "educational placement" means providing services along a continuum of alternative placements, but not a specific place. Clarifies types of settings special education students may be placed, such as certain facilities, foster or group homes. Revises description of least restrictive environments, and clarifies and expands definition of "parent." Defines special education expenditures and which employees, costs, materials and services the funds can support. Describes requirements, circumstances and procedures for administrative units to purchase special education services. Describes procedures and requirements for special education students who enroll in charter schools and online programs.
http://www.leg.state.co.us/clics/clics2011a/csl.nsf/fsbillcont3/A58089DC75F0EAB18725780800800FD9?Open&file=1277_enr.pdf
Title: H.B. 1277
Source: http://www.leg.state.co.us
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| NY | Signed into law 03/2011 | P-12 | Sec. 51: Provides that effective with the 2011-12 school year, the district of residence must pay the tuition expenses of a child attending any of the state's schools for the deaf. Provides that the amount of tuition paid by the district is eligible for reimbursement to the extent provided in section 4204-b. Provides the state must pay the board and lodging expenses. (Prior to this lawmaking, the state paid for tuition, board and lodging).
Sec. 53: Amends section 4204-b. Provides that effective with the 2011-12 school year, a school district sending a student to one of the state schools for the blind or deaf is responsible for reimbursing the state in an amount equal to the difference between the school district contribution and the tuition paid by the district.
Sec. 54: Provides that effective with the 2011-12 school year, the district of residence must pay the tuition expenses of a child attending any of the state's schools for the blind. Provides that the amount of tuition paid by the district is eligible for reimbursement to the extent provided in section 4204-b. Provides the state must pay the board and lodging expenses. (Prior to this lawmaking, the state paid for tuition, board and lodging).
Chapter 58 http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?default_fld=&bn=S02808&Summary=Y&Memo=Y&Text=Y
Title: S.B. 2808 - Part A, Sec. 51, 53, 54
Source: assembly.state.ny.us
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| NY | Signed into law 03/2011 | P-12 | Increases percent reimbursement rate for school districts with a student with a disability placed in a state school or special act school district. Chapter 58 http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?default_fld=&bn=S02808&Summary=Y&Memo=Y&Text=Y
Title: S.B. 2808 - Part O
Source: assembly.state.ny.us
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| SD | Signed into law 03/2011 | P-12 | An Act to authorize a carryover of the fiscal year 2011 state aid to special education appropriation to fiscal year 2012.
Notwithstanding the provisions of §§ 4-8-19 and 13-37-40, any unencumbered funds appropriated from the general fund by subdivision (3) of section 11 of chapter 25 of the 2010 Session Laws for state aid to special education, equal to an amount necessary to meet the federal maintenance of effort requirement, shall be carried forward to fiscal year 2012. The Act is effective June 28, 2011.
http://legis.state.sd.us/sessions/2011/Bills/HB1249ENR.pdf
Title: H.B. 1249
Source: http://legis.state.sd.u
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| SD | Signed into law 03/2011 | P-12 | Revise certain allocations for disabilities in the state aid for special education formula.
http://legis.state.sd.us/sessions/2011/Bills/SB192ENR.pdf
Title: S.B. 192
Source: http://legis.state.sd.us
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| CA | Signed into law 06/2010 | P-12 | Respectfully memorializes the Congress and the President of the United States to enact one of the bills pending before Congress that would fully fund the federal Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/09-10/bill/asm/ab_0001-0050/ajr_31_bill_20100628_chaptered.pdf
Title: A.J.R. 31
Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov
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| KS | Signed into law 04/2010 | P-12 | Amends the special education catastrophic state aid law by requiring that any federal or state special education aid be deducted when computing the entitlement for catastrophic aid, beginning in the 2009-2010 school year. The bill increased the threshold for determining eligibility for catastropic aid to twice the state aid paid per special teacher beginning in the 2010-2011 school year. The state board of education is directed to determine the minimum and maximum amounts of state aid paid to districts for the costs of special teachers, beginning in the 2011-2012 school year. Minimum and meximum amounts are to be calculated based upon total enrollment. Bill amends a provision in the special education law which provides for the payment of Medicaid replacement aid to school districts. Under current law, the state board of education is required to designate a portion of special education state aid as Medicaid replacement. Chapter 2010-127
http://www.kslegislature.org/legsrv-bills/showBill.do?id=375028
Title: S.B. 359
Source: http://www.kslegislature.org
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| NE | Signed into law 04/2010 | P-12 | Changes provisions relating to payment for educational services; defines and redefines terms under the Special education Act; relates to determinations of a student's resident district.
http://www.nebraskalegislature.gov/FloorDocs/Current/PDF/Slip/LB1087.pdf
Title: L.B. 1087
Source: http://www.nebraskalegislature.gov
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| SD | Signed into law 02/2010 | P-12 | Authorizes the transfer of certain special education funds to other funds under certain conditions; provides that in any fiscal year in which a school district is allocated federal Individuals with Disabilities Education Act funds greater than the allocation received in the prior fiscal year, the school district may transfer certain local special education funds to any other fund to carry out activities that could be supported with funds under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965.
http://legis.state.sd.us/sessions/2010/Bill.aspx?File=HB1020ENR.htm
Title: H.B. 1020
Source: http://legis.state.sd.us/
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| CA | Signed into law 10/2009 | P-12 | Relates to the Leroy F. Greene School Facilities Act, which requires the state allocation board to allocate funding to school districts for school facilities and requires the board to determine the maximum total new construction grant eligibility of an applicant. New provision requires an increase made to the per-unhoused-pupil grant amounts also to be made to the per-unhoused-pupil who is a qualifying individual with exceptional needs grants amounts. Relates to funding for exceptional needs pupils. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/09-10/bill/sen/sb_0301-0350/sb_334_bill_20091011_chaptered.pdf
Title: S.B. 334
Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov
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| CA | Signed into law 10/2009 | P-12 | Extends to 2013 provision requiring the department to amend the Medicaid state plan with respect to the billing option for services by local educational agencies to ensure that schools are reimbursed for all
eligible services that they provide that are not precluded by federal requirements. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/09-10/bill/asm/ab_1501-1550/ab_1540_bill_20091011_chaptered.pdf
Title: A.B. 1540
Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov
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| IL | Signed into law 08/2009 | P-12 | Amends the Children with Disabilities Article of the School Code. Amends job titles defined under staff working on behalf of children who have not been identified as eligible for special education and for eligible children with physical disabilities, including in hospital or home instruction. Amends provisions related to reimbursement for personnel and transportation costs for such students. Specifies criteria a child must meet to qualify for home or hospital instruction. Repeals certain provisions related to reimbursement for each school psychologist and qualified teacher working in a program for children of preschool age who are deaf or hard-of-hearing. http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/96/HB/PDF/09600HB1190lv.pdf
Title: H.B. 1190
Source: www.ilga.gov
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| NY | Signed into law 08/2009 | P-12 | Creates a residential care off-site facility demonstration project to assess reimbursement methodologies and delivery methods in conjunction with the provision of physical, occupational and speech therapy and related education services provided by a licensed professional employed at an off-site facility operated by a residential health care facility. http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?bn=A06818&sh=t
Title: A.B. 6818
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| CA | Signed into law 07/2009 | P-12 | From Legislative Counsel's Digest:
In providing early intervention services and support to all eligible infants and toddlers and their families, requires a family's private insurance for medical services or a health care service plan identified in the individualized family service plan to be used, except for specified purposes. Revises the definition of an eligible infant or toddler for purposes of eligibility for services under the California Early Intervention Services Act. Revises the contents of the individualized family service plan that all infants or toddlers receiving services under the Act must have, including, commencing July 1, 2009, requiring the development, review or modification of an individualized family service plan to consider certain group training and preschool activities. Makes related changes. Prohibits regional centers from purchasing nonrequired services, as defined, except durable medical equipment.
Requires any vendor of applied behavioral analysis services or intensive behavioral intervention services under either the California Early Intervention Services Act or the Lanterman Developmental Disabilities Services Act to conduct a behavioral assessment of each infant or toddler to whom the vendor provides these services and design an intervention plan for the child. Requires the regional center to purchase these services, subject to prescribed limitations. Requires the state department of developmental services to establish a prevention program for at-risk babies, as defined, under which intake, assessment, case management and referral to generic agencies would be provided. Requires each regional center to purchase or provide services under the program pursuant to its allocation from the department.
Under existing law, the Lanterman Developmental Disabilities Services Act, the state department of developmental services is responsible for providing various services and supports to individuals with developmental
disabilities, and for ensuring the appropriateness and quality of those services and supports. Existing law requires that life quality assessments be conducted with consumers served by private nonprofit regional centers, pursuant to specified criteria. New policy requires the state department of developmental services to implement an improved, unified quality assessment system, on or before January 1, 2010. Requires the department to identify a valid and reliable quality assurance instrument that includes assessments of consumer and family satisfaction, provision of services, and personal outcomes. Requires the department to contract with an independent agency or organization for this purpose. Provides implementation of these provisions is subject to an annual appropriation of funds in the Budget Act.
Imposes various requirements relating to the funding of transportation services for persons with developmental disabilities at the time of the development, review or modification of a consumer's individual program plan (IPP) or individualized family service plan (IFSP). Existing law permits a regional center to purchase services or supports for the consumer from any individual or agency that the regional center and consumer (or consumer's parents, where appropriate) determine will best accomplish all or any part of the consumer's IPP. New provision requires the selection of the least costly available provider of comparable services that is able to accomplish all or part of the consumer's IPP. Also prohibits a regional center from purchasing experimental treatments, theraputic services or devices that have not been clinically determined or scientifically proven to be effective or safe or for which risks and complications are unknown. Requires a regional center to annually provide the consumer and his/her parents a statement of services and supports that the regional center purchased, for the purpose of ensuring that they are delivered.
Existing law contains various requirements pertaining to the responsibilities of the department and regional centers concerning the monitoring of consumers in health and residential care facilities. New provision, effective July 1, 2009, provides that a regional center is not required to perform triennial evaluations of specified community care facilities. Effective July 1, 2009, with specified exceptions, prohibits a regional center from newly vendoring a 24-hour residential care facility licensed by the state department of social services with a licensed capacity of 16 or more beds.
Existing law requires a regional center to identify and pursue all possible sources of funding for consumers, including governmental or other entities or programs required to provide or pay the costs of providing services. New provision requires that the department, in consultation with stakeholders, develop an alternative service delivery model that provides an Individual Choice Budget for obtaining quality services and supports that provides choice and flexibility within a finite budget that, in the aggregate, reduces regional center purchase of service expenditures, reduces reliance on the General Fund and maximizes federal financial participation. Effective July 1, 2009, prohibits a regional center from purchasing specified services pending implementation of the Individual Choice Budget, except that an exemption from this prohibition may be granted under prescribed circumstances.
