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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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| PA | Signed into law 07/2012 | P-12 | Modifies tax code to provide the means for low- and moderate-income students (185% of poverty) who reside in the attendance boundary of a low-achieving school, to apply for an opportunity scholarship to attend a participating public or private school. Funds may not be used to attend a career and technology center or charter schools (brick-and-mortar or cyber). Schools approved to receive students must charge scholarship students no more than their set tuition rate, and if necessary, must initiate a lottery to determine enrollment.
Businesses that donate to opportunity scholarship organizations are eligible for a tax credit through the program. Defines and establishes parameters for a "scholarship organization." Requires reports from such organizations that include total number of applications received, total and average amounts of scholarships awarded, total number of applications processed and amounts of application fees charged -- either per application or in the aggregate through a third-party processor; and tax status. For 2012-2013, a business tax credit cannot exceed $400,000 annually per firm; for 2013-2014 and thereafter, the tax credit cannot exceed $750,000 annually per business firm. Requires the Department of Revenue to grant a tax credit of up to 90% of the total amount contributed if the business provides a written commitment to provide the scholarship organization with the same amount of contribution for two consecutive tax years. Defines a "pass-through" entity (pg. 91).
Sets eligibility requirements for scholarship applicants, including 185% of the Federal poverty level. Excludes home schooled students and prohibits scholarships for students who have been recruited for athletic purposes. Maximum scholarship awards: $8,500 except for a student with a disability ($15,000). Grant amounts for students who attend or will attend a nonpublic school cannot exceed the amount of the per pupil subsidy of the school district of residence. Allows districts to establish a program of tuition grants to provide for education of students who reside within the district and attend or will attend a public or nonpublic school on a tuition-paying basis. A student receiving a grant to attend a public school is counted in average daily membership for purposes of funding, except when a student attends a public school outside the school district (included in the ADM of the school district the student attends). Requires that transportation be provided and reimbursed. Participating schools are not required to accept a student if it does not offer appropriate programs or is not structured or equipped with the necessary facilities to meet the special needs of the recipient.
Provides the Pennsylvania Supreme Court with exclusive and original jurisdiction to hear any challenge or to render a declaratory judgment concerning constitutionality.
http://www.legis.state.pa.us/CFDOCS/Legis/PN/Public/btCheck.cfm?txtType=PDF&sessYr=2011&sessInd=0&billBody=H&billTyp=B&billNbr=0761&pn=3894
Title: H.B. 0761
Source: http://www.legis.state.pa.us/
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| OH | Signed into law 06/2012 | P-12 | Extends eligibility for an EdChoice Scholarship to a student outside Cleveland who is enrolled in a nonpublic school at the time the state board grants the school a charter under 3301.16 (http://codes.ohio.gov/orc/3301.16) and the school meets the eligibility requirements established in 3310.031. Establishes section 3310.031. Directs the state board to establish procedures for granting educational choice scholarships to eligible students attending a nonpublic school at the time the state board grants the school a charter under section 3301.16. Provides a student in a nonpublic school granted a charter is eligible for an EdChoice Scholarship if any of enumerated criteria apply. In making EdChoice scholarship payments, directs the department, in the case of certain students living outside the district in which the student's parent resides, to deduct the payments from the district that includes the student in its average daily membership. Amends provisions related to reporting of student performance data for EdChoice scholarship students. Requires data to be disaggregated by grade level (formerly was "age").
Pages 68-76 of 592: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText129/129_SB_316_EN_Y.pdf
Title: S.B. 316 - Educational Choice (EdChoice) Scholarship Pilot Program
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us
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| OH | Signed into law 06/2012 | P-12 | Requires Cleveland pilot project scholarship (voucher) students' performance data to be disaggregated, among other factors, by grade level (previously required disaggregation by "age"). Page 113 of 592: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText129/129_SB_316_EN_Y.pdf
Title: S.B. 316 - Cleveland Voucher Program
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us
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| OH | Signed into law 06/2012 | P-12 | Each time a child's district completes evaluation for a child with a disability or undertakes the development, review, or revision of the child's IEP, requires the district to notify the child's parent about both the autism scholarship program and the Jon Peterson special needs scholarship program. Requires the notice to include specified contact information.
Pages 228-229 of 592: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText129/129_SB_316_EN_Y.pdf
Title: S.B. 316 - Autism Scholarship and Jon Peterson Special Needs Scholarship Programs
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us
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| OH | Signed into law 06/2012 | P-12 | Directs the department to conduct a second Educational Choice Scholarship application period for the 2012-2013 school year to award scholarships to eligible students who were enrolled in a nonpublic school in the 2011-2012 school year that was granted a charter by the state board during the 2011-2012 school year. Provides that a scholarship awarded during this second application period must be used in the 2012-2013 school year only to pay tuition at the nonpublic school in which the eligible student was enrolled in the 2011-2012 school year. Page 396 of 401: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText129/129_SB_316_EN_N.pdf
Title: S.B. 316 - EdChoice Vouchers in 2012-13
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us
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| AZ | Signed into law 05/2012 | P-12 | Requires that a parent or guardian sign a contract to participate in an Arizona Empowerment Scholarship Account if he/she does not plan to enroll the child in a public, private or charter school or a homeschool; Broadens the definition of a qualified student beyond students with disabilities to include a student (1) attending a school or district assigned a "D" or "F" grade, (2) a previous recipient of an ESA or Arizona scholarship for pupils with disabilities, (3) a child of a parent or guardian who is a U.S. Armed Forces member on active duty, (4) certain current or former wards of the juvenile court; Prohibits student from concurrently accepting a scholarship from a school tuition organization and an empowerment scholarship account. Includes (1) educational therapies/services expenses incurred by licensed paraprofessionals or educational aides and (2) services provided by a public school, including individual classes and extracurricular programs, as allowable expenditures of ESA funds; Specifies that a signed ESA agreement does not relieve the previously attended school district or charter school from the obligation to evaluate children for placement in special education programs; Prohibits the expenditure of ESA monies on computers, transportation expenses and consumable educational supplies; Prohibits the parents of qualified students from filing an affidavit of intent to homeschool, in order to enroll for an ESA; Establishes the Department of Education (ADE Fund) and State Treasurer (Treasurer Fund) Empowerment Scholarship Account Funds; Allows the department to retain up to 5 percent of the base level support for each student for the purpose of covering administrative costs and deposits retained monies in the Fund; Stipulates that previously qualified students are eligible to apply for ESA renewal for the duration of high school, regardless of any changes to their multidisciplinary evaluation team plan; Requires the department to determine a period that is between July 1 and May1 of each year to accept applications for the following year and estimate the amount required to fund the ESA by May 30. http://www.azleg.gov/legtext/50leg/2r/laws/0360.pdf
Title: H.B. 2622
Source: azleg.gov
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| GA | Vetoed 05/2012 | P-12 | Specifies the language school systems must use to notify parents of a child's potential eligibility for a Georgia Special Needs Scholarship. Requires the student's resident school system to ensure the parent of a student with a disability is provided such notice at each individualized education program (IEP) meeting. Authorizes the state board to require a local board to expedite the development of an IEP and waive the scholarship qualification requirement that a student have spent the previous school year in a Georgia public school, on a case-by-case basis for a student's specific medical needs, on parental request. Authorizes the state board to require such an expedited IEP process to be completed before the start of the school year. Directs the state board to provide an annual report through 2015 on the number of waivers approved pursuant to these provisions. Establishes 3 scholarship application deadlines each school year (September 15, December 15, February 15) for a special needs student to transfer. Allows scholarship amounts to be reduced under certain circumstances. Specifies dates for making quarterly scholarship payments, and requires such payments to be equal, as nearly as practical. Directs the state auditor to cite as an audit exception any failure by the department to meet any payment deadlines and to include such audit exceptions on the state's Transparency in Government website.
Bill text: http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20112012/127590.pdf
Governor's veto message: http://gov.georgia.gov/00/press/detail/0,2668,165937316_184600248_184703295,00.html
Title: H.B. 181
Source: www.legis.ga.gov
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| LA | Signed into law 05/2012 | P-12 | Creates a permanent program out of the two-year School Choice Pilot Program for Certain Students with Exceptionalities. The program is designed for students with various disabilities, including autism, a mental disability, emotional disturbance, developmental delay, other health impairment, specific learning disability, or traumatic brain injury, and has an Individual Education Plan. The program allows students to attend schools of their parents' choosing that provide educational services that specifically address the student's needs. Addresses reporting requirements for the program.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=805343
Title: H.B. 911
Source: http://www.legis.state.la.us
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| MS | Signed into law 05/2012 | P-12 | Establishes the Mississippi Dyslexia Therapy Scholarship For Students With Dyslexia program. Outlines student eligibility requirements for receipt of a scholarship and the term of the scholarship. Stipulates the obligations of parents, students and schools and school districts, and prescribes the duties of the department of education and the state board of education regarding the administration of the scholarship program. Grants authority to the Department of Education to verify the eligibility of nonpublic schools and to establish the process for notifications of violations. Authorizes the state board of education to deny, suspend or revoke a school's participation in the scholarship program.
Requires that all compulsory-school-age children be screened for dyslexia during the period between the spring of kindergarten and the fall of grade 1 and other appropriate times as deemed necessary in the public schools of this state. Establishes procedures for screening and evaluation of students for dyslexia and related disorders. Requires that school diagnosticians receive additional training in the evaluation and diagnosis of dyslexia. Requires that students receive comprehensive academic evaluations by trained diagnosticians in the diagnosis of dyslexia if screening indicates risk of dyslexia.
Requires the department of education to submit an annual report to the legislature summarizing student performance, student assessments, funding and any recommended changes. Prescribes appropriate dyslexia qualifications for administrative and instructional personnel. Requires the state department of education to serve as the local educational agency for those schools. Requires the state to pay directly to the school any federal or state aid attributable to a student with a disability attending the school.
http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2012/pdf/HB/1000-1099/HB1031SG.pdf
Title: H.B. 1031
Source: http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/
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| OK | Signed into law 05/2012 | P-12 | Creates the Rethinking Special Education Competency and Transition Task Force. The task force will focus on improved educational services and outcomes and meaningful postsecondary transition plans. Topics for study also include how special education services can be enhanced through collaboration models, what are the most salient issues when a parent files a complaint, teacher preparation for accommodating students with learning differences, safeguards to assure annual progress, procedures regarding referral and evaluation for special education services, barriers for students who graduate and want to attend postsecondary education classes, options for creating a statewide special education entity and other states' models. Makeup of the task force is modified to include 24 members.
Clarifies that acceptance of a Lindsey Nicole Henry Scholarship will have the same effect as parental revocation of consent to service through the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act and that the amount of a scholarship will be prorated to reflect the number of school days remaining if the scholarship is granted after the beginning of the school year. Specifies that the state department will notify private schools of the amounts for scholarships within 10 days after receiving the request when total State Aid factors have been determined for the current fiscal year.
http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf/2011-12%20ENR/hB/HB3090%20ENR.DOC
Title: H.B. 3090
Source: http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us
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| VA | Signed into law 05/2012 | P-12 | Establishes a credit beginning in taxable year 2012 for corporations donating cash or property to nonprofit organizations providing education improvement scholarships to students who would have been eligible for the free and reduced lunch program under federal law, in order for them to attend nonpublic elementary or secondary schools. Nonprofit organizations to which donations are made would be required to distribute at least 90 percent of their tax-credit-derived funds for such scholarships. The credit would equal 70 percent of the donation made by the corporation and would be refundable. Any corporation taking a charitable deduction on its federal income tax return would be required to add that amount back to its Virginia taxable income in order to receive the credit. There is a $10 million annual cap for the credits.
http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?121+ful+HB321ER+pdf
Title: H.B. 321
Source: http://lis.virginia.gov/
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| LA | Signed into law 04/2012 | P-12 | Expands the current choice program, Student Scholarships for Educational Excellence Program, beyond schools in the New Orleans district to students statewide who meet eligibility requirements. Provides scholarships to eligible students to attend public and nonpublic schools. Eligible students must be from families with a total income not exceeding 250% of the federal poverty guidelines who are entering kindergarten, were enrolled in a public school on Feb. 1 of the previous year that had a letter grade of C, D, or F or any variation thereof, or received a scholarship the previous school year. The law addresses student enrollment preferences and priorities when space is limited. Requires that only after students from "D" and "F" public schools are placed in participating schools indicated on the students' applications, students from "C" schools will be entered into the random selection process and shall be provided an equal opportunity for selection into that particular participating school. Addresses requirements for participating schools: Deletes eligibility requirement that a public school be academically acceptable and instead requires that the school have a letter grade of A or B or any variation thereof, for the most recent school year. Requires the department annually to publish certain student test result data, a list of public schools with certain letter grades, cohort graduation rates, retention rates, and parental satisfaction rates for participating schools as applicable. With respect to funding, requires board of education to annually allocate from the funding formula to each participating school, an amount equal to the amount allocated per pupil to the local school system in which the participating student resides. http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=793655
Title: H.B. 976
Source: http://www.legis.state.la.us
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| VA | Signed into law 04/2012 | P-12 | Establishes a credit beginning in taxable year 2013 for individuals, business entities, and corporations making monetary donations to nonprofit organizations providing education improvement scholarships to students whose family's annual household income is not in excess of 300 percent of the current poverty guidelines and certain students with disabilities, in order for them to attend nonpublic elementary or secondary schools. Nonprofit organizations to which donations are made would be required to distribute at least 90 percent of such donations in the form of scholarships to such students. The credit would equal 65 percent of the donation made and any unused credit for the taxable year could be carried forward for five years. There is an annual cap of $25 million in tax credits for the scholarship program. The Department of Education would administer the tax credit program.
Expands the current Neighborhood Assistance Act Tax Credit program by increasing the tax credit percentage from 40 to 65 percent; raising the cap on education proposals from $4.9 million to $8 million, which has the effect of raising the total cap on the program from $11.9 million to $15 million; expanding the eligibility criteria for programs qualifying for tax credits to encompass programs providing services to certain students with disabilities and individuals whose family's annual household income is not in excess of 300 percent of the poverty guidelines; allowing unused credits at the end of the year to be distributed to neighborhood organizations that had previously met the $500,000 cap on tax credits; and extending the sunset for the program to July 1, 2017. Incorporates SB 241.
http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?121+ful+CHAP0731+pdf
Title: S.B. 131
Source: http://lis.virginia.gov/
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| WI | Signed into law 04/2012 | P-12 | Closing the parental choice program for eligible school districts to additional school districts. Provides that no school district that has not already qualified as an
eligible school district may qualify as an eligible school district after the effective date of this bill. (Act 215)
https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/2011/related/enrolled/sb174
Title: S.B. 174
Source: https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov
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| IN | Signed into law 03/2012 | P-12 | Provides that an individual is eligible for a scholarship from a scholarship program that is certified by the department of education if the student received a scholarship in a preceding school year, including a school year that does not immediately precede a school year in which the individual receives a scholarship from a scholarship granting organization. Provides that an individual must be a member of a household with an annual income of not more than 200% of the amount required for the individual to qualify for the federal free or reduced price lunch program each year that an individual receives a scholarship from a scholarship granting organization. http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2012/SE/SE0296.1.html
Title: S.B. 296
Source: www.in.gov
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| IN | Signed into law 03/2012 | P-12 | Requires an accredited nonpublic school to provide sufficient verbal information to permit a requesting school to which a child transfers to make an appropriate placement decision when the parent of the child is in breach of a contract that conditions release of student records on the payment of outstanding tuition and other fees.
Requires the state board of education to conduct a second count of students enrolled in school corporations and charter schools in February of each school year, with the first count being in September. Expires the school funding formula on July 1, 2013.
Transfers the appropriation and funding for charter school start-up grants to the appropriation for state tuition support. Increases the amount of the charter school start-up grant for charter schools that begin operation in calendar year 2012 and provides that the grant is to be paid in six installments with one installment in each of the last six months of calendar year 2012.
Specifies that the amount distributed as special grants to school corporations to reflect the savings resulting from the education of students under a choice scholarship rather than in a school corporation are limited only by the state fiscal year appropriation and not the calendar year cap that limits the amount of state tuition support payable in a calendar year. http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2012/HE/HE1189.1.html
Title: H.B. 1189
Source: www.in.gov
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| UT | Signed into law 03/2012 | P-12 | Directs the education interim committee to conduct a study of programs and initiatives to assist students at risk of academic failure, including a study of:
(1) The Carson Smith Scholarships for Students with Special Needs program to determine whether program funding is adequate to meet program demand
(2) Programs and funding to assist students in the state's public schools who score below proficient on assessments of academic achievement or are economically disadvantaged
(3) Programs in other states to assist students who score below proficient on assessments of academic achievement or are economically disadvantaged
(4) Other initiatives to assist students at risk of academic failure. http://le.utah.gov/~2012/bills/sbillenr/sb0151.pdf
Title: S.B. 151
Source: le.utah.gov
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| WI | Signed into law 02/2012 | P-12 | This portion of S.B. 2 establishes timelines for student application to nonresident school and for schools to respond to students making the requests. Moves the timeline for application to attend a nonresident school from February to the last weekday in April. The school board is required to respond by the 1st Monday in June, and the family is required to confirm the transfer (if approved) by the last Friday in June. District boards are to determine the number of regular and special education spaces available in January.
https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/2011/related/acts/114
Title: S.B. 2 - Choice of Schools Provision
Source: https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov
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| WI | Signed into law 11/2011 | P-12 | Requires private schools participating in either the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program or the Choice Program for Eligible School districts to report family information to the Department of Public Instruction. Family income data is then to be verified by the Department of Revenue (DOR) to ensure that the family income falls within the eligibility requirements for vouchers. Clarifies that the DOR does not make a determination about eligibility but verifies whether the pupil is eligible to participate on the basis of family income. If DOR is unable to verify eligibility, DOR must notify the Department of Public Instruction (DPI), which must utilize an alternative process to determine eligibility. Adds several accrediting bodies to the list of approved accreditors for participating private schools. Requires the state superintendent to terminate the participation of a private school in either program if the private school retains a disqualified person before the end of a seven-year period following the issuance of an order barring a private school from participating. Permits a private school to recover the cost of providing certain goods and services to a pupil through reasonable fees. Contains other provisions. https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/2011/related/acts/47
Title: S.B. 234
Source: https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov
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| FL | Signed into law 06/2011 | P-12 | Expands eligibility for the John M. McKay Scholarships for Students with Disabilities Program to students with disabilities who have 504 accommodation plan issued under federal law (previously the only students eligible were those with an individual educational plan has been written in accordance with rules of the State Board of Education). Provides that parent may choose to enroll student in public school in adjacent district under certain conditions. Provides for scholarship amounts.