Effective July 1, 2009, also imposes restrictions on the amount of respite services that may be purchased for a consumer, except that a regional center may grant an exemption from these restrictions under
prescribed circumstances. This respite service provision would be repealed upon the occurrence of prescribed conditions relating to the implementation of the Individual Choice Budget. Effective July 1, 2009, and except as prescribed, provides that a regional center must not purchase any service that would otherwise be available from prescribed publicly funded program, private insurance or a health care service plan when the consumer or family meets the criteria of that coverage but chooses not to pursue that coverage. Also, effective July 1, 2009, and except as prescribed, prohibits a regional center from purchasing medical or dental services for a consumer 3 years of age or older from the Medi-Cal program private insurance or health care service plan unless the regional center is provided documentation of a Medi-Cal, private insurance or health care service plan denial appeal is being pursued, and the regional center makes a specified determination regarding the appeal.
Existing law requires the director of developmental services to establish, annually review, and adjust as needed, a schedule of parental fees for services received through the regional centers. Under existing law, adjustment of the parental fees by the department is subject to the approval of the state council on developmental disabilities. New provision revises the provisions relating to parental fees, by, among other things, exempting the July 1, 2009, parental fee adjustment from approval by the state council on developmental disabilities and providing for additional factors to be used in determining the fee adjustment.
Existing law authorizes an in-home respite worker to perform gastrostomy care and feeding of regional center clients, after completing designated training. New provision expands these provisions to include colostomy, ileostomy and urinary catheter care, and would refer to these services collectively as incidental medical services. Revises applicable training requirements, and provides for specified wage increases for in-home respite agencies and staff providing incidental medical services.
Require the department and the State Department of Health Care Services, jointly, to seek a Medi-Cal program state plan amendment from the federal government to expand federal financial participation for services to persons with developmental disabilities provided by regional centers.
Existing law requires the Director of Developmental Services to establish, maintain, and revise, as necessary, an equitable process for setting rates of state payment for nonresidential services purchased by regional centers, and authorizes the director to promulgate implementing regulations. New provision, effective July 1, 2009, prohibits regional centers from compensating designated nonresidential service programs for providing any service to a consumer on any of a list of holidays specified in the bill, with the department authorized to adjust these holidays through a program directive.
Requires the department to provide information to the Assembly Committee on Budget and Senate Committee on Budget and Fiscal Review during budget hearings for the 2010–11 fiscal year about the effect on the developmental service system of the specific cost containment measures implemented to achieve designated General Fund reductions for the 2009–10 fiscal year pursuant to a specified item of the Budget Act of
2009. Also requires the department to continue to convene, as appropriate, a stakeholder review process to obtain information and comments about implementation of these cost containment measures and their effect on the developmental service system. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/09-10/bill/asm/ab_0001-0050/abx4_9_bill_20090728_chaptered.pdf
Title: A.B. 9D
Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov
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| MO | Signed into law 07/2009 | P-12 | Modifies the elementary and secondary education funding formula. Beginning on July 1, 2010 moneys derived from the passage of Prposition A will be deposited into the Classroom Trust Fund and distributed to school districts in that manner. Act modifies the definition of "special education pupil count". Special education pupil count now includes the number of public school students with a services plan. The special education section of the act becomes effective July 1, 2009.
http://www.senate.mo.gov/09info/pdf-bill/tat/SB291.pdf
Title: S.B. 291--Education Funding
Source: http://wwww.senate.mo.gov
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| OH | Signed into law 07/2009 | P-12 | Authorizes two or more school boards in a county with a population greater than 1,200,000 to create a regional student education district (special taxing district) to fund special education and behavioral health services for students and their immediate families.
Pages 1202-1205 of 3120: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText128/128_HB_1_EN_N.pdf
DOE summary of H.B. 1: http://www.ode.state.oh.us/GD/DocumentManagement/DocumentDownload.aspx?DocumentID=71635
Title: H.B. 1 - Section 3313.83
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us
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| UT | Adopted 07/2009 | P-12 | Increases requirements related to notifying parents of students with IEPs about the availability of Carson Smith special needs scholarships to attend eligible private schools. Adds new language requiring eligible private schools that change ownership to submit a new application for eligibility to receive Carson Smith scholarship payments from the board; requires the application to demonstrate that the school continues to meet eligibility requirements established in rule. http://www.rules.utah.gov/publicat/bulletin/2009/20090515/32645.htm
Title: R277-602
Source: www.rules.utah.gov
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| TX | Signed into law 06/2009 | P-12 | Adds section 29.018. Directs the commissioner, using federal, appropriated state funds, or any other funds available, to make grants available to districts to help cover the cost of serving students with disabilities. Provides eligible districts are those with insufficient state and federal funds to cover the cost of serving an individual student or all students with disabilities. Requires districts receiving grants to report to the commissioner the amount of state/federal funds received to serve students with disabilities and the amount expended for such purpose. Allows district grant funds to go toward training personnel to provide special education services to a student with disabilities. Specifies that a recipient district must educate students with disabilities in the least restrictive environment that is appropriate to meet the student's educational needs. http://www.legis.state.tx.us/tlodocs/81R/billtext/pdf/HB03646F.pdf
Title: H.B. 3646 - Section 16
Source: www.legis.state.tx.us
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| ID | Signed into law 05/2009 | P-12 | Directs that references to the Idaho School for the Deaf and the Blind shall mean the Bureau of Educational Services for the Deaf and the Blind and locates the Bureau's budget within the Educational Support Program Division of Children's Programs. Chapter 326
http://www.legislature.idaho.gov/legislation/2009/S1233.htm
Title: S.B. 1233
Source: http://www.legislature.idaho.gov
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| ID | Signed into law 04/2009 | P-12 | Repeals certain provisions relating to the State School for the Deaf and the Blind; provides for moneys to go to any school for the deaf and the blind operated by the State Bureau of Educational Services for the Deaf and the Blind; establishes the Bureau for the purpose of providing supplemental services for students who are deaf or hard of hearing, blind or visually impaired; requires each school district to report the number of deaf and blind pupils attending the schools of the district. Chapter 168
http://www.legislature.idaho.gov/legislation/2009/S1074.pdf
Title: S.B. 1074
Source: http://www.legislature.idaho.gov/legislation/2009/S1074.pdf
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| WA | Signed into law 04/2009 | P-12 | Relates to Medicaid reimbursement; repeals provisions relating to billing for medical services provided through special education programs. Chapter 73
http://apps.leg.wa.gov/documents/billdocs/2009-10/Pdf/Bills/Session%20Law%202009/1155.SL.pdf
Title: H.B. 1155
Source: http://apps.leg.wa.gov
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| SD | Signed into law 03/2009 | P-12 | Revises allocations for disabilities in the state aid for special education formula.
http://legis.state.sd.us/sessions/2009/Bills/SB190ENR.pdf
Title: S.B. 190
Source: http://legis.state.sd.us/
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| NY | Adopted 10/2008 | P-12 | Adds a new section to establish a dispute resolution mechanism for costs for special education services provided to a non-resident student with a disability who is parentally placed in a nonpublic school.
Title: Title 8 NYCRR Section 177.2
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| IL | Signed into law 08/2008 | P-12 | Amends the School Code and the Juvenile Court Act of 1987. Distinguishes funding provisions for students in residential programs who are not eligible for special education services and funding provisions for students with disabilities who are in residential programs. Provides that legislation relating to students in residential programs who are not eligible for special education services shall not be construed to relieve the student's resident district of financial responsibility based on the manner in which the student was placed at the facility.
Provides that when a dispute arises over the determination of the student's district of residence, any person or entity, including a school district or residential facility, may make a written request for a residency decision to the state superintendent, who must issue his or her decision in writing. Provides that the decision of the state superintendent is final.
Repeals certain provisions relating to the payment and reimbursement of costs associated with a disabled student placed in residential facilities by a public agency or court. Creates new section 105 ILCS 5/14-7.05 related to the payment of, and dispute resolution over, costs associated with a student with a disability in a residential facility placement. Provides the school district of residency is responsible for and must be reimbursed for the costs of educating the child. http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/95/SB/PDF/09500SB2042lv.pdf
Title: S.B. 2042
Source: www.ilga.gov/legislation
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| NY | Signed into law 07/2008 | P-12 | Provides that solely for purposes of providing services to special education students and the computation of state aid, a student with disabilities in a homeschool program must be considered a nonpublic school student eligible to receive services as such, provided the student has an individualized home instruction plan that the local superintendent has determined to be in compliance with state regulations. States that except as provided above, a home school is not to be considered a nonpublic school. http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?bn=A11463&sh=t
Title: A.B. 11463
Source: assembly.state.ny.us
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| RI | Signed into law 07/2008 | P-12 | Excerpt: (b) Notwithstanding any other federal or state law or regulation, the school committee where a parentally placed child who has or develops a disability in private school resides, shall provide the child with the same free and appropriate education as it provides to children in public schools. These children shall have the same rights and remedies in the regulations of the board of regents for elementary and secondary education governing the education of children with disabilities as children in public school relative to initially determining eligibility, implementation and/or any other rights and remedies relative to any special education services the child may be eligible or receive from the public school district.
(c) For the purpose of this statute, a parentally placed child who has or develops a disability in private school is defined as a child enrolled or placed in a private school by the
unilateral decision of his or her parents and without consolation of the public school district, who either has, or at some point while at the private school is diagnosed with a learning disability. Parents who unilaterally enroll their child in a private school are required to pay the tuition costs related to the child's education that are unrelated to the child's disability, and the public school district where the child resides is responsible for payment of the services related to the child's disability as developed and determined in the child's individual education plan.Clarifies the responsibilities of a municipality in regard to the education of children with special needs, along with responsibilities regarding the provision of a free and appropriate public education to those special needs students whose parents place them in a private school; relates to tuition costs; includes preschool.
http://www.rilin.state.ri.us/PublicLaws/law08/law08141.htm
Title: H.B. 7715
Source: http://www.rilin.state.ri.us
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| HI | Signed into law 06/2008 | P-12 | Extends the deadline within which to file a request for a due process hearing relating to the education of a child with a disability from ninety days to two years when the request is for reimbursement of costs of a child's placement. Provides that no later than 20 days prior to the convening of each regular session of the legislature, the department must submit a report indicating the total number of requests for a due process hearing relating to the reimbursement of costs for a child's placement filed by a parent or guardian of a child with a disability.
Requires the department to exercise oversight and monitoring of any child who has undergone unilateral special education placement as soon as practicable after the placement. http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/session2008/Bills/SB2004_CD1_.htm
Title: S.B. 2004
Source:
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| LA | Signed into law 06/2008 | P-12 | Provides for comprehensive revision of the educational opportunities for children with exceptionalities provisions. The following are the major changes, as set forth in the digest (http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=488156) of the reengrossed bill:
(1) Shortens current language; retains the requirement that the state and local education agencies must provide a free appropriate public education to students with disabilities ages 3-21.
(2) Adopts the definitions used in federal law (IDEA) except for those listed, "student with an exceptionality", "service agency", "local education agency", "and resident". The definition of "student with an exceptionality" mirrors the federal definition but retains
"gifted/talented".
(3) Provides that proposed law must be administered by the state department of education, with the approval of the state board of elementary and secondary education. Provides for a mechanism to ensure that interagency coordination occurs among state and local agencies. Emphasizes that local education agencies may use Medicaid and other sources of public insurers to provide services.
(4) Requires local education agencies to have in effect policies, procedures and programs to provide special education that are consistent with state policies and procedures. Allows the provision of services to children less than three years of age. Prohibits more than a three-year chronological age span in a class. Allows for the local education agencies to establish programs in concert with other local education agencies in order to pool resources. Requires that the local education agency provide transportation even when a cooperative endeavor between two local education agencies is necessary to provide special education services.
(5) Requires the state department of education to operate one or more residential schools for the education of students with hearing, visual, or orthopedic impairments and adopt regulations necessary to implement proposed law, including admission and placement requirements. Establishes the special school district to provide special education to students enrolled in any state-operated facility as a resident.
(6) Requires the state department of education and local education agencies to establish and maintain regulations and procedures to ensure that parents and children are afforded procedural safeguards, including but not limited to the right of a parent or agency to initiate a request for due process hearing. Limits liability to employees of school systems who render certain services. Defines confidentiality of information during mediation and individualized education program facilitation.
(7) States that local education agencies must provide special education and related services to children who are within the geographical boundaries of the local education agency; however, the local education agency must pay the costs only for such children who are residents therein. Provides that for a child living in a private residential facility in the state who is not a resident of the state or in the legal custody of a state agency, the local
education agency must provide the services and must be reimbursed by the residential facility. Requires the state to fund services for students in the special school
district and the special schools. Allows the state department of education and local education agencies to enter into purchase of service agreements or contracts to provide special education services.
Bill text: http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=495696
Title: H.B. 1053
Source: www.legis.state.la.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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| WI | Signed into law 04/2008 | P-12 | Directs the department of public instruction to determine the average percentage of work time of school nurses, social workers, psychologists and counselors that is spent providing services to students with disabilities. The department must issue rules establishing that the percentage of time determined to be for special education services is the proportional amount that the state will reimburse.
http://www.legis.state.wi.us/2007/data/acts/07Act221.pdf
Title: A.B. 906
Source: http://www.legis.state.wi.us
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| SD | Signed into law 02/2008 | P-12 | Revises provisions related to the calculation of state aid to special education; includes a cognitive disability; provides for nonresident students in the care and custody of a state agency.
Title: H.B. 1045
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| IL | Signed into law 01/2008 | P-12 | Guarantees that school districts will receive at least as much special education funding in the 2007-08 school year and each year thereafter as they did in the 2006-07 school year. http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/95/HB/PDF/09500HB4148lv.pdf
Title: H.B. 4148
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| CA | Signed into law 10/2007 | P-12 | Requires the auditor of a county whose Educational Revenue Augmentation Fund (ERAF) contains excess funds to apportion funds sufficient to cover not more than 50% of the amount determined to a special education local plan area (SELPA) for the funding of out-of-home care in licensed children's institutions. Requires the State Board of Education to apportion the remaining 50% or a larger percentage for that purpose if the ERAF has insufficient funds. Prohibits requiring a county to provide excess funds. Chapter 463
http://info.sen.ca.gov/pub/07-08/bill/sen/sb_0401-0450/sb_418_bill_20071011_chaptered.pdf
Title: S.B. 418
Source: http://info.sen.ca.gov
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| IL | Signed into law 08/2007 | P-12 | Provides that the state board of education's annual report to the general assembly and governor must include the total expenditures made by districts on special education services, including net special education expenditures over receipts received. Directs calculation in a manner specified by the state board using data obtained from the annual financial report, the funding and child tracking system and district enrollment information. http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/95/HB/PDF/09500HB1030lv.pdf
Title: H.B. 1030
Source: www.ilga.gov
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| IL | Signed into law 08/2007 | P-12 | Amends the School Code regarding special education classes for children from orphanages, foster family homes, children's homes, or in-state housing units. Provides that subject to appropriation, school districts must be reimbursed for the eligible costs of educating disabled students residentially placed by a state agency or the courts or placed and paid for by a state agency. http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/95/SB/PDF/09500SB0398lv.pdf
Title: S.B. 398
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| NY | Signed into law 08/2007 | P-12 | From bill analysis: Provides that, in an impartial hearing concerning services provided to students with disabilities, the burden of proof must be on the district or state agency and not on the student's parent, except that a parent seeking unilateral tuition reimbursement for a unilateral parental placement has the burden of proof on the appropriateness of such placement. http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?bn=A05396&sh=t
Title: A.B. 5396
Source: assembly.state.ny.us
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| IL | Adopted 07/2007 | P-12 | Creates a task force to study special education funding needs and to make recommendations as to how the state can increase special education funding and ease the financial burden on school districts. Provides for the membership of the task force; provides that the public members appointed by legislative leaders represent not just school districts, but also nonpublic special education facilities. Provides that the task force must be facilitated by the state board of education. Directs the task force to report its findings and recommendations to the governor and the general assembly by August 1, 2008. http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/95/HJR/PDF/09500HJ0024lv.pdf
Title: H.J.R. 24
Source: www.ilga.gov/legislation
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| RI | Signed into law 07/2007 | P-12 | Permits any career/technical charter public schools which enroll special education students from outside the school district with verifiable Individual Education Plans to receive from the sending district the average per pupil special education cost of the sending district.
http://www.rilin.state.ri.us/PublicLaws/law07/law07382.htm
Title: H.B. 6128
Source: http://www.rilin.state.ri.us
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| VT | Signed into law 06/2007 | P-12 | Amends provisions regarding joint contract school districts, genders and dates of birth of pupils, base contract amounts, K-12 tuition agreement terms, transportation assistance for technical education, salaries, school budgets, property tax revenue and rates, district spending per pupil, special education costs, district membership counts, distance learning, professional development programs, pregnant and teen parenting programs, district consolidation and budget deficits. Requires the department of education to develop a system for determining the school district membership count based on samplings conducted on at least one day in the autumn and one day in the spring, which shall be ready for implementation in the autumn of 2008. Long-term membership is to be determined by averaging the counts of the four most recent sample periods. In developing the system, the department shall consult with the Vermont superintendents association, the Vermont school boards association, and the Vermont association for school business officials. On or before January 15, 2008, the department shall report to the house and senate committees on education regarding the system it has developed and request any necessary legislative amendments, including transitional language. Requires the department of education to examine, analyze, and make recommendations concerning a process by which the state could develop a statewide, managed network offering shared, high-quality distance-learning opportunities to all Vermont schools through accredited, online course offerings from nationally recognized distance learning schools and through Vermont‑based distance learning courses. The department is also to consider ways in which such a network could be developed through collaboration within and among supervisory unions. Requires the department to present its analysis and recommendations in the form of a report to the general assembly on or before January 1, 2008.
http://www.leg.state.vt.us/docs/legdoc.cfm?URL=/docs/2008/acts/ACT066.HTM
Title: S.B. 93
Source: http://www.leg.state.vt.us/
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| VT | Signed into law 06/2007 | P-12 | Provides for a slight rollback in property tax assessments for this year and would place a cap on property evaluations in the future. In addition, requires studies that look at: high-spending school districts, special education cost and the feasibility of adopting a statewide system of 3 or 5 year rolling reappraisals. There is also some language which changes the way that school districts and unions are able to negotiate collective bargaining agreements.
http://www.leg.state.vt.us/docs/legdoc.cfm?URL=/docs/2008/acts/ACT082.HTM
Title: H.B. 526
Source: http://www.leg.state.vt.us
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| KS | Signed into law 05/2007 | P-12 | Establishes the Autism Task Force. Directs the task force to study and conduct hearings on the issues relating to, the needs of and services available for persons with autism including:
(1) The re-alignment of state agencies that provide services for children with autism;
(2) the availability or accessibility of services for the screening, diagnosis and treatment of children with autism and the availability or accessibility of services for the parents of children with autism;
(3) the need to increase the number of qualified professionals and paraprofessionals who are able to provide evidence-based intervention and other services to children with autism and incentives which may be offered to meet that need;
(4) the benefits currently available for services provided to children with autism;
(5) study and discussion of an autism registry which would (A) provide accurate numbers of children with autism, (B) improve the understanding of the spectrum of autism disorders and (C) allow for more complete epidemiologic surveys of the autism disorder;
(6) the establishment of a hotline that the parents of children with autism may use to locate services for children with autism;
(7) the creation and design of a financial assistance program for children with autism;
(8) additional funding sources to support programs that provide evidence-based intervention or treatment of autism, including funding for the development of regional centers of excellence for the diagnosis and treatment of autism; and
(9) develop recommendations for the best practices for early evidence-based intervention for children with autism.
Directs the task force to submit a preliminary report with recommendations for legislative changes by November 15, 2007, and the final report by November 15, 2008.
Establishes December 31, 2008 sunset for these provisions.