http://www.myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=_h1329er.docx&DocumentType=Bill&BillNumber=1329&Session=2011
Title: H.B. 1329
Source: http://www.myfloridahouse.govt
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| FL | Signed into law 06/2011 | P-12 | From House of Representatives Staff Analysis: Expands the definition of a failing school for purposes of student eligibility for the Opportunity Scholarship Program (OSP) (Created in 1999 as part of a broad education reform package known as the A+ Plan; Designed to provide parents of public school students in failing schools the opportunity to send their children to another public school performing satisfactorily or to an eligible private school), by changing the classification of a failing school from a school receiving two "F's" in a four-year period to a school that receives a "D" or an "F" in the prior year and is in one of the two lowest categories of differentiated accountability. Expands the authorization parents currently have to choose a higher-performing public school that has space available in an adjacent school district to allow a parent to choose a higher-performing public school in any other school district in the state. Provides that if a parent chooses a higher-performing public school within the assigned district, the school district is required to provide transportation. Repeals all portions of the law relating to the OSP private school choice options to comply with existing case law that found this portion of the OSP unconstitutional. http://www.myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=_h1331er.docx&DocumentType=Bill&BillNumber=1331&Session=2011
Title: H.B. 1331
Source: http://www.myfloridahouse.gov
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| NH | Became law without governor's signature 06/2011 | P-12 | Permits the state board of education to grant charter status to all applicants that meet the requirements (removing quota of 20 schools during charter pilot begun in 2003). Requires that the state pay tuition for each pupil attending a chartered public school located in state but outside of the pupil's resident school district directly to the chartered public school.
http://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/legislation/2011/SB0082.html
Title: S.B. 82
Source: www.gencourt.state.nh.us
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| OH | Signed into law 06/2011 | P-12 | Requires that staff at a nonpublic school participating in the Jon Peterson special needs scholarship program or at a college-preparatory boarding school undergo criminal background checks. Permits the chief administrator of a registered private provider participating in the autism scholarship program to request criminal background information. Specifies that when the superintendent receives a request from a nonpublic school participating in the Jon Peterson special needs scholarship program or the autism scholarship program, the superintendent must proceed as if the request came from a local board
Pages 79-100 of 1000: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText129/129_HB_153_EN_part1.pdf
Title: H.B. 153 - Background Checks at Certain Schools
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us
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| OH | Signed into law 06/2011 | P-12 | Amends various provisions of the Educational Choice Scholarship Pilot Program (voucher for students in low-performing schools, not Cleveland voucher). Increases total number of students who may participate from 14,000 annually to 30,000 in the 2011-12 school year, and 60,000 in the 2012-13 school year and thereafter. Adds 4th and 5th level priority for scholarship awards to low-income and other students in specified low-performing schools. Adds provision directing the department to cease awarding first-time scholarships to students in buildings that no longer meet specified low-performance criteria. Removes language specifying dollar amount to be deducted from school district payment for each eligible student. Page 69-74 of 1000: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText129/129_HB_153_EN_part2.pdf
Title: H.B. 153 - Educational Choice Scholarship Pilot Program
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us
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| OH | Signed into law 06/2011 | P-12 | Specifies that the services provided under the scholarship must include an educational component. Pages 74-77 of 1000: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText129/129_HB_153_EN_part2.pdf
Title: H.B. 153 - Autism Scholarship Program
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us
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| OH | Signed into law 06/2011 | P-12 | Establishes the Jon Peterson Special Needs Scholarship Program, effective with the 2012-13 school year, for K-12 students with disabilities to attend either (1) a registered private provider (i.e., a nonpublic school or other nonpublic entity that has been registered by the superintendent of public instruction), (2) a school district that is not the school district in which the child is entitled to attend school or the child's school district of residence, or (3) a public entity other than a school district, to which a parent or person in loco parentis owes fees for services provided to a child. Provides that an eligible student may not be participating in the educational choice scholarship pilot program (low-performing schools scholarship program), the pilot project scholarship program (Cleveland scholarship program), or the autism scholarship program in a year for which scholarship funds are sought. Provides that the scholarship may cover all or a part of the fees for the child to attend the special education program, and other services agreed to by the provider and eligible applicant that are not included in the individualized education program but are associated with educating the child. Specifies the number of scholarships awarded in any fiscal year may not exceed 5% of the total number of students in the state identified as chidlren with disabilities. Requires participating students to take state-mandated assessments and for those results to be reported to the department of education, unless the student is excused from an assessment under federal law or the student's IEP. Establishes a method for determining the amount to be paid for a qualified special education child under the program. Specifies the criteria a nonpublic provider must meet to be eligible to receive payments under the program.
Pages 77-86 of 1000: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText129/129_HB_153_EN_part2.pdf
Title: H.B. 153 - Jon Peterson Special Needs Scholarship Program
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us
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| OH | Signed into law 06/2011 | P-12 | Makes changes to the "pilot project scholarship program" (Cleveland voucher program). Expands eligibility to new applicants through grade 12 (previously new students only accepted through grade 8). Increases scholarship amount effective fiscal year 2012. Pages 170-176 of 1000: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText129/129_HB_153_EN_part2.pdf
Title: H.B. 153 - Cleveland Voucher Program
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us
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| OH | Signed into law 06/2011 | P-12 | Directs the department of education to develop a document that compares a parent's and child's rights under Chapter 3323 of the Ohio code and the Individuals with Disabilities Act (20 U.S.C. 1400 et seq.) with the parent's and child's rights under the Jon Peterson special needs scholarship program, and to revise that document as necessary to reflect any pertinent changes in state or federal statutory law after the initial document is developed. Directs the department and each school district to ensure that this document is distributed in conjunction with the notice required under 20 U.S.C. 1415(d), and any provision of the Code of Federal Regulations implementing that requirement, in the manner and at all the times specified for such notice in federal law or regulation.
Pages 401-402 of 1000: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText129/129_HB_153_EN_part2.pdf
Title: H.B. 153 - Parental Rights and Special Education
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us
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| WI | Signed into law 06/2011 | P-12 | Appropriates funding for the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program (MPCP) and choice programs in other eligible school districts (the latter is an expansion). Section 2532m. (118.60 of the statutes) is created to address parental choice programs for eligible school districts. "Eligible school district" means a school district that satisfies all of the following: 1. The school district's equalized value per member, as determined in accordance with s. 121.15 (4) on October 15 of the 2nd fiscal year of the current fiscal biennium for the distribution of equalization aid in that year, is no more than 80 percent of the statewide average. 2. The school district's shared cost per member, as determined in accordance with s. 121.07 on October 15 of the 2nd fiscal year of the current fiscal biennium, for the distribution of aid in that year is no more than 91 percent of the statewide average. 3. The school district is eligible, in the 2nd fiscal year of the current fiscal biennium, to receive aid under s.121.136. 4. The school district is located in whole or in part in a city of the 2nd class.
For the parental choice program, clarifies re: participating private schools; makes revisions re: family income requirement (family income includes income of the pupil's parents or legal guardians); additional tuition and fees, participation open to any private school, accrediting agency, pupil assessments, family applications, auditing standards, payments directly to the private school, enrollment cap, and state department duties (Department of Revenue references were vetoed). [Sec. 2488pt, 2536-2536g, p-2541m, 2542c-2549u, 9337 (3)-(5r)]. Requires the Department of Public Instruction to notify participating private schools of their eligibility prior to start of the school year [Sec. 2550, 2551].
https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/2011/related/acts/32.pdf
Title: A.B. 40 (Act 32) - Budget Bill
Source: https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov
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| IN | Signed into law 05/2011 | P-12 | Provides a tax deduction for a parent who sends a child to a private school or home schools the child. Increases the school scholarship tax credits that may be awarded for donations to a scholarship granting organization. Prohibits a scholarship granting organization from limiting the availability of scholarships to students of only one participating school. Provides choice scholarships to students in families with income that is not more than 150% percent of the amount required for the individual to qualify for the federal free or reduced lunch program to pay the costs of tuition and fees at a public or private elementary school or high school that charges tuition. Requires fair admissions policies for schools eligible for choice scholarships. Requires an eligible school to include certain subjects in the school's curriculum. Limits the number of choice scholarships awarded per school year before June 30, 2013. Limits the choice scholarship granted to a student in grade 1 through 8 to $4,500 per school year. Provides consequences for nonpublic schools who receive: (1) consecutive low category designations for school performance and improvement; and (2) a distribution of choice scholarships. Makes conforming changes.
http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2011/HE/HE1003.1.html
Title: H.B. 1003
Source: http://www.in.gov/
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| OK | Signed into law 05/2011 | P-12 | Parents requesting a Lindsey Nicole Henry Scholarship for Students with Disabilities must make their request no later than December 1 of the school year during which the scholarship is requested. Removes the date of April 1 by which the school district must notify parents of their rights in regard to the scholarship and leaves in that the district must simply notify them. It also removes language that stated a parent must not be required to accept the offer of enrolling in another public school in lieu of the scholarship and language that instructs the State Department of Education to use funds from general appropriations to pay the scholarship if the district's state aid cannot be reduced enough to cover the expense. Allows for a 2.5% administrative fee by the State Department of Education and gives the Department the authority to reduce state aid to school districts failing to comply with provisions of the program. Also creates the Special Education State-wide Cooperative Task Force until May 31, 2012, to study ways to improve special education and related services. Parents will notify the State Department of Education rather than the school district of the request for a scholarship. The scholarship will be in effect until the student graduates or turns 22, whichever occurs first. Students will not be eligible for the scholarship if they are not having regular contact with the private school teachers at the physical location of the private school.
Link to summary: http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf/2011-12%20SUPPORT%20DOCUMENTS/BILLSUM/House/HB1744%20CCS%20BILLSUM.DOC
Bill text: http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf/2011-12%20ENR/hB/HB1744%20ENR.DOC
Title: H.B. 1744
Source: Westlaw/StateNet
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| AZ | Signed into law 04/2011 | P-12 | Amends Title 15, Arizona Revised Statutes, by adding chapter 19 creating a "scholarship account" program providing options for K-12 students with disabilities to attend private schools. Designates the expenses which can be applied to the account and rules applying to the program. http://www.azleg.gov/legtext/50leg/1r/bills/sb1553h.pdf
Title: S.B. 1553
Source: http://www.azleg.gov
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| PA | Signed into law 11/2010 | P-12 | Not a traditional voucher, but does provide tuition for students to attend school in another district under a tuition arrangement. From the fiscal note: Authorizes tuition for students in small district that are currently under fiscal district to designated districts that accept those students. Receiving school districts will be paid a calculated tuition rate and an additional stipend for two years. The sending district will continue to count those students as part of its average daily membership.
http://www.legis.state.pa.us/CFDOCS/Legis/PN/Public/btCheck.cfm?txtType=PDF&sessYr=2009&sessInd=0&billBody=S&billTyp=B&billNbr=0441&pn=2281
Title: S.B. 441 - Amending Section 1607
Source: http://www.legis.state.pa.us
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| FL | Signed into law 06/2010 | P-12 | Revises provisions relating to John M. McKay Scholarships for Students with Disabilities Program; authorizes the commissioner of education to deny, suspend, or revoke private school's participation in the scholarship program if owner or operator of such school has operated educational institution in this state or another in manner contrary to health, safety, or welfare of public, etc. http://www.myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=_h1505er.docx&DocumentType=Bill&BillNumber=1505&Session=2010
Title: H.B. 1505 - Sec. 1
Source: www.myfloridahouse.gov
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| FL | Signed into law 06/2010 | P-12 | Amends the formula for calculating school grades to include end-of-course (EOC) assessments taken by middle school students and middle school student attainment of industry certification. Provides that student performance on statewide assessments determine school grades for purposes of differentiated accountability and Opportunity Scholarship Program eligibility (Sec. 6). Requires that performance of students designated as hospital/homebound be assigned to their home school (Sec. 29).
http://www.myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=_h1255er.docx&DocumentType=Bill&BillNumber=1255&Session=2011
Title: H.B. 1255 - Sec. 6, 29
Source: http://www.myfloridahouse.gov/
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| GA | Vetoed 06/2010 | P-12 | Revises and clarifies language relating to the organization of schools serving grades 6, 7 and/or 8. Provides that schools serving any of those grades qualify for the middle school program for students. Eliminates provision that for students not performing on grade level, the minimum 5 hours of instruction that middle schools must provide must include remedial academic instruction in English/language arts, reading, math, science or social studies as required to bring such students to grade level performance. Eliminates provision allowing middle schools to submit a waiver request to the state board to schedule a minimum of 4.5 hours of academic instruction (instead of 5), and requiring the state board to grant such a request if the school has achieved an acceptable rating for the preceding year.
Amends provisions related to the scholarship program for K-12 special needs students. Requires specific eligibility notice to be provided to parents of students with a disability each January and April via letter, e-mail and, if the school system utilizes automated telephone calls, by such automated system. Also requires the district to ensure that a student is notified at each IEP meeting. Requires the department to provide scholarship application deadline opportunities on August 1, October 1 and March 1 of each school year for a student to transfer. Requires that quarterly scholarship payments from the department be paid in equal amounts, and that if a student enrolled in the participating school after the school's start date, on or before specified dates for students entering a school during each of four specified quarters. Specifies payment procedures if a quarterly payment date is missed because a student had not been enrolled in a school at least 10 days in the prior quarter.
Bill text: http://www.legis.state.ga.us/legis/2009_10/pdf/hb907.pdf
Governor's veto message: HB 907 was originally intended to allow additional flexibility for management of middle schools, which I support. During the legislative process, however, language from another bill was added which imposes onerous requirements on the Department of Education regarding the Special Needs Voucher, most significant of which was the unqualified requirement to pay such vouchers in four equal quarterly payments. In a budget environment as challenging as this one – an environment in which public schools are being forced to operate on smaller budgets – it is not appropriate to tie administrators' hands and require them to fund vouchers fully as they seek budget flexibility elsewhere during these uncertain economic times. For these reasons, I VETO HB 907. (From http://gov.georgia.gov/00/press/detail/0,2668,78006749_160096907_160291947,00.html)
Title: H.B. 907
Source: www.legis.state.ga.us
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| OK | Signed into law 06/2010 | P-12 | Creates the Lindsey Nicole Henry Scholarships for Students with Disabilities Program. Provide a scholarship to a private school of choice for students with disabilities for whom an individualized education program (IEP) in accordance with the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) has been developed. Scholarships are to be awarded beginning with the 2010-2011 school year. Allows the parent or legal guardian of a public school student with a disability may exercise their parental option and request to have a Lindsey Nicole Henry Scholarship awarded for the child to enroll in and attend a private school.
http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/2009-10bills/HB/HB3393_ENR.RTF
Title: H.B. 3393
Source: http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us
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| WI | Signed into law 06/2010 | P-12 | Requires the governing board of every private school participating in the Milwaukee parental choice program to adopt pupil academic standards in mathematics, science, reading and writing, geography and history. Requires a school participating in the Milwaukee parental choice program to administer the state's 4th grade, 8th grade and 10th grade examinations to all students in those grades who are participating in the parental choice program, and to administer to program participants all other examinations in reading, mathematics, and science that are required to be administered to public school pupils under the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001. Provides for exceptions if the state superintendent informs specified legislative leaders by January 2010 that the department will adopt or approve substantially redesigned exams in the 2011-12 school year. Makes provisions related to assessment of English language learners and students with disabilities applicable to private school students participating in the Milwaukee parental choice program. Also requires a governing body of a private school to excuse a student participating in the Milwaukee parental choice program from taking a state assessment.
Requires the governing body of each private school participating in the Milwaukee parental choice program to develop a policy specifying criteria for granting a high school diploma to pupils participating in the choice program. Requires that the criteria include the pupil's academic performance and the recommendations of teachers.
Requires the governing body of each private school participating in the Milwaukee parental choice program to develop criteria for promoting students from grade 4 to 5, and from grade 8 to 9. Requires criteria to include (1) the pupil's score on the state assessments administered in grades 4 and 8, unless the pupil has been excused by the student's parent from taking the exam; (2) the pupil's academic performance; (3) the recommendations of teachers, which must be based solely on the pupil's academic performance; (4) and any other academic criteria specified by the governing body of the private school. Provides that effective September 1, 2010 a student who does not meet the criteria may not be promoted.
Defines "administrator" for purposes of voucher program. Requires all administrators in a participating private school to have at least a bachelor's degree from an accredited postsecondary institution (provides an exception for an administrator of a participating private school that prepares and trains pupils in rabbinical studies). Provides that "Progress records" has the meaning given in s. 118.125 (1) (c). Requires private schools participating in the voucher program to pay a nonrefundable fee set by the department. Adds provision that the amount of the fee must be such that the total fee revenue covers the costs of employing one full-time auditor to evaluate the financial information submitted by the private schools under the program. Increases educational requirements for teachers at private schools participating in the Milwaukee parental choice program (prior legislation required teachers to have at least a high school diploma or equivalent; new provision requires all of the private schools' teachers to have a bachelor's degree from an accredited postsecondary institution). Excludes teachers who teach only courses in rabbinical studies. Provides that if a teacher teaching at a participating private school on July 1, 2010 does not have at least a bachelor's degree and has been teaching at the private school for at least the five consecutive years leading up to July 1, 2010, the teacher may apply to the department for a temporary, nonrenewable waiver provided the teacher is working toward a bachelor's degree. Provides no waiver may extend beyond July 31, 2015.
Defines "preaccreditation" for purposes of voucher program as the review and approval of an educational plan. Requires any private school that is a first-time participant in the Milwaukee parental choice program on the effective date of this Act and that is not accredited to obtain preaccreditation from the Institute for the Transformation of Learning at Marquette University by August 1 of the school year in which the private school intends to participate in the program. Specifies that a private school that has obtained preaccreditation is not required to obtain accreditation. Removes the Institute for the Transformation of Learning at Marquette University as a private school accreditor for purposes of the Milwaukee parental choice program. Provides that a private school accredited by any of specified accrediting bodies is not required to obtain preaccreditation from the Institute for the Transformation of Learning at Marquette University as a prerequisite to providing instruction in additional grades or in an additional or new school.
Adds that any private school participating in the Milwaukee parental choice program must provide at least 1,050 hours of direct pupil instruction in grades 1-6 and at least 1,137 hours of direct pupil instruction in grades 7-12. Existing law provides that no more than 22,500 pupils may participate in the Milwaukee parental choice program. New provision adds that if the number of pupils being served falls below 22,500, the state superintendent must issue an order notifying participating private schools that they may begin accepting additional pupils. Defines pupils who must be considered 1st priority, 2nd priority, etc. when private schools are accepting additional pupils to reach the 22,500-pupil threshold.
Amends provisions relating to the pupil application process to require a private school that rejects an application to include in the rejection notice the reason for the rejection. Adds that a private school may reject an applicant only if it has reached its maximum general capacity or seating capacity. Amends processes for reimbursing parents of participating pupils only for the 2009-10 and 2010-11 school years. Adds provision to address paying local districts for pupils in participating private schools that close after the beginning of the school year. Requires all participating private schools to provide to all pupils and their parents specified information on the school's policies, for-profit or nonprofit status, names of private school contacts and names of members of the school's governing body or shareholders (if applicable). Requires participating private schools to annually report to the department of education specified information on pupil enrollments in the previous year, data on pupil progression from grades 4-5 and grades 8-9, and on graduation for the previous 5 years, scores on all standardized tests (to the extent permitted by federal law), and a copy of the academic standards adopted by the school. Provides that this information provided to the department must be made available to any pupil or parent upon request.