Bill: http://www.kslegislature.org/bills/2008/138.pdf
Fiscal note: http://www.kslegislature.org/fiscalnotes/2008/138.pdf
Supplementary note: http://www.kslegislature.org/supplemental/2008/SN0138.pdf
Title: S.B. 138
Source: www.kslegislature.org
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| MN | Signed into law 05/2007 | P-12 | The general education aid paid to school districts that were members of a cooperative that failed to meet federal special education maintenance of effort must be reduced by the amount that must be paid to the federal government due to the shortfall. The commissioner must apportion the aid reduction amount to the member school districts based on each district's individual shortfall in maintaining effort, and on each member district's proportionate share of any shortfall in expenditures made by the cooperative. Each district's proportionate share of shortfall in expenditures made by the cooperative must be calculated using the adjusted marginal pupil units of each member school district.
http://www.revisor.leg.state.mn.us/bin/bldbill.php?bill=H2245.2.html&session=ls85
Title: H.F. 2245 [Failure to Meet Federal Maintenance of Effort]
Source: http://www.revisor.leg.state.mn.us
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| AK | Adopted 02/2007 | P-12 | Amends rules concerning special education intensive services.Clarifies the criteria used to determine intensive special education fundingunder statute, and clarify certain definitions regarding this determination. ALASKA 3402
Title: 4 AAC 52.700, .790
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| OH | Signed into law 12/2006 | P-12 | Sec. 3301.0716 allows the state department of education to have access to personally identifiable student information under certain circumstances, including to respond to an appeal from a school district or school for verification of the accuracy of the student's score on a test; to determine whether the student satisfies the alternative conditions for a high school diploma; or if a testing contractor has notified the department that the student's written response to a question on such a test included threats or descriptions of harm to another person or the student's self and the information is necessary to enable the department to identify the student for purposes of notifying the school district or school in which the student is enrolled of the potential for harm. Allows the independent contractor engaged by the department of education to create and maintain for school districts and community schools the student data verification codes required by division (D)(2) of section 3301.0714 of the Revised Code to upon request of the director of health, assign a data verification code to a child who is receiving services under division (A)(2) of section 3701.61 of the Revised Code. The contractor is to provide that code to the director, who will submit it to the public school in which the child will be enrolled for special education and related services.
http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/bills.cfm?ID=126_HB_276
Title: H.B. 276 -- Section 3301.0716
Source: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us
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| GA | Adopted 11/2006 | P-12 | Terminates various grant programs within the state board of education. Creates low incidence grant program to provide funds to districts that do not earn sufficient state dollars to employ a teacher for a specific low incidence area of disability. Creates contract for the organization of conferences and professional development opportunities for the Georgia elementary school foreign languages model program.
Low incidence grant: http://rules.sos.state.ga.us/docs/160/1/4/100/00.pdf
Contract for the organization of conferences and professional development opportunities for the Georgia elementary school foreign languages model program: http://rules.sos.state.ga.us/docs/160/1/4/100/91.pdf
Title: GAC 160-1-4-.01, .17, .48, .53, .60, .85, .100, .124, .127, .129,.175, .187, .191, .195, .198, .202, .236, .257, .259, .264, .268, .269
Source: rules.sos.state.ga.us
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| NY | Vetoed 07/2006 | P-12 | Authorizes the inclusion of surplus factor in the determination of tuition for special education and special act school districts; directs the commissioner of education to develop a multi-year tuition setting methodology for special education and special act school districts.
Title: S.B. 5114
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| AZ | Signed into law 06/2006 | P-12 | Establishes a funded state program of scholarships for pupils with disabilities; provides such students with the option of attending or receiving a scholarship to any qualified school of the pupil's choice; provides that notwithstanding prescribed enrollment policies or desegregation provisions, a school district or charter school shall enroll any child pursuant to this Article; amends provisions regarding student transportation; provides for parental involvement; provides for testing.
http://www.azleg.gov/legtext/47leg/2r/bills/hb2676h.pdf
Title: H.B. 2676
Source: Arizona Legislature
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| HI | Signed into law 06/2006 | P-12 | Creates a revolving fund for the collection and disbursement of generated revenue to support the administration and operations of the department of education federal revenue maximization program and for medicaid-eligible services provided by the department.
http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/sessioncurrent/bills/hb2961_cd1_.htm
Title: H.B. 2961
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| MI | Signed into law 06/2006 | P-12 | Specifies that, beginning July 1, 2006, the board of a local school district or other public agency responsible for providing programs or services to a child with a disability would be responsible for 75% of the costs of providing a due process hearing.
http://www.legislature.mi.gov/documents/2005-2006/publicact/pdf/2006-PA-0186.pdf
Title: S.B. 1184
Source: http://www.legislature.mi.gov/
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| KS | Adopted 05/2006 | P-12 | Memorializes the President and Congress to make a serious commitment to improving the quality of the nation's public schools by substantially increasing its funding for the reauthorization of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001, the Higher Education Act, the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act and other educational related programs.
Requests that the President, U.S. Congress and U.S. Department of Education offer the various states waivers, exemptions or whatever flexibility is possible regarding the requirements of the reauthorization of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001, in any year that federal funding for public K-12 education is decreased to prevent states from spending state and local resources on activities that have not proven effective in raising student achievement and may not be the priority of an individual state.
Encourages other states to pass similar resolutions. Directs the secretary of state to send an enrolled copy of this resolution to the President of the United States, President of the U.S. Senate, Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, Secretary of the U.S. Department of Education and each member of the Kansas legislative delegation.
http://www.kslegislature.org/bills/2006/2006_1618.pdf
Title: S.C.R. 1618
Source: www.kslegislature.org
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| ME | Signed into law 05/2006 | P-12 | Relates to children with disabilities; consolidates and reorganizes the delivery of early childhood special education services; includes the child development services system to achieve efficiencies of cost and effectiveness of childhood special education programs; relates to a physical disability, mental condition or developmental delay; includes vision and hearing impairments. PL 662
http://www.mainelegislature.org/legis/bills/billtexts/ld177201-1.asp
Title: S.B. 689; LD 1772
Source: Maine Legislature
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| VT | Signed into law 05/2006 | P-12
Postsec. | Relates to coverage of disabled adult children and college students on medical leave; requires a health insurance plan that covers dependent children who are full-time college students beyond the age of 18 to include coverage for a dependent's medically necessary leave of absence from school for a period not to exceed 24 months; establishes a committee to study issues related to continuing health insurance eligibility for spouses following divorce and for young adult children. http://www.leg.state.vt.us/docs/legdoc.cfm?URL=/docs/2006/acts/ACT199.HTM
Title: S.B. 285
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| SD | Signed into law 02/2006 | P-12 | Revises state aid to special education; provides for a special education levy percentage per dollars of valuation.
http://legis.state.sd.us/sessions/2006/bills/HB1025enr.pdf
Title: H.B. 1025
Source: http://legis.state.sd.us
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| MO | Rule Adoption 08/2005 | P-12 | Establishes the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education is eligible to apply for and receive federal funds under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act Part B for the provision of special education and related services to eligible children and youth. MISSOURI REG 15900 (SN)
Title: 5 CSR 70-742.140
Source: StateNet
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| OR | Signed into law 08/2005 | P-12 | Establishes within the State School Fund a High Cost Disabilities Account. Each fiscal year, the department of education is to distribute moneys from the account to school districts as high cost disabilities grants. A school district may receive moneys from the account if it has a resident pupil with disabilities for whom the approved costs to the school district of providing special education and related services exceed $30,000. The department The department determines the approved costs incurred based on several criteria. http://www.leg.state.or.us/05reg/measpdf/hb2400.dir/hb2450.en.pdf
Title: H.B. 2450
Source: http://www.leg.state.or.us
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| IL | Signed into law 07/2005 | P-12 | Amends the Children with Disabilities Article of the School Code. Provides that the reimbursement of a school district for the amount of paid tuition of a child attending a non-public school or special education facility, public out-of-State school, or county special education facility is not authorized unless the State Superintendent finds that the school district is in substantial compliance with a Section of the Code concerning special educational facilities for children with disabilities (now, the school district must also certify to the State Superintendent of Education that the special education program of the district is unable to meet the needs of a child because of the child's disability in order for reimbursement to be authorized). http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/publicacts/94/PDF/094-0177.pdf
Title: H.B. 728
Source: http://www.ilga.gov/
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| MA | Re-enacted by the Senate 07/2005 | P-12 |
The secretary of health and human services shall, within three months of the effective date of this Act, apply to the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services for a home and community-based services waiver under section 1915(c) of the federal Social Security Act, 42 U.S.C.A. §301 et seq., to allow eligible children with autism spectrum disorder to receive waiver services to support said children in their homes and communities.
Title: H.B. 4177
Source: StateNet
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| NY | (H) AMENDED ON THIRD READING 06/2005 | P-12 | Relates to the use of certain federal funds for preschool grants for children with disabilities.
http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?bn=A02168&sh=t
Title: H.B. 2168
Source: StateNet
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| FL | Signed into law 05/2005 | P-12 | Deletes provisions authorizing AHCA to adopt emergency rules governing home & community-based services delivery system; provides Medicaid rate-setting process; revises Medicaid prescribed drug spending control program; directs AHCA to implement, & authorizes it to seek federal waivers for, program of all-inclusive care for children; establishes memory disorder clinic at FAU, etc. http://www.flsenate.gov/session/index.cfm?BI_Mode=ViewBillInfo&Mode=Bills&SubMenu=1&Year=2005&billnum=404
Title: S.B. 404
Source: www.flsenate.gov
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| AR | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | Directs department of education to identify school districts underperforming in the area of direct-service Medicaid billing and requires these districts to work with an education service cooperative for the provision of direct-service Medicaid billing services. http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2005/public/HB1259.pdf
Title: H.B. 1259
Source: www.arkleg.state.ar.us
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| AR | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | Provides that the department of education, a public school district, or an open-enrollment charter school is not liable for any educational costs or other related costs associated with the placement of a juvenile in an in-state or out-of-state residential or inpatient facility for any care and treatment, including psychiatric treatment, unless specified requirements are met. This section does not apply to a juvenile placed in an Arkansas juvenile detention facility.
http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2005/public/HB2558.pdf
Title: H.B. 2558
Source:
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| CO | Vetoed 04/2005 | P-12 | Adopts a comprehensive method of allocating the excess costs incurred in educating students with disabilities. Defines "selected special education option" as district other than the child's resident school district that special education student enrolls in, charter school or on-line program. Requires the resident school district to pay the selected special education option the tuition charge for the excess costs incurred in educating the student. Requires the state board to adopt rules on notifying the district of residence, types and amounts of allowable costs in excess of the per pupil funding for a student with a disability, and other program specifications.
Bill as sent to governor: http://www.leg.state.co.us/Clics2005a/csl.nsf/fsbillcont3/9D49F9D805B1D0AC87256F5E0067F825?Open&file=1255_enr.pdf
Fiscal note: http://www.leg.state.co.us/clics2005a/csl.nsf/fsbillcont3/9D49F9D805B1D0AC87256F5E0067F825?Open&file=HB1255_00.pdf
Title: H.B. 1255
Source: www.leg.state.co.us
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| HI | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | Authorizes an emergency appropriation ($11, 672, 564) for fiscal year 2004-2005 to pay for increases in costs due to an increase in students identified as having Autism Spectrum Disorder and for increased cost for school-based behavioral health services. http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/sessioncurrent/bills/sb778_.htm
Title: S.B. 778
Source: www.capitol.hawaii.gov
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| KS | Became law without governor's signature 04/2005 | P-12 | Creates a new formula for determining each district's special education allocation. Specifies that if the appropriation for special education and related services is insufficient to pay in full the amount of state aid each school district is entitled to receive for the school year, the state board must prorate the amount appropriated among all school districts.