Additionally requires participating private schools to: (1) Administer a department-developed reading test to all 3rd graders attending the private school through the Milwaukee parental choice program; (2) Adopt specified academic standards; (3) Develop a written policy governing visitors and visits to the private school; (4) Ensure that any teacher's aide has a high school diploma or the equivalent; (5) Annually schedule two meetings to allow parents of pupils attending or applying to attend the school to meet with members of the school's governing board and provide all parents at least 30 days written notice of this meeting; (6) Maintain progress records for each pupil attending the private school through the program, and keep these records for at least 5 years after the pupil ceases to attend the school; (7) Upon request, provide a pupil or the pupil's parent with a copy of the pupil's progress records; (8) Provide for the transfer of all participating pupils' progress records should the school cease operations as a private school; (9) Ensure that an accrediting agency reports to the department on the school's compliance with specified components. Requires pupils participating in the Milwaukee parental choice program to participate in the state assessment system beginning in the 2010-11 school year.
Permits the state superintendent to issue an order barring a private school from participating in the program if he/she determines that a private school has failed to pay the aforementioned nonrefundable fee to the department, has failed to provide specified information to parents of participating students or to the department, or committed other specified violations.
Pages 469-476 of 692: http://www.legis.state.wi.us/2009/data/acts/09Act28.pdf
Title: A.B. 75
Source: www.legis.state.wi.us
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| VT | to governor 05/2010 | P-12 | The first part of this bill relates to incentives for voluntary school district merger, virtual merger, and supervisory union duties. The second part directs the commissioner of education to request the Regional Education Laboratory Northeast and Islands (REL-NEI) to research, analyze and, on or before January 15, 2011, report to the senate and house committees on education, the senate committee on finance, and the house committee on ways and means regarding the fiscal impacts on the education fund, the general fund, property tax rates, and school budgets as well as the effects on educational outcomes if the state were to make tuition vouchers available to all Vermont students.
http://www.leg.state.vt.us/docs/2010/bills/Passed/H-066.pdf
Title: H.B. 66 - Two Sections
Source: http://www.leg.state.vt.us
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| GA | Adopted 01/2010 | P-12 | New Rule 160-5-1-.34 has been adopted, governing the Georgia Special Needs Scholarship Program. http://www.doe.k12.ga.us/_documents/doe/legalservices/160-5-1-.34.pdf
Title: 160-5-1-.34
Source: www.doe.k12.ga.us
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| OH | Signed into law 07/2009 | P-12 | Section 3301.0711(K): Requires private high schools to administer the Ohio graduation tests (regardless of whether they accept voucher students. Participation on grade 3-8 state assessments for non-voucher private school students is still permissive, not mandatory.)
Section 3313.976: Makes administration of state assessments and reporting of such scores a condition of eligibility for a private school to participate in the Cleveland voucher program.
Section 3313.978(G): Directs the department to annually compile the assessment scores of Cleveland voucher students. Requires scores to be aggregated by district and by private school. Requires scores to be disaggregated by age, low-income status, race/ethnicity and gender, and by students participating in the voucher program for 3+ years, 2-3 years, and 1 year or less. Requires such data to be included in information provided to students. Also requires that the parent of each voucher student receive information comparing the student's performance on the state assessments with the average performance of similar students (as regards age, grade, race/ethnicity, gender and socioeconomic status) enrolled in the public school building the student would otherwise attend.
Section 3310.15: Requires the department to annually post on its Web site the assessment scores of EdChoice voucher students (eligible students are those in buildings declared in a state of "academic emergency" or "academic watch" in at least two of the three most recent ratings prior to the school year in which the scholarship was sought). Requires scores to be aggregated at the state, district, and nonpublic school level. Also requires performance data to be disaggregated by age, low-income status, race/ethnicity and gender, and by students participating in the voucher program for 3+ years, 2-3 years, and 1 year or less. Requires the department of education to provide this data to parents of students eligible to participate in the voucher program. Requires that the parent of each voucher student receive information comparing the student's performance on the state assessments with the average performance of similar students (as regards age, grade, race/ethnicity, gender and socioeconomic status) enrolled in the public school building the student would otherwise attend.
Pages 999 (Section 3301.0711(K)), 1129-1130 (Section 3310.15), 1209 (Section 3313.976), and 1213-1214 (Section 3313.978(G) of 3120: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText128/128_HB_1_EN_N.pdf
Title: H.B. 1 - Section 3301.0711(K), 3310.15, 3313.976(11), 3313.978(G)
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us
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| OH | Signed into law 07/2009 | P-12 | Extends eligibility to participate in the educational choice scholarship pilot program to students outside eligible districts. Specifies eligible students are those in a new building in its second or third year and to which all of the following apply (or who would be enrolling in kindergarten and entering such a building, or in a community school but who would otherwise be assigned to such a building):
(1) For the first school year the new building was open, at least 75% of the students had transferred directly from two or more school buildings that closed and to each of which all of the following apply:
(i) The closed buildings were operated by the same school district that operates the new building
(ii) The closed buildings offered at least some of the grade levels that the new building also offers
(iii) The closed buildings were declared, for at least two of their last three accountability ratings, to be in a state of academic emergency or academic watch
(iv) The closed buildings were not declared to be excellent or effective in their last accountability rating
(2) If the new building is conducting its second school year of instruction, the building was declared, based on its first school year of instruction, to be in a state of academic emergency or academic watch
(3) If the new building is conducting its third school year of instruction, the building was declared, based on either its first or second school year of instruction, to be in a state of academic emergency or academic watch, but was not declared to be excellent or effective under that section based on its second school year of instruction.
Existing provision provides differentiated amount deducted from a district's payment for each student participating in the educational choice scholarship pilot program, based on whether the student is in kindergarten or grades 1-12. New provision provides flat amount ($5,200) deducted from district payment for each participating student. Increases maximum scholarship award amounts for students in grades K-8 and 9-12. Repeals language establishing method of determining maximum scholarship amount.
Pages 1123-1127 of 3120: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText128/128_HB_1_EN_N.pdf
Title: H.B. 1 - Section 3310.03, 3310.08 and 3310.09
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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| VT | Became law without governor's signature 07/2009 | P-12 | Among other things, this act:
· Simplifies the statutory divided vote ballot language and requires that the ballot include an explanation of the reasons the vote is divided. (Secs. 6-7)
· Permits the electorate of a school district to vote at a special meeting to provide notice of the availability of information (currently permitted only at annual meeting; municipalities may vote to do so at either). (Secs. 8-9)
· Restores the ability of joint contract schools to access consolidation funds until July 1, 2010. (Sec. 12)
· Permits a parent to request a final determination by the commissioner of education regarding payment of elementary school tuition when there is a geographical barrier to attending the district's school. (Sec. 13)
· Allows parents to notify (rather than request) the school board to pay tuition to an approved independent elementary school but limits the tuition paid by the district to the least of three amounts. (Sec. 13)
· Permits the electorate to authorize a district that does not maintain a public school to designate a public school as the high school for the district; continues to allow parents to request an alternative school but limits the tuition paid by the district to the least of three amounts. (Sec. 13)
· Amends the definition of state-placed student to provide greater educational continuity for the student. (Secs. 14-15)
· Excludes certain actions from the determination of whether a school budget must be presented by a divided vote.
http://www.leg.state.vt.us/docs/2010/Acts/ACT044.pdf
Title: H.B. 427
Source: http://www.leg.state.vt.us
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| WI | Signed into law 06/2009 | P-12 | Requires that a private school participating in the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program adhere to policies that apply to public schools/districts regarding transfer of pupil records (i.e., requires that a private school transfer a pupil's records within five working days after receiving written notice that the pupil intends to enroll or has enrolled in the other school or district).
Page 469 of 692: http://www.legis.state.wi.us/2009/data/acts/09Act28.pdf
Title: A.B. 75
Source: www.legis.state.wi.us/
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| GA | Vetoed 05/2009 | P-12 | Amends provisions regarding educational improvement and taxation of student scholarship organizations. Provides that a student who was eligible for a P-12 private school scholarship at the time an educational scholarship or tuition grant was first received remains an eligible student so long as the student receives an educational scholarship or tuition grant from a student scholarship organization. Includes pre-kindergarten programs as programs qualified to receive scholarship students. Adds to qualifications eligible recipient schools or programs must meet. Specifies six methods by which scholarship funds may be transferred. Requires that all information or reports provided by student scholarship organizations to the department of revenue be confidential. Establishes consequences for any student scholarship organization that fails to comply with its obligations. Specifies that the department of revenue cannot take any adverse action against donors to student scholarship organizations that fail to comply with obligations if the department of revenue preapproved a donation for a tax credit prior to the date the student scholarship organization is removed from the department of education list. Makes active participation in a student scholarship organization's intentional violation of its obligations a misdemeanor. Modifies amount a taxpayer may credit for qualified education expenses to the lesser of (1) the amount actually expended or (2) 75% of the taxpayer's income tax liability. Requires each student scholarship organization to provide the department of revenue with a copy of each letter of confirmation of donation on a monthly basis. http://www.legis.state.ga.us/legis/2009_10/pdf/hb100.pdf
Veto message (Veto Number 2): http://gov.georgia.gov/00/press/detail/0,2668,78006749_139486062_140372354,00.html
Title: H.B. 100
Source: www.legis.state.ga.us
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| OH | Adopted 03/2009 | P-12 | Rescinds and re-establishes rules regarding the Autism Scholarship Program. Relates to application and eligibility; responsibilities of a school district of residence; and application and participation of providers.
3301-103-01 Definitions: http://www.registerofohio.state.oh.us/pdfs/3301/0/103/3301-103-01_PH_FF_N_RU_20090313_1154.pdf
3301-103-02 Autism scholarship program established: http://www.registerofohio.state.oh.us/pdfs/3301/0/103/3301-103-02_PH_FF_N_RU_20090313_1154.pdf
3301-103-03 Application and eligibility to receive a scholarship: http://www.registerofohio.state.oh.us/pdfs/3301/0/103/3301-103-03_PH_FF_N_RU_20090313_1154.pdf
3301-103-04 Responsibilities of a school district of residence: http://www.registerofohio.state.oh.us/pdfs/3301/0/103/3301-103-04_PH_FF_N_RU_20090313_1154.pdf
3301-103-05 Program participation: http://www.registerofohio.state.oh.us/pdfs/3301/0/103/3301-103-05_PH_FF_N_RU_20090313_1154.pdf
3301-103-06 Application and participation of providers: http://www.registerofohio.state.oh.us/pdfs/3301/0/103/3301-103-06_PH_FF_N_RU_20090313_1154.pdf
3301-103-07 Payment under the Autism Scholarship Program: http://www.registerofohio.state.oh.us/pdfs/3301/0/103/3301-103-07_PH_FF_N_RU_20090313_1154.pdf
Title: OAC 3301-103-01 thru -08
Source: www.lexis.com
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| UT | Signed into law 03/2009 | P-12 | Modifies provisions of the Carson Smith Scholarships for Students with Special Needs Act, which provides funds for a child with a disability to attend a private school. Requires parents of eligible to be notified of the availability of a Carson Smith Scholarship within 30 days after a student initially qualifies for an IEP and each February 1 thereafter to all students who have an IEP. Requires any district, school or charter school enrolling a student with an IEP to link on the district or school site to the state site that provides prospective applicants with detailed program information and application forms for the Carson Smith Scholarship Program.
Requires an approved eligible private school that changes ownership to reapply to the state board of education and demonstrate that it continues to meet the eligibility requirements of the program. http://le.utah.gov/~2009/bills/hbillenr/hb0425.pdf
Title: H.B. 425
Source: le.utah.gov
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| FL | Signed into law 06/2008 | P-12
Postsec.
Community College | Relates to charter schools, the Scholarships for Students with Disabilities Program, postsecondary education, school attendance, and high school graduation requirements; revises the terminology used to identify students with intellectual, emotional, or behavioral disabilities; relates to postsecondary education; deletes a provision that prohibits direct medical or pharmaceutical intervention in a regional autism center.
http://www.myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=_h1313er.xml&DocumentType=Bill&BillNumber=1313&Session=2008
Title: H.B. 1313
Source: http://www.myfloridahouse.gov/default.aspx
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| FL | Signed into law 06/2008 | P-12 | Expands the Corporate Income Tax Credit Scholarship Program by increasing the amount of credits and allowing the use of credits for insurance premium taxes; provides that siblings of certain students or students in foster care are eligible for participation in the program; provides that scholarship funds may be used for administrative expenses of a nonprofit scholarship funding organizations.
http://www.myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=_h0653er.xml&DocumentType=Bill&BillNumber=0653&Session=2008
Title: H.B. 653
Source:
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| LA | Signed into law 06/2008 | P-12 | Creates the Student Scholarships for Educational Excellence Program. Defines "covered district" as one that is found academically in crisis pursuant to R.S. 17:10.6, has had schools transfered to the jurisdiction of the Recovery School District, and is located in a parish with a population of at least 475,000 people. Provides that eligible students include those who live in a covered district, are in a family whose income does not exceed 250% of the current federal poverty guidelines, and who meet any of the following criteria: (1) Are entering kindergarten; (2) Were enrolled the previous year in an eligible grade in a school in a covered district and such school has been identified as academically unacceptable or has a school performance score or an assessment index of sixty or below; (3) Received a Student Scholarship for Educational Excellence award in the previous school year and remains otherwise eligible. Provides that for the 2008-2009 academic year, eligible students must be in grades K-3. Provides students in grades 4-12 will be eligible for scholarships as members of the K-3 cohort advance one grade level each year. Provides that a covered district that is eligible for inclusion in the program on the effective date of this Chapter must be considered a covered district for the duration of the program. Establishes eligibility criteria for nonpublic and public schools to participate in the program.
Provides scholarships for eligible students to attend participating public and nonpublic schools. Provides that the scholarship amount must equal the lesser of 90% of the per pupil amount the covered district receives from combined state and local sources, or the maximum amount of tuition plus incidental or supplementary fees that are charged to non-scholarship students enrolled in such school, plus testing fees. If a scholarship recipient enrolls in a school that does not charge tuition, the scholarship amount must equal the lesser of 90% of the per pupil amount the covered district receives from state and local sources, or the participating school's actual cost of educating a student, plus testing fees. Provides for an additional scholarship amount for scholarship recipients entitled to receive special education services. Provides a maximum of $10 million for the 2008-2009 fiscal year to implement this program.
Requires nonpublic schools to administer all assessments required as part of the Louisiana School and District Accountability System, including the Louisiana Educational Assessment Program, the integrated Louisiana Educational Assessment Program (iLEAP), and graduation exit examinations. Requires the department of education to report annually to the senate and house education committees and the joint legislative committee on the budget regarding program implementation, including the number of eligible students receiving scholarships, a list of participating schools and the number of scholarship recipients each such school enrolled, and aggregate test result data for the scholarship recipients enrolled in each participating school. http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=503381
Title: H.B. 1347
Source: www.legis.state.la.us
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| GA | Signed into law 05/2007 | P-12 | Enacts the Georgia Special Needs Scholarship Act to provide scholarships for public school students with disabilities to attend eligible private schools. Establishes student eligibility requirements and requirements for private schools to participate in the scholarship program. Provides that the maximum scholarship granted a scholarship student must be equivalent to the costs of the educational program that would have been provided for the student in the resident school district, not including any federal funds. Provides that the scholarship amount must be the lesser of (1) the educational program costs in the resident school district or (2) the amount of the participating school´s tuition and fees. Authorizes the department of education to bar a school from participation in the program if the department determines that the school has intentionally and substantially misrepresented information or failed to refund to the state any scholarship overpayments in a timely manner.
http://www.legis.state.ga.us/legis/2007_08/pdf/sb10.pdf
Title: S.B. 10
Source: www.legis.state.ga.us
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| UT | Signed into law 03/2007 | P-12 | Amends the Parent Choice in Education Program that awards scholarships to students to attend a private school; modifies the criteria for qualifying for a scholarship and the criteria for private schools to enroll scholarship students; modifies provisions relating to the State Board of Education's oversight of the program; requires the legislative auditor general to conduct a review and issue a report on the program after the conclusion of the 2011-12 school year; requires that amendments in this bill supersede applicable sections of HB 148, which also passed and was signed into law. http://le.utah.gov/~2007/bills/hbillenr/hb0174.htm (HB 174); http://le.utah.gov/~2007/bills/hbillenr/hb0148.htm (HB 148)
Title: H.B. 174
Source: http://www.le.state.ut.us/
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| UT | Signed into law 02/2007 | P-12 | Establishes the state school voucher program, which provides scholarships for students to attend a private school; specifies criteria for qualifying for a scholarship; specifies criteria for private schools to enroll scholarship students; specifies the amount, timing, and form of scholarship payments (amount ranges from $500 to $3,000, depending on eligibility); requires the state board to make rules regarding the program and have enforcement authority over it; requires the Legislature to annually appropriate money from the General Fund for scholarship payments (Fiscal Note for H.B. 148: $100,000 in FY 2007; $9.4 million in FY 2008; $12.4 million in FY 2009). Allows a school district to retain in enrollment a student who transfers to a private school for a period of five years, with a deduction equal to the average scholarship amount.
See also HB 174, which amends this bill and was signed into law during the 2007 legislative session. H.B. 174 specifies that transportation is a parent responsibility; adds a provision requiring participating private schools to employ teachers who have completed a criminal background check; adds a provision that makes a school that encourages illegal conduct ineligible for the program. This bill does not include section 53A-1a-807 (mitigation monies meant to address potential impacts due to unplanned reduction in revenues); does not include 53A-1a-809 (provisions related to the requirement of signed affidavits from private schools, penalties for enforcement and investigation of complaints); and does not include 53A-1a-811 (requirement that legislative auditor review and report on the Parent Choice in Education Program). H.B. 174 specifies that, ". . . amendments to the sections in this bill supersede the amendments to the same numbered sections in H.B. 148 when the Office of Legislative Research and General Counsel prepares the Utah Code database for publication."
H.B. 148:
http://le.utah.gov/~2007/bills/hbillenr/hb0148.htm
H.B. 174:
http://le.utah.gov/~2007/bills/hbillenr/hb0174.htm (HB 174)
Title: H.B. 148, H.B. 174
Source: http://www.le.state.ut.us/
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| OH | Signed into law 12/2006 | P-12 | Sets a number of 14,000 scholarships and amends priorities for distribution, particularly for when the applications exceed the number of available scholarships. Amendments focus on eligibility of students in low-performing schools. See full text for details (attached). From fiscal notes: Am. Sub. H.B. 66 of the 126th General Assembly established the new Educational Choice Scholarship Pilot Program and authorized the award of up to 14,000 scholarships in FY 2007, which can be used to attend participating nonpublic schools. The bill establishes 14,000 as the maximum number of scholarships for future years as well as FY 2007. Under current law, first time scholarships are generally available to students who attend or who would otherwise be entitled to attend a school that has been in academic emergency or academic watch for three or more consecutive years. The bill modifies this eligibility criteria so that first time scholarships are generally available to students who attend or who would otherwise be entitled to attend a school that has been in academic emergency or academic watch for two of the last three years, thus expanding the number of eligible students. The bill makes other more minor changes in the eligibility criteria, which may also expand the number of students eligible for and choosing to receive scholarships. According to ODE, approximately 3,100 students were awarded scholarships for FY 2007.