Bill as enacted: http://www.kslegislature.org/legsrv-bills/showBill.do?id=38800
Fiscal note: http://www.kslegislature.org/legsrv-bills/showBill.do?id=35742
Supplemental note: http://www.kslegislature.org/legsrv-bills/showBill.do?id=37465
Title: H.B. 2247 (section 10-11)
Source: www.kslegislature.org
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| ND | Signed into law 03/2005 | P-12 | Provides for forwarding of special education per student payments to whichever program is providing the services to the student. The superintendent of public instruction is to forward any per student payments, payable on behalf of that student, directly to the school district of
residence for purposes of calculating per student payments in which the student receives such services. Applies additionally to programs such as summer schools. http://www.state.nd.us/lr/assembly/59-2005/bill-text/FAJT0200.pdf
Title: H.B. 1237
Source: http://www.state.nd.us
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| SD | Signed into law 03/2005 | P-12 | Includes legal costs as allowable expenditures from the special education fund. http://legis.state.sd.us/sessions/2005/bills/SB72enr.pdf
Title: S.B. 72
Source: http://legis.state.sd.us
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| LA | Emergency Rule Adoption 01/2005 | P-12 | Establishes emergency rules to promote Health and welfare of Medicaid recipients and to maintain access to Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnosis and Treatment Program (EPSDT) school-based services. Amends reimbursement methodology for services rendered by local education agencies. http://www.state.la.us/osr/emr/EMR011.htm
Title: LAC 50:XV.Chapter 71
Source: StateNet
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| MA | Rule Adoption 11/2004 | P-12 | Amends rules to implement changes in the process used to calculated special education reimbursements under the so called 'circuit breaker' program. States that under the new procedures, district reimbursements will be calculated based on the eligible costs incurred in the prior fiscal year, rather than the costs for the current fiscal year. MASSACHUSETTS REG 8414 (SN)
Title: 603 CMR 10.00
Source: StateNet
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| CA | Signed into law 09/2004 | P-12 | In provision that adjusts funding for pupils with exceptional needs based on an incidence multiplier for each special education
local plan area, continues the current special education incidence factor formula through 2004–05. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_2501-2550/ab_2525_bill_20040929_chaptered.pdf
Title: A.B. 2525 (multiple provisions)
Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov
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| CA | Signed into law 09/2004 | P-12 | Require the Superintendent of Public Instruction to conduct an investigation onsite at any time without prior notice when there is substantial reason to believe that there is an immediate danger to the health, safety, or welfare of a child, and to monitor the facilities, the educational
environment, and the quality of the educational program of an existing certified nonpublic, nonsectarian school or agency on a 3-year cycle. Also requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction, with respect to a nonpublic, nonsectarian school, to conduct an investigation, which is to include an unannounced onsite visit, if the Superintendent of Public Instruction receives evidence of a significant deficiency in the quality of educational services provided by the school or noncompliance with other specified requirements. Places additional requirements on a nonpublic, nonsectarian school regarding financial recordkeeping, submitting an annual budget and an annual audit, and documenting services and programs. Increases the base fees charged a nonpublic, nonsectarian school or agency when it applies for certification and when it updates its
application for annual review by the Superintendent of Public Instruction.
Provides that any educational funds received from a local educational agency for the educational costs of individuals with exceptional needs it has placed in nonpublic, nonsectarian schools are to be used solely for those purposes and not for the costs of a residential program.
Requires the State Department of Education to implement a program to integrate individuals with exceptional needs placed in nonpublic, nonsectarian schools into public schools.
Prohibits a licensed residential school for children with exceptional needs from requiring as a condition of residential placement that it provide the appropriate educational programs to those individuals through a nonpublic, nonsectarian school or agency owned, operated by, or associated with, a licensed children's institution. Provides that those services may only be provided if the special education local plan area determines that appropriate public alternative education programs are not available. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_1851-1900/ab_1858_bill_20040930_chaptered.pdf
Signing message: http://www.governor.ca.gov/govsite/pdf/press_release/AB_1858_sign.pdf
Title: A.B. 1858 (multiple provisions)
Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov
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| IL | Signed into law 08/2004 | P-12 | Amends the Children With Disabilities Article of the School Code. Provides that reimbursement for individual students with disabilities whose program costs exceed the per capita tuition rate shall be claimed beginning with costs encumbered for the 2004-2005 school year. Provides that base level funding computation shall be made only for certain fiscal years. http://www.legis.state.il.us/legislation/publicacts/fulltext.asp?Name=093-1022
Title: H.B. 4225
Source: Illinois Legislative Web site
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| LA | Signed into law 07/2004 | P-12 | Abolishes the Medicaid School-Based Administrative Claiming Trust Fund and provides for direct reimbursement of monies to public school boards for administrative claims. http://www.legis.state.la.us/leg_docs/04RS/CVT8/OUT/0000LVKU.PDF
Title: S.B. 493
Source: StateNet
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| WY | Emergency Rule Adoption 05/2004 | P-12 | Adopts rules pertaining to the requirements for adequate special education staffing levels. Adjusts the foundation program formula for special education funding. WYOMING REG 4487 (SN)
Title: Chapter 35
Source: StateNet
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| VA | Signed into law 04/2004 | P-12 | Relates to financial and legal responsibility for special education students with disabilities placed across jurisdictional lines by social services into private residential facility; relates to special education and foster care services.
Title: H.B. 1047
Source: StateNet
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| SD | Signed into law 02/2004 | P-12 | Revises the per student allocation for each disability level for the purposes of calculating the payment of state aid to special education.
Title: S.B. 48
Source: StateNet
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| IL | Bill dead - amendatory veto 11/2003 | P-12 | Amends the School Code. Relates to provisions concerning the special educational services block grant for a school district having a population exceeding 500,000 inhabitants. Removes the extraordinary and private tuition components of the special education program that the educational services block grant includes. http://www.legis.state.il.us/legislation/BillStatus.asp?DocNum=1180&GAID=3&DocTypeID=HB&LegId=1762&SessionID=3
Title: H.B. 1180
Source: Illinois Legislative Web site
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| IL | Total VEto stands 11/2003 | P-12 | Amends the Children with Disabilities Article of the School Code. Provides administrative expenses incurred by a responsible school district for children whose residence is other than a foster family home and who are educationally placed in a nonpublic school, nonpublic special education facility, public out-of-state school, or county special education facility are reimbursable. Provides these administrative expenses must be associated with supervisory and case coordination responsibilities specific to these eligible students. Provides for children from orphanages, children's homes, foster family homes, or state residential units. Effective immediately. http://www.legis.state.il.us/legislation/billstatus.asp?DocNum=192&GAID=3&DocTypeID=SB&LegID=1690&SessionID=3
Title: S.B. 192
Source: Illinois Legislative Web site
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| CA | Signed into law 09/2003 | P-12 | Requires if a public education agency observed the pupil in conducting a special education assessment, or if its assessment procedures make it permissible to have in-class observation of a pupil, an equivalent opportunity applies to an independent education assessment of the pupil in the pupil's current education placement and to observation of an educational placement and setting, proposed by the education agency, regardless of when assessment initiated. Requires the written notice to include that, if a parent or guardian proposes a publicly financed placement of the pupil in a nonpublic school, the public education agency shall have an opportunity to observe the proposed placement and the pupil in the proposed placement. Prohibit the observation or assessment of any other pupil who is not the subject of the observation without the consent of his or her parent or guardian. Requires the superintendent of public instruction to establish standards for the
training and degree of specialization of hearing officers and for quality control mechanisms to ensure fair hearings and accurate decisions. Authorizes the hearing officer to set a reasonable time limit for the hearing. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/sen/sb_0101-0150/sb_145_bill_20030912_chaptered.html
Title: S.B. 145
Source: California Legislative Web site
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| OR | Signed into law 08/2003 | P-12 | Creates High Cost Disabilities Account within State School Fund; directs Department of Education to distribute moneys in account to school districts as reimbursement for cost of providing special education and related services to resident pupils; limits reimbursement to actual cost above specified amount; modifies portion of local option property tax revenues not considered local revenues; allows fund diversion for schools on Indian tribal reservations.
Title: S.B. 550
Source: StateNet
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| NH | Signed into law 07/2003 | P-12 | Makes certain revisions to the special education laws; revises procedures for disbursement of catastrophic aid payments to school districts; revises definition of educationally disabled child for those 18 to 21 years old, if the child was identified as an educationally disabled child and received services in accordance with an individualized education plan but who left school prior to his or her incarceration, or was identified as an educationally disabled child but did not have an individualized education plan in his or her last educational institution. http://gencourt.state.nh.us/legislation/2003/SB0085.html
Title: S.B. 85
Source: StateNet
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| MD | Signed into law 05/2003 | P-12 | Requires each county board of education to annually pay to the Maryland School for the Blind an amount equal to the local share of the basic cost to support the cost of instructional programming. Requires every county board to include a student sent to the Maryland School for the Blind in the full-time equivalent enrollment used for calculating the required local funds appropriated. Requires the board of directors of the Maryland School for the Blind to report twice annually to every local board the number of blind children attending from the district and the name of every blind child charged to the county. Requires Baltimore to pay $100 twice a year for every child sent from the county to the school, and to levy on the county's assessable property $200 for every blind child sent to the Maryland School for the Blind from the county, with any year-end balance from the levy reverting to the county treasury, to be included in the next levy or paid immediately to the Maryland School for the Blind.
http://mlis.state.md.us/2003rs/bills/hb/hb0948e.rtf
Title: H.B. 948
Source: mlis.state.md.us
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| MT | Signed into law 03/2003 | P-12 | Authorizes a school district to use its tuition fund to pay the costs for a resident student who enrolls in a day-treatment program under an approved individualized education program at a private, nonsectarian school located in or outside of the student's resident district. http://data.opi.state.mt.us/bills/2003/billhtml/HB0135.htm
Title: H.B. 135
Source: StateNet
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| MT | Signed into law 03/2003 | P-12 | Exempts the Montana school for the deaf and blind from spending reductions. http://data.opi.state.mt.us/bills/2003/billhtml/HB0060.htm
Title: H.B. 60
Source: StateNet
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| MT | Signed into law 03/2003 | P-12 | Changes the fee for services collected from a public school or other responsible agency by the Montana School for the Deaf and Blind from a mandatory fee to an optional fee. http://data.opi.state.mt.us/bills/2003/billhtml/SB0043.htm
Title: S.B. 43
Source: StateNet
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| CA | Vetoed 09/2002 | P-12 | Requires the Department of Education to establish and administer a statewide program of grant funding to support special education local plan areas in conducting alternative dispute resolution programs for resolving special education disputes. Requires grant recipients to perform certain services related to alternative dispute resolution. States the intent of the Legislature, subject to federal funding, to make funding available for the program. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/01-02/bill/asm/ab_0151-0200/ab_164_bill_20020830_enrolled.html
Title: A.B. 164
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| FL | Signed into law 05/2002 | P-12 | Permits collaboration between Florida School for the Deaf and the Blind (FSDB) and local districts and boards. Allows FSDB to carry forward funds in the same way as universities. Permits FSDB district status for purposes of teacher certification. See bill section 101, page 258, line 26 ff: http://www.leg.state.fl.us/data/session/2002E/Senate/bills/billtext/pdf/s0020Eer.pdf
Title: S.B. 20E
Source: www.leg.state.fl.us
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| MD | Signed into law 05/2002 | P-12 | Requires that county board financial audit results be reported to state superintendent, county fiscal authority, and specified house and senate committees. Requries Management Oversight Panel to monitor implementation of audits' recommendations and coordination office to support Management Oversight Panel until the state superintendent determines that all the audits' recommendations have been addressed. Modifies the basic current expense formula to create a new foundation program for state education funding; creates a compensatory education funding program; creates a funding program for students with limited English; creates a special education funding program; establishes guaranteed tax base program. Extends funding for public school construction projects in Prince George's County and Baltimore City from 2003 to 2004. Establishes Task Force to Study Public School Facilities; requires task force to study specified issues in the realms of school construction. Terminates task force on December 31, 2002. Provides unrestricted grants of specified amounts in FY 03 to county boards. Requires Prince George's County Board to develop and submit comprehensive master plan and Superintendent to approve master plan before it receives its unrestricted grant. http://mlis.state.md.us/2002rs/bills/sb/sb0856e.rtf
Title: S.B. 856
Source: mlis.state.md.us
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| MD | Signed into law 05/2002 | P-12 | Defines "wraparound services." States that child in need of special education may be placed in appropriate nonpublic educational setting if state or local agency can document that child cannot attend a public school in the local system due to home circumstances or medical necessity. Requires that subject to availability of state funding, state must pay cost of services for child who qualifies for nonpublic placement and who requires wraparound services to receive special education. Requires that if local management board funds the placement of a child in a school outside the county or state of child's residence without consulting the local school system, local management board must certify and pay the cost of the student's daily or other reasonable transportation to school. http://mlis.state.md.us/2002rs/bills/hb/hb1221t.rtf
Title: H.B. 1221
Source: mlis.state.md.us
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| AL | Signed into law 04/2002 | P-12 | Appropriates a certain amount from the Education Trust Fund to the State Board of Education for the support and maintenance of special programs, schools, and services for special education; provides that the appropriation is subject to certain provisions of the Code of Alabama 1975; requires an operations plan and an audited financial prior to the release of funds. http://alisdb.legislature.state.al.us/acas/searchableinstruments/2002rs/bills/hb145.htm
Title: H.B. 145
Source: alisdb.legislature.state.al.us
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| NH | Signed into law 04/2002 | P-12 | Relates to liability for educational expenses incurred during placement of any resident or patient, who is capable of being benefited by instruction and who is between 3 and 21 years of age, in certain Department of Health and Human Services facilities; provides for payment by school district of residence.
Title: H.B. 1443
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| MN | Filed with Secretary of State. Chapter No. 03/2002 | P-12 | Relates to human services; modifies consent requirements for billing medical assistance and Minnesota Care for covered individual education plan services; modifies individualized family service plan definition; modifies certain mediation procedures; modifies revenue allocation provisions for special education; modifies coverage for special education services to include physical therapy and nursing services and health assessments.
Title: S.B. 2550
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| VA | Signed into law 03/2002 | P-12 | Requires the Department of Medical Assistance Services to reimburse school divisions providing health-related services to special education students as participating providers in the Virginia Medicaid program for transportation services, on those days when the special education student is scheduled to receive health-related services at a site other than the school.
Title: S.B. 465
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| CA | Signed into law 08/2001 | P-12 | Chapter No.215. Deletes the prohibition against reimbursement by the State for special education and related services provided by a nonpublic, nonsectarian school by an individual who is or was an employee of a contracting local educational entity within the last 365 days, but would not delete the prohibition as it applies to nonpublic, nonsectarian agencies.
Title: A.B. 992
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| CA | Signed into law 08/2001 | P-12 | Chapter No.203, Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to perform specified computations with respect to special education local planning areas and affected pupils and to permanently increase the amount per unit of average daily attendance for those areas. States that, commencing with the 2001-02 fiscal year to the 2010-11 fiscal year, a specific amount of funds shall be appropriated, once each fiscal year, for allocation to school districts pursuant to a prescribed calculation.
Title: S.B. 982
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| OR | Signed into law 07/2001 | P-12 | Establishes a task force on special education and school finance; charges said task force with studying and delivery of financing of instruction for students with disabilities receiving special education and related services.
Title: H.B. 2598
Source: http://www.leg.state.or.us/01reg/measures/hb2500.dir/hb2598.en.html
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| NJ | Signed into law 06/2001 | P-12 | Provides that State funds to provide special education and related services to students enrolled in nonpublic schools may not be included by a school district in the calculation of the minimum funding requirements for nonpublic school students under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), and that nonpublic school students must receive their proportionate share of Federal funds made available through IDEA.
Title: S.B. 2167
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| TN | Became law without governor's signature 06/2001 | P-12 | Relates to Congress; urges fully funding federal commitment to Individual with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA).
Title: S.J.R. 239
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| NE | Signed into law 05/2001 | P-12 | Section 37 of LB 797 allows Class I school districts to amend the general fund budget of expenditures after October 15th of each year for special education expenditures, special grant funds received or for current fiscal year expenditures that board deems essential that could not reasonably have been anticipated at the time the budget was adopted. These amendments can be done without the approval of the school boards of the high school districts or districts with which the Class I is affiliated. Approval of budget amendments is now required by the high school or affiliated district boards. This change may result in increased spending by a Class I school district, which may result in a minimal increase in state aid paid in the future (from Fiscal Note).
Title: LB 797
Source: Nebraska Legislative Web Site
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| VT | Signed into law 05/2001 | P-12 | Relates to special education services cost sharing; states the Commissioner of Education and the Secretary of Human Services shall present to the House and Senate committees on education and health and welfare a draft of an agreement to shift a portion of special education costs to the Agency of Human Services starting in 2003; states the agreement shall identify services paid for by school districts and those paid for by human services; provides for revision and presentation.
Title: H.B. 499
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| MD | Signed into law 04/2001 | P-12 | Alters the conditions under which a county board is not required to reimburse a parent or guardian for certain tuition or related costs for enrollment of a student with a disability in a nonpublic school; requires the parent of a child with a disability to give certain notice under certain circumstances; authorizes a hearing officer or court to require reimbursement in certain cases.
Title: H.B. 248
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| MN | Signed into law 04/2001 | P-12 | , Memorializes the President and Congress to carry through their pledge to fund 40 percent of special education costs.
Title: S.B. 647
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| MT | Signed into law 04/2001 | P-12 | Amends the definition of base aid to include a percentage of the special education allowable cost payment; amends definition of maximum general fund budget to increase the special education allowable cost payment component.
Title: S.B. 94
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| NM | Vetoed 04/2001 | P-12 | Senate Bill 432 amends the Public School Code as follows: Creates an Office of Medicaid in the Schools in the state department. Creates a Medicaid in the Schools Advisory Council. Transfers Personnel, budgets funds, appropriations, records, contracts, equipment and other property of the Human Services Department (HSD) used to administer the Medicaid in the Schools Program to the State department.
Title: S.B. 432
Source: New Mexico Legislative Web Site
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| MT | Signed into law 03/2001 | P-12 | Revises the special education funding formula to establish fixed limits for distribution of the state's total special education allocation; limiting distribution of the total allocation to 52.5 percent for instructional block grants, 25 percent for reimbursement of districts whose special education costs exceed the related services block grant plus the required district match, 17.5 percent to related services block grants, and 5 percent for special education cooperative and joint board administration and travel; eliminating the requirement to distribute to districts pro rata shares of available special education appropriations when total special education costs exceed legislative appropriations; amending sections 20-7-431 and 20-9-321, MCA; and providing an effective data and an applicability date.
Title: H.B. 160
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| OR | Signed into law 03/2001 | P-12 | Directs Department of Education to recover costs of certain special education programs from State School Fund.
Title: S.B. 253
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| SD | Signed into law 03/2001 | P-12 | Expands the uses of the Special Education Extraordinary Cost Fund.
Title: S.B. 60
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| SD | Signed into law 02/2001 | P-12 | Revises school district residency for the purposes of special education; revises the distribution of state aid to special education.
Title: S.B. 145
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| CA | Vetoed 09/2000 | P-12 | Relates to existing law which requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to calculate allocations to special education local plan areas based on the average daily attendance reported for the special education local plan area for a certain fiscal year in order to mitigate the effects of any declining enrollment. Prohibits the funding reduction from being applied to any special education local plan area determined to be a necessary, small special education local plan.
Title: A.B. 2055
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| CA | Signed into law 08/2000 | P-12 | Authorizes the Superintendent of Public Instruction to withhold, in whole or in part, state funds or federal funds allocated under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act from a district, special education local plan area or county office after reasonable notice and opportunity for a hearing if the superintendent makes certain findings regarding noncompliance with state and federal law on special education.
Title: S.B. 1843
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| MN | Signed by governor 05/2000 | P-12 | Decreases a district's threshold to qualify for excess cost aid from 4.4 percent to 4.36 percent of general education revenue, beginning in FY 2001. Increase the appropriation for excess cost aid from $60,498,000 to $66,032,000 in fiscal year 2000 and from $79,405,000 to $89,137,000 in fiscal year 2001. Most of the change in these appropriations is to adjust for change in the estimated cost of fully funding the excess cost formula, based on new data becoming available between the end of the 1999 legislative session and the February 2000 budget forecast. Changes in the general education formula and the threshold to qualify for excess cost aid account for only a small portion of the change. The one-time special education cross-subsidy revenue is excluded from the calculation of excess cost aid.
Title: H.B. 3800
Source: Department of Children, Families and Learning
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| VT | Signed into law 05/2000 | P-12 | Clarifies the definition of special education services; permits the cost of special education services to be a factor in considering how to provide appropriate services; provides for teacher training; provides for individual education plans; provides for state aid to districts to assist with special education costs.