The amount awarded for each scholarship is the lesser of the actual tuition charges of the school or the maximum scholarship award. H.B. 66 set the maximum scholarship award at $4,250 for grades K-8 and at $5,000 for grades 9-12 in FY 2007. In subsequent years, these amounts are to increase by the same percentage as the increase in the base cost formula amount for school districts. Scholarship students are counted in the resident district's average daily membership (ADM) in order to calculate base cost funding, so that the districts generally will be credited with $5,403 per student in FY 2007. Kindergarten students are counted in ADM as one-half student, reflecting the traditional half-day kindergarten program. As a result, a kindergarten student generates about $2,702 in state base cost funding in FY 2007. An amount equal to $5,200 will be deducted from the resident district's state aid for each scholarship student in grades first through twelfth and $2,700 for each scholarship student in kindergarten. Therefore, a district generally will be credited with more state aid than is deducted for each scholarship student. The bill requires that ODE adjust the ADM of the district if a scholarship is awarded to a student that, for whatever reason, was not included in the district's original ADM. This provision ensures that the district is credited with the appropriate amount of state aid. To the extent that the bill increases the number of scholarships awarded, school districts and community schools will experience decreases in state aid. Although school districts and community schools with scholarship students have fewer students to educate, they may not be able to decrease their expenditures to match their state aid loss ($5,200 for students in grades 1-12 and $2,700 for students in kindergarten), especially in the short run.
http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/bills.cfm?ID=126_HB_79
Title: H.B. 79 -- Section Sec. 3310.02,
Source: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us
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| AZ | Vetoed 06/2006 | P-12 | Relates to school tuition organization tax credits; provides a limit a taxpayer may contribute to a school tuition organization; provides that a school tuition organization shall not request preapproval; provides that approval shall not be given to requests that exceed the prescribed limit; amends provisions regarding a preapproved contribution amount.
Title: S.B. 1071
Source: Arizona Legislature
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| AZ | Signed into law 06/2006 | Postsec. | Establishes the displaced pupils choice grant program under which each custodian of a qualifying pupil who completes an application for a grant shall receive a grant for tuition and educational fees; provides that a pupil is eligible to receive the grant if the pupil has been placed in foster care at any time before the pupil graduates from high school or obtains an equivalency diploma; includes a preschool for handicapped students; provides that such grants shall not be considered taxable income.
http://www.azleg.gov/legtext/47leg/2r/bills/sb1164c.pdf
Title: S.B. 1164
Source: Arizona Legislature
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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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| CT | Signed into law 06/2006 | P-12 | Relates to tax credits for donations of computer equipment to nonpublic schools; provides that any business firm may apply for such tax credit. Public Act No. 145
Title: S.B. 378
Source: Connecticut Legislature
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| VT | Signed into law 05/2006 | P-12 | Directs the commissioner of education to work with education administrators to study the actual costs of providing services to elementary and secondary pupils and, on or before January 30, 2007, to make a recommendation to the general assembly regarding weighting of these pupils.
Directs the commissioner of education to study the effect of the provisions of 32 V.S.A. § 5401(12) and (13), relating to excess spending in school districts and district spending adjustment, on various types of school districts such as those that provide for the education of a significant portion or all of their students through paying tuition and those that have a small number of students. As part of the study, requires the commissioner to consider the effect of removing the portion of secondary technical education tuition which is in excess of the district's equalized per pupil spending from the calculation of excess spending, and the effect of removing interest payments made on funds borrowed in anticipation of capital construction aid from the calculation of district spending adjustment. Requires the commissioner to report the results of the study to the general assembly by January 30, 2007.
Directs the commissioner of education to study alternatives for computing education spending, including alternative methods for counting the average daily membership and to report the results of the study to the general assembly by January 30, 2007.
Directs the commissioner of education to work with Vermont educators and the state board to study the quality of Vermont public schools and independent schools which receive public funds and to study and analyze methods to reduce costs and to deliver the results of the analysis and recommendations for legislative action to the senate and house committees on education by January 30, 2007.
Directs the commissioner of education to report to the senate and house committees on education by January 30, 2007 regarding recommendations, if any, for amendments to Title 16 provisions addressing school district auditing requirements, including the frequency and scope. In developing the recommendations, requires the commissioner to confer with the state auditor of accounts and with representatives of the Vermont association of school business officials, the Vermont superintendents association, and the Vermont school boards association. http://www.leg.state.vt.us/docs/legdoc.cfm?URL=/docs/2006/acts/ACT182.HTM
Title: H.B. 867 - Section 20 (a) through (f)
Source: www.leg.state.vt.us
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| VT | Signed into law 05/2006 | P-12 | Provides that, notwithstanding the restrictions of 16 V.S.A. § 822(c), a town school district which is a member of a union school district and which has historically paid tuition for resident grade 7–12 students attending public and independent schools outside the union high school district, as authorized by the attorney general's opinion No. 13 of July 30, 1954 and section 4339, V.S. 1947, may continue to do so in accordance with the provisions of 16 V.S.A. § 824. Directs the town school district to pay a tuition amount which does not exceed the average announced tuition of Vermont union school districts for grades 7 and 8 or grades 9–12 as appropriate. Clarifies that it is the intent of the general assembly to authorize a town school district which has historically both belonged to a union school and provided for education of its students by paying tuition to continue the practice and not to authorize the practice in other school districts. http://www.leg.state.vt.us/docs/legdoc.cfm?URL=/docs/2006/acts/ACT182.HTM
Title: H.B. 867 - Section 28
Source: www.leg.state.vt.us
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| WI | Vetoed 04/2006 | P-12 | Relates to the number of pupils eligible to participate in the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program regarding entry into private schools. Bill: http://www.legis.state.wi.us/2005/data/acts/05enAB0003.pdf
Amendment memo: http://www.legis.state.wi.us/2005/data/lc_amdt/ab003.pdf
Title: A.B. 3
Source: www.legis.state.wi.us
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| AZ | Became law without governor's signature 03/2006 | P-12 | Creates a corporate income tax credit for contributions made to an school tuition organization (STO) for educational scholarships and tuition grants to low-income children. This credit is annually capped at $5 million starting FY 2006-2007.
In 1997, the Legislature created two tax credits for individual taxpayers. First, a credit for up to $200 for a single individual taxpayer is available for a taxpayer who pays fees or makes a cash contribution to an Arizona public school for the support of extracurricular activities and character education programs. The second credit available to individuals is a credit for up to $500 for a single individual taxpayer who makes a cash contribution to a school tuition organization (STO). Businesses were not eligible for these credits.
http://www.azleg.state.az.us/FormatDocument.asp?inDoc=/legtext/47leg/2r/summary/s.1499fin_aspassedbysenate.doc.htm
Title: S.B. 1499
Source: Arizona Legislative Web Site
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| UT | Signed into law 03/2006 | P-12 | Modifies the State System of Public Education Code by amending provisions of the Carson Smith Scholarship Program; modifies scholarship qualification provisions; requires notification to parents or guardians of the availability of scholarships; modifies eligible private school audit provisions. http://www.le.state.ut.us/~2006/bills/hbillenr/hb0351.pdf
Title: H.B. 351
Source: http://www.le.state.ut.us
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| WI | Signed into law 03/2006 | P-12 | Under current law, the number of pupils who may attend a private school under the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program (MPCP) is capped at 15 percent of the enrollment of the Milwaukee Public Schools (MPS). If in any school year there are more spaces available in the private schools participating in the MPCP than the maximum number of pupils allowed to attend the private schools under the MPCP, the law directs the Department of Public Instruction (DPI) to prorate the number of spaces available at each participating private school. This bill provides that the number of pupils who attend private schools under the MPCP may not exceed 22,500. That number is to be determined in the same manner as public school enrollment is determined; for example, most kindergarten pupils are counted as 0.5 pupil. Under current law, to participate in the MPCP, a pupil must be a member of a family with a total family income of no more than 1.75 times the federal poverty level. This bill allows a pupil to continue to attend an MPCP school if the pupil's family income does not exceed 2.2 times the federal poverty level. The bill also provides that siblings of pupils attending an MPCP school are subject to the higher limit. Under current law, a pupil may participate in the MPCP only if, in the previous school year, the pupil was enrolled in the MPS, was attending a private school under the MPCP, was enrolled in grades kindergarten to three in a private school located in the city of Milwaukee other than under the MPCP, or was not enrolled in school. This bill eliminates this eligibility requirement. This bill requires a private school participating in the MPCP to administer
nationally normed, standardized tests in reading, science, and mathematics to the pupils attending the school in the fourth, eighth, and tenth grades under the MPCP. Beginning in 2006 and annually thereafter until 2011, the private school must provide the scores of all standardized tests that it has administered to the School Choice Demonstration Project, currently at Georgetown University. The bill directs the Legislative Audit Bureau, based upon the standardized test score data that it receives from the project, to review and analyze the test score data and submit reports to the legislature annually from 2007 to 2011. The reports must include the results of various tests, including standardized state tests administered to representative samples of pupils in the MPCP and pupils enrolled in the MPS. Act 125.