More details:
This Act focuses on students in the entire educational system, not just the special education system, and addresses containment of special education costs while at the same time continuing to deliver appropriate services that meet the needs of Vermont students. It includes, among other items, the following provisions:
Assignment of responsibility for developing and maintaining the educational support system to either the superintendent or principal.
Requirement for an annual report to the Commissioner of Education on the status of each school's educational support system and a description and justification of how Medicaid funds were used.
Amendment to the definition in state statute of "special education" to clarify that Vermont requires no more in services than is required under federal law.
Specification of the conditions under which IEP teams can take costs into consideration when selecting services for a student with disabilities.
Expansion of the Commissioner of Education's annual report on special education costs to include the rate of growth or decrease in costs, outcomes for students, availability of special education staff, consistency of implementation statewide, status of educational support systems.
Development and implementation by the Commissioner of Education of a two-year plan to contain special education costs while continuing to meet the needs of all Vermont students by increasing the capacity of general education to meet the needs of students outside of special education, using cost-effective practices and operating special education programs across the state consistently and within federal requirements. The plan includes:
Formation of a partnership with higher education to improve teacher preparation and professional development.
Strengthening the educational support systems around the state by focusing on preschool through fourth grade literacy, and prevention and intervention for students with emotional and behavioral difficulties.
Support for special education teachers and administrators and help in using cost-effective practices by working with higher education to increase the availability of special education administrators, teachers and related services providers; providing training opportunities for teachers and para-professionals; providing legal support, information and training to avoid conflict and assist in making cost-effective legal and procedural decisions; employing consultants with expertise in particular disability areas; providing guidance in the completion of annual service plans; and developing, with the University of Vermont, a decision-making model for IEP teams to use.
Efforts to make special education programs consistently-implemented and cost-effective statewide by studying IEPs in the most common disability areas and providing schools data on the range of costs associated therewith; increasing the capacity to audit and monitor special education programs statewide; training to school district leaders on cost-effective practices; and more clearly defining eligibility rules.
Development of recommendations to change the special education funding formula to make it more sustainable while at the same time not simply shifting costs to local taxpayers.
Drafting and submittal of annual reports to the legislature on progress made toward strengthening the educational support system, containing special education costs, and improving outcomes for students with disabilities.
Assisting school districts with unusual or unexpected costs by allocation of up to two percent of appropriations for special education expenditures assuming the districts requesting the funds have submitted Medicaid bills for reimbursement for at least 85 percent of eligible students.
Establishment of statewide targets in fiscal years 2002, 2003 and 2004 for limiting increases in total special education expenditures. Special education appropriations shall be based on these targets.
Repeal of the caps on special education expenditures enacted as part of Act 71 in order to allow the above-mentioned plan time to work.
Conduct of a study by the Secretary of Administration and the Joint Fiscal Office, along with a variety of others, on how interagency services could assist students with disabilities under the age of twenty-two.
Although not expressly part of this Act, the Appropriations Act contains significant funding to carry out the provisions of the above-mentioned plan.
Title: H.B. 629
Source: http://www.state.vt.us/educ/legupdate.htm
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| NE | Signed into law 04/2000 | P-12 | This bill clarifies several aspects of how students, spacificly Special Ed. students, are to be treated in the state. It clarifies that special ed. students are "children from birth to the age twenty-one years". The bill also clarifies that schools are required to provide an education to children who are homeless. And it further defines that if a student's resident district is unable to provide special education services then they must contract with a non-resident district to provide those services.
Title: L.B. 1243
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| SD | Signed into law 03/2000 | P-12 | The legislation deals with the transfer of a special education student from a resident district to a nonresident district. Under previous law the resident district was held responsible for the students education, under the new law the nonresident district becomes responsible for the students education.
Title: H.B. 1058
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| SD | Signed into law 03/2000 | P-12 | Allows certain children to be included as a level 2, 3, 4, or 5 disability for the purpose of calculating special education state aid.
Title: S.B. 23
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| UT | Signed into law 03/2000 | P-12 | Relates to individuals with disabilities; provides a specified appropriation to the State Office of Rehabilitation to purchase assistive technology devices and services under rules made by the State Board of Education.
Title: S.B. 131
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| KY | Signed into law 02/2000 | P-12 | Relates to the Federal Individuals with Disabilities Education Act; provides that rights for infants, toddlers, and parents served by the State Early Intervention System are mandated by participation in Part C of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act; deletes limitation to available funding.
Title: H.B. 51
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| NH | Signed into law 11/1999 | P-12 | Authorizes a school district to expend funds reflecting the total catastrophic special education costs for pupils in the district; provides that certain unexpected catastrophic special education expenses which could not be identified or anticipated prior to the adoption of the school district budget shall be exempt from the provisions of the municipal budget laws.
Title: H.B. 577
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| CA | Vetoed 10/1999 | P-12 | Provides that for purposes of calculating the growth adjustment for necessary small special education local plan areas, if the amount of funding per unit of attendance computed for the prior fiscal year is greater than the statewide target amount per unit for special education local plan areas, the amount of funding per unit is deemed to be the statewide target amount for special education local plan areas.
Title: A.B. 953
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| CA | Vetoed 10/1999 | P-12 | Relates to existing law which sets forth a method of computing the amount of property tax revenues to be allocated to special education programs; provides that if the amount computed pursuant to the formula exceeds the total amount necessary for the county superintendent of the schools to operate special education programs, the county superintendent shall allocate the excess amount to special education local plan areas on the basis of the units of average daily attendance.
Title: A.B. 395
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| NE | Signed into law 07/1999 | P-12 | Creates the Hardship Fund, which allows districts in certain circumstances of financial distress to borrow money from the fund. Fund consists of money appropriated, repayments, and interest paid. Qualifying occurrences are: One or more new special education students or one or more new disabling conditions causing special education expenditures to increase by 10% or more, but not less than 3 times the cost grouping cost per student in the standard cost grouping; opening of a group home causing expenditures to increase by 10% or more; clerical errors by public officials, other than any person employed by or serving on the school board; and several other fiscal conditions concerning calculation of aid, budgeted reserves, current levy.
Title: L.B. 314
Source: Nebraska Legislature
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| NH | Signed into law 07/1999 | P-12 | Requires that a town disclose in its annual budget the amount of any reimbursements received to offset special education expenditures, including reimbursements for catastrophic special education expenditures.
Title: S.B. 129
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| OR | Signed into law 07/1999 | P-12 | Directs Department of Education to recover amounts billed for children who are in certain special education programs in excess of county school funds from State School Fund.
Title: H.B. 3365
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| VT | Signed into law 06/1999 | P-12 | Relates to limits to aid for special education and the granting thereof; provides for average daily attendance funding; provides for payments in lieu of taxes; relates to property tax sources of funding for public education; relates to personal and real property taxation.
Title: H.B. 548
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| MD | Signed into law 05/1999 | P-12 | Establishes that disabled applicants may use a Delegate Scholarship at Out-of -State institutions that make special provisions which are not available at in-state institutions for disabled students.
Title: H.B. 1155
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| NC | Signed into law 05/1999 | P-12 | Provides for State funding to serve students receiving local school services under an individual education plan from another state while a determination is being made as to the student's eligibility as a child with special needs; directs the State Board of Education to study the issue of school transportation for children with special needs and report to the Joint Legislative Oversight Committee.
Title: S.B. 1075
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| SD | Signed into law 03/1999 | P-12 | Allows for the transfer of money from a school district's special education fund to its general fund under certain circumstances.
Title: H.B. 1184
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| IN | Signed into law 01/1999 | P-12 | Allows a school corporation to enter into and agreement to pay transfer tuition to a nonprofit corporation that educates children who have been placed in a health care facility or child care facility under certain circumstances; provides that placement must be recommended by a physician.
Title: H.B. 1902
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| SD | Signed into law 01/1999 | P-12 | Revises the state aid for special education funding formula (Adds new Section 13-37-37). Defines levels of disabilities and attaches allocations per each. Sets formula. Level one = mild disability. Level two = mental retardation or emotional disorder. Level three = hearing impairment, deafness, visual impairment, deaf-blindness, orthopedic impairment, or traumatic brain injury. Level four = autism. Level five = multiple disabilities. Adds a number of new sections addressing computation for state aid, availability of records (to Dept. of Education and Cultural Affairs) and overreporting (sanctions). Another new section specifies formula for transition period from school fiscal year 2000 through fiscal year 2003. Also adds section to set aside money to assist school districts with legal matters relating to special education, to employ personnel to audit for compliance, maintain state protocols to assist districts in developing individualized education plans, or to purchase assistive technology.
Title: H.B. 1178
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| DE | Died 10/1998 | P-12 | Places funding responsibility for private-placement financial aid for "complex and rare" handicapped persons aged 4 through 20 entirely with the State, thereby eliminating any contribution by the local school district for such placement.
Title: H.B. 275
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| DE | Signed into law 07/1998 | P-12 | Reduces class sizes in core academic subjects; increases teaching fund to local school districts; requires the Department of Education to submit revised regulations regarding the procedures and definitions used to determine whether students are classified as learning disabled, emotionally mentally handicapped, or seriously emotionally disturbed.
Title: H.B. 758
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| SD | Signed into law 03/1998 | P-12 | Revises the funding of special education.
Title: S.B. 120 Special Education
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| SD | Signed into law 03/1998 | P-12 | Limits the amount of state aid to special education to local school districts.
Title: H.B. 1133
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| AL | Passed 09/1997 | P-12 | Makes and appropriation of $ 4,086,674 from the Education Trust Fund to the State Board of Education for the support and maintenance of special programs for special education for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1998; requires an operations plan and audited fonancial statement prior to release of any funds.
Title: H.B. 19 Special Education Programs
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| CT | Signed into law 06/1997 | P-12 | Allows for placement in private facilities even if a public arrangement is available when the private program meets criteria and is less costly than the public arrangement.
Title: H.B. 6705
Source: Lexis-Nexis
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| VT | Signed into law 06/1997 | P-12 | For FY 1999 the state will reimburse school districts for 60% of all special education expenditures. The mainstream block grant will increase, the extraordinary deductible will be $50,000.00, and intensive funding will be calculated as a flat percentage of remaining allowable costs. The Department of Education is given a Fiscal Reviewer who will review spending in districts with high special education costs and try to find ways to help them decrease this expense. The Reviewer will also study low spending districts to determine if they use cost-effective strategies that could be replicated in other districts. Current law is repealed on July 1, 1999. The Commissioner of Education will recommend a new formula.
Title: H.B. 527 Special Education
Source: Vermont Legislative Council
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| VT | Signed into law 05/1996 | P-12 | Proposes to reauthorize portions of Act 230 which includes VT's special education funding formula. Revises the system of state aid for provision of educational services to children with disabilities and children in need of support. Requires that 1% of the appropriation for provision of educational services be used to increase regional capacity to meet needs of students wtih emotional behavior problems. Appropriates equal amount to train teachers.
Title: H.B. 606 State aid to children with disabilities
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| ID | Signed into law 03/1996 | P-12 | Reallocates existing state general funds now used to reimburse school districts educating students with disabilities in order to achieve greater flexibility.
Title: H.B. 606 Reallocation of Existing State Funds
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| VA | Signed into law 03/1996 | P-12 | Requires reimbursement from the state pool of funds for reasonable tuition costs and charges for special education placements in private, nonsectarian schools, agencies, or institutions, when a child's individualized education program calls for such placement; allows the Board of Education to reimburse local school boards for special education placement from such funds as may be appropriated for that purpose.
Title: S.B. 340 Reimbursement from State for Special Education Costs
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| GA | Signed into law 02/1996 | P-12 | (Effective: 04/15/95) Makes special education students eligible for same funding whether mainstreamed or in special education classes.
Title: H.B. 500 Same Funding for Special Education Students
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| SD | Signed into law 02/1996 | P-12 | (Effective: 02/21/96) Provides that certain costs are included as extraordinary special education costs.
Title: H.B. 1158 Costs of Special Education
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| SD | Died 01/1996 | P-12 | Provides for a special education voucher for parents or guardians of certain students.
Title: H.B. 1318 Special Education Voucher
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| CA | Signed into law 10/1995 | P-12 | Distributing $35 million for educational technology needs in public schools. It will allocate $17.5 million from fine money received by the Public Utilities Commission to the Education Technology Trust Fund; $12.5 going to technology implementation grants and $5.2 million to staff development grants. As one of its purposes, providing access to education technology to every learner, including a learner with exceptional needs.
Title: A.B. 1302 Technology
Source: Sacramento Education Legislative Letter, Association of CA School Administrators, 10/2/95
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| CA | Signed into law 10/1995 | P-12 | (Effective: 01/01/96) S.B. 181 redefines the terms "low incidence disability" as it relates to vision impairments, and "specific learning disability." The intent of this bill is to clarify the definitions in order to safeguard funds intended for the blind from being appropriated into other programs for the visually impaired.
Title: S.B. 181 Special Education
Source: Sacramento Education Legislative Letter, Association of CA School Administrators, 10/30/95
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| CT | Signed into law 07/1995 | P-12 | (Effective: 07/01/95) This act shifts the responsibility for paying for the special education costs of children placed in temporary residential placements by the Department of Children and Families (DCF) when the school district in which the children (so called "no nexus" children) would otherwise be attending school cannot be identified. The responsibility is shifted from the towns in which the children are placed to the towns in which they last attended school or lived when they were removed from their homes and, after one year, to DCF.
Title: PA 95-237, sH.B. 5548 Special Education Due Process and the Cost of Special Education
Source: Connecticut General Assembly, 1995 Legislation
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| NE | Signed into law 07/1995 | P-12 | The Legislature voted to limit state support for speical education to an increase of 2.5 - 3%. A school district's special education expenditures are reimbursed by the state. These costs have been increasing an average of 10% annually. (Nebraska Rural Action 7/95)
Title: Capping Special Education Support
Source: Center for Rural Affairs
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| IN | Signed into law 06/1995 | P-12 | Between 1979 and 1995, additional state funding for students with disabilities was distributed by counting the number of students who received services in each of 13 different categories and multiplying that number by a factor that was intended to represent the extra cost of providing such services. In 1996-97, the stae's approach to special education will change considerably: Children with disabilities will be counted in one of two categories according to the extent of their disabilities: severe or mild/moderate. Unlike in the past, children may not be counted in more than one category. In 1996, school corporations will receive $6,000 ($7,000 in 1997) for each severely disabled child and $1,850 ($1,900 in 1997) for each mildly/moderately disabled child. This change increases the funding available for educating the most severely disabled children and is hoped to reduce the extent and specificity to which the state funding system causes children to be labeled on the basis of their disability. However, the law specifies exactly which of the old disability categories are included in the two new categories. As a result, it still may be necessary for school corporations to classify children according to the old categories in order to count them in the new categories. Children who receive special services for communication disorders or because they are homebound are counted in two additional categories, regardless of whether they are classified as disabled or not. Here, children who receive both types of services may be counted in each category. In 1996, school corporations receive $410 ($450 in 1997) for each child counted as receiving either of these types of services.
Title: Special Education Funding
Source: Indiana Education Policy Center, Policy News & Notes Summer1995
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| CT | Signed into law 05/1995 | P-12 | A new education equalization formula allows the state to avoid what would have been a mandated $300 million increase in state funding next year. The act folds special education funds into the formula and eliminates the separate special education reimbursement grants; reduces the required foundation level of spending; employs a new definition of town wealth that tends to provide more aid then previously to towns with smaller size families and large elderly populations; adds supplemental grants based on student economic and education need and on town density; eliminates hold harmless grants to wealthy towns but caps the percentage of aid decrease they must absorb in a year; caps the percentage of aid increase in any year; and gives added weight to student enrollment for students whose English proficiency is limited, in addition to economic and educational need. It also creates a new grant for towns that demonstrate improvement in student achievement.
Title: Funding Formula
Source: Office of Legislative Research
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| MT | Died 05/1995 | P-12 | The legislature rejected OPI's request to increase special education funding by $3.6 million for 1995-96 and by $5.1 million for 1996-97. As a result, special education funding remains frozen at the 1989 level of $67 million/biennium.
Title: Special Education Funding Remains Frozen
Source: Montana Office of Public Instruction, Montana Schools
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| ND | Signed into law 05/1995 | P-12 | Finance law changes special education funding from a system of reimbursing for expenses incurred to one of lump-sum payments to districts based on enrollment.
Title: North Dakota Legislative Update 5/17/95
Source: Education Week 5/17/95, p. 14
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| NM | Signed into law 05/1995 | P-12 | The provisions of the Education Appropriation Act allow school districts the flexibility to determine local priorities and make decisions necessary to improve student performance. The process allows for better accountability at all levels; it gives the State Department of Education the opportunity to better administer public education policy; it allows school districts to demonstrate how education dollars are being spent to improve student performance; and it allows the Legislature to evaluate how all components of the public school system are working. The Education Appropriation Act also included the following: a requirement that the State Department of Education redefine special education related services to include evaluation in order to determine funding; an appropriation of $3.2 million to the State Department of Education to fund special projects (education programs designed to improve student achievement or provide professional development activities) to include, among others, public service learning initiatives, professional development activities, and school to work initiatives; an appropriation of $225,000 to be distributed to school districts operating year round schools as well as districts operating high schools in double sessions.
Title: Education Appropriation Act
Source: Legislative Education Study Committee
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| SD | Signed into law 05/1995 | P-12 | Revised the state's formula for aid to special education.
Title: H.B. 1354
Source: Legislative Research Council
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| ND | Signed into law 04/1995 | P-12 | Relates to per student payments for special education. Relates to school district liability for special needs students.
Title: S.B. 2063 - Special Education Funding
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| AL | Signed into law 05/1994 | P-12 | (Effective: 05/28/94) Makes an appropriation of $2,726,269 to fund 41 special schools for special education. (Legislative Link, Regualar Legislative Session - 1994)
Title: H 200 (Act 94-682) Appropriation for Special Education
Source: Alabama State Department of Education, Division of Legislative Services
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| Special Education--Inclusion (Mainstreaming) |
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| Special Education--Placement |
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| Special Education--Transition |
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| Special Populations--Corrections Education |
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| Special Populations--Foster Care |
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| Special Populations--Gifted and Talented |
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| Special Populations--Homeless Education |
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| Special Populations--Immigrant Education |
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| Special Populations--Migrant Education |
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| Special Populations--Military |
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| Standards |
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| Standards--Common Core State Standards |
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| Standards--Implementation |
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| State Comparisons/Statistics |
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| State Longitudinal Data Systems |
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| State Policymaking |
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| State Policymaking--Ballot Questions |
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| State Policymaking--Constitutional Clauses |
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| State Policymaking--Politics |
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| State Policymaking--Task Forces/Commissions |
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| STEM |
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| Student Achievement |
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| Student Achievement--Closing the Achievement Gap |
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| Student Achievement--State Trends |
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| Student Supports |
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| Student Supports--Counseling/Guidance |
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| Student Supports--Mentoring/Tutoring |
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| Student Supports--Remediation |
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| Student Surveys |
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| Students |
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| Students--Athletics/Extracurricular Activities |
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| Students--Employment |
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| Students--Incentives |
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| Students--K-12 Exchange Students |
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| Students--Mobility |
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| Students--Records/Rights |
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| Teaching Quality |
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| Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure |
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| Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure--Alternative |
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| Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure--Assignment |
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| Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure--Highly Qualified Teachers |
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| Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure--Natl. Bd. for Prof. Teach. Stds. |
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| Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure--Special Education |
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| Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure--State Prof. Standards Bds. |
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| Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure--Substitute Teachers |
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| Teaching Quality--Compensation and Diversified Pay |
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| Teaching Quality--Compensation and Diversified Pay--Pay-for-Performance |
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| Teaching Quality--Compensation and Diversified Pay--Retirement/Benefits |
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| Teaching Quality--Evaluation and Effectiveness |
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| Teaching Quality--Induction Programs and Mentoring |
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| Teaching Quality--Paraprofessionals |
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| Teaching Quality--Preparation |
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| Teaching Quality--Professional Development |
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| Teaching Quality--Recruitment and Retention |
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| Teaching Quality--Recruitment and Retention--At-Risk Schools |
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| Teaching Quality--Recruitment and Retention--High-Needs Subjects |
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| Teaching Quality--Reduction in Force |
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| Teaching Quality--Teacher Attitudes |
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| Teaching Quality--Teacher Contracts (Not Tenure) |
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| Teaching Quality--Teacher Rights |
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| Teaching Quality--Tenure or Continuing Contract |
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| Teaching Quality--Unions/Collective Bargaining |
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| Teaching Quality--Unions/Collective Bargaining--Strikes |
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| Teaching Quality--Working Conditions |
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| Technology |
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| Technology--Computer Skills |
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| Technology--Devices/Software/Hardware |
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| Technology--Equitable Access |
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| Technology--Funding Issues |
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| Technology--Internet Safety |
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| Technology--Research/Evaluation |
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| Technology--Teacher/Faculty Training |
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| Textbooks and Open Source |
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| Urban |
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| Urban--Change/Improvements |
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| Urban--Governance |
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| Whole-School Reform Models |
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| Whole Child |
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