http://www.legis.state.wi.us/2005/data/acts/05Act125.pdf
Title: Act. No. 125
Source: http://www.legis.state.wi.us
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| OH | Adopted 02/2006 | P-12 | The purpose of these rules is to prescribe procedures for the administration and implementation of the educational choice scholarship pilot program established by the general assembly in section 3310.16 of the Revised Code. The program shall pay scholarships for up to the number of eligible students prescribed by the general assembly to attend chartered nonpublic schools. The program is established as one of several educational options available for students in academic emergency school buildings.
http://www.registerofohio.state.oh.us/pdfs/3301/0/11/3301-11-02_PH_FF_N_RU_20060214_1441.pdf
Title: OAC 3301-35-01 thru -07, -09 thru -14
Source: http://www.registerofohio.state.oh.us
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| WI | Vetoed 09/2005 | P-12 | An Act to amend 119.23 (2) (b), relating to: the number of pupils eligible to participate in the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program. This bill eliminates the 15 percent cap for the 2005-06 school year. The bill provides that the number of pupils who attend private schools under the program in the 2006-07 school year or in any school year thereafter may not exceed the number who did so in the 2005-06 school year.
http://www.legis.state.wi.us/2005/data/AB-3.pdf
Title: H.B. 3
Source: http://www.legis.state.wi.us/
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| WI | Vetoed 05/2005 | P-12 | Under current law, the number of pupils who may attend a private school under the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program is capped at 15 percent of the enrollment of the Milwaukee Public Schools (approximately 15,000 pupils). If in any school year there are more spaces available in the private schools participating in the program than the maximum number of pupils allowed to attend the private schools under the program, the law directs the Department of Public Instruction (DPI) to prorate the number of spaces available at each participating private school. This bill eliminates the 15 percent cap for the 2005-06 school year. The bill provides that the number of pupils who attend private schools under the program in the 2006-07 school year or in any school year thereafter may not exceed the number who did so in the 2005-06 school year. http://www.legis.state.wi.us/2005/data/AB-3.pdf
Title: AB 3
Source: http://www.legis.state.wi.us
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| KS | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12
Postsec. | Allows the board of education of any school district, any teacher of mathematics, science, physics, chemistry or biology, and a business firm to enter a partnership agreement under which such business firm agrees to employ such teacher in a position that requires mathematics or science skills commensurate with the classes that the teacher regularly teaches when school is not regularly in session. Provides the business with a state income tax credit of 25%, or 30% for a teacher teaching in a school district in a rural community, underserved area, or underperforming urban area. Limits the total amount of credits for the program per fiscal year to $500,000. Limits the total amount of credits per congressional district to $125,000.
Establishes the mathematics and science teacher service scholarship program, which grants up to 50 new scholarships each year to qualified students who are Kansas residents working toward certification to teach math or science in grades 6-12 and who agree to teach in an accredited public or private school in Kansas for at least four years. Creates in the state treasury the mathematics and science teacher service scholarship program fund and the mathematics and science teacher service scholarship repayment fund.
Full text: http://www.kslegislature.org/bills/2006/138.pdf
Fiscal note: http://www.kslegislature.org/legsrv-bills/showBill.do?id=36145
Supplemental note: http://www.kslegislature.org/legsrv-bills/showBill.do?id=38088
Title: S.B. 138
Source: www.kslegislature.org
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| AZ | Vetoed 03/2005 | P-12 | After December 31, 2005, allows a taxpayer to deduct from his/her tax penalty any amount of voluntary cash contributions up to $10,000 made by the taxpayer to a school tuition organization, and a portion of contributions of $10,000 or more. Prohibits the department from allowing tax credits for contributions in any calendar year that exceed specified amounts. Sets forth procedures for donors and the school tuition organization governing the making and accepting of tax credit contributions. Specifies that a tax credit is not allowed for any contribution to the school tuition organization for the direct benefit of any specific student. Requires a portion of donations to school tuition organizations to go towards scholarships to low-income students that meet additional qualifications. Sets forth reporting requirements for school tuition organizations. Sets limit for amount of any tuition grant or scholarship awarded by a school tuition organization in 2006 and subsequent years.
http://www.azleg.state.az.us/DocumentsForBill.asp?Bill_Number=2379
Title: H.B. 2379
Source: www.azleg.state.az.us
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| UT | Signed into law 03/2005 | P-12 | Creates a program to award scholarships to students with disabilities who attend a private school. Specifies criteria for qualifying for a scholarship; specifies criteria for private schools to enroll scholarship students; specifies the amount, timing, and form of scholarship payments; requires the state board to make rules; gives the state board enforcement authority; and requires the Legislature to annually appropriate money from the General Fund for scholarship payments. http://www.le.state.ut.us/~2005/bills/hbillenr/hb0249.pdf
Title: H.B. 249
Source: http://www.le.state.ut.us
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| WI | Emergency Rule Adoption 07/2004 | P-12 | Establishes emergency rules regarding financial reporting requirements under the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program. WISCONSIN REG 20410 (SN)
Title: PI 35
Source: StateNet
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| NH | Signed into law 06/2004 | P-12 | Establishes a committee to study the issue of school choice in New Hampshire any issue relating to school choice which it deems relevant. Requires the committee to report its findings and recommendations by November 30, 2004. http://gencourt.state.nh.us/legislation/2004/HB0727.html
Title: H.B. 727
Source: gencourt.state.nh.us
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| CO | Signed into law 05/2004 | Postsec.
Community College | Establishes the College Opportunity Fund Program; requires each state and private institution of higher education which does not receive loan services through the Colorado Student Loan Program to pay an implementation fee and an on going disbursement fee; specifies the college opportunity fund shall be trust fund for eligible undergraduate students. http://www.leg.state.co.us/clics2004a/csl.nsf/fsbillcont2/e1e067acaeb853c887256df8005f11e2?OpenDocument&Click=87256D6C00679B13.b925f7d822283ac087256dd3003efcdb/$Body/1.2
Title: S.B. 189
Source: Colorado Legislative Web site
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| IA | Vetoed 05/2004 | P-12 | Allows individual income tax credits for contributions made to certain school tuition organizations and including an applicability date provision. http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us/Cool-ICE/default.asp?Category=billinfo&Service=Billbook&hbill=SF2295
Title: S.F. 2295
Source: StateNet
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| WI | Assembly Sustained Governor's Veto 05/2004 | P-12 | Relates to eligibility for participation in the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program. (Governor vetoed in November 2003; veto sustained in May 2004)
Title: A.B. 259
Source: StateNet
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| UT | Vetoed 03/2004 | P-12 | Creates a program to award scholarships to students with disabilities who attend a private school; specifies criteria for qualifying for a scholarship; specifies criteria for private schools to enroll scholarship students; specifies the amount, timing, and form of scholarship payments.
Title: H.B. 115
Source: StateNet
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| WI | Vetoed 03/2004 | P-12 | Requires a private school participating in the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program to conduct a criminal background check on each new employee and all existing employees; requires a private school to submit a copy of the school's certificate of occupancy issued by the city of Milwaukee and evidence of sound fiscal practices.
Title: A.B. 836
Source: StateNet
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| WI | Signed into law 03/2004 | P-12 | Relate the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program; requires a private school to conduct a criminal background check on all persons employed as instructional staff; requires a private school to submit to the Department of Public Instruction a copy of the school's certificate of occupancy issued by the city of Milwaukee, proof that the administrator of the school participated in a fiscal management training program, and evidence of sound fiscal practices.
Title: A.B. 847
Source: StateNet
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| WI | Vetoed 11/2003 | P-12 | Extends the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program to all private schools in Milwaukee County.
Title: A.B. 260
Source: StateNet
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| WI | Vetoed 11/2003 | P-12 | Directs the Legislative Audit Bureau to administer a study of the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program.
Title: A.B. 126
Source: StateNet
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| WI | Vetoed 11/2003 | P-12 | Relates to the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program income limit. (Governor vetoed in November 2003; Assembly sustained veto in May 2004)
Title: A.B. 472
Source: StateNet
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| CO | Signed into law 06/2003 | P-12 | Modifies the eligibility criteria for children in grades 1 through 3 for purposes of the "Colorado Opportunity Contract Pilot Program" (HB03-1160) to require a child to have been continuously attending a public school during the previous school year and has been assessed below grade level on reading readiness or literacy and reading comprehension. http://www.leg.state.co.us/2003a/inetcbill.nsf/fsbillcont/4295E920CFF3C36387256D080063EA0F?Open&file=1369_enr.pdf
Title: H.B. 1369
Source: Colorado Legislative web site
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| OH | Signed into law 06/2003 | P-12 | Funding Formula:
Eliminates the requirement that the General Assembly recalculate the base funding amount every six years.
Eliminates school districts ability to calculate their student enrollment on a three year rolling basis.
Requires the Department to develop a new method for determining school district attendance rates.
Decreases the annual inflation factor in the funding formula from 2.8% to 2.2%.
Vouchers:
Increases the amount of the Pilot Scholarship Program (Cleveland Vouchers) from $2,500 to $3,000.
Allows for 9th and 10th graders to qualify for the Cleveland Vouchers and increases the amount of private tuition that parents can be required to pay in addition to the funds provided by the voucher.
Charters:
Requires the state to pay charter schools, instead of school districts, for each enrolled student. In addition states are to subtract funding for each student who leaves a district school to attend a charter school.
Title: H.B. 95
Source: Digest of Enactments 2003
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| CO | Signed into law 04/2003 | P-12 | Establishes the "Colorado Opportunity Contract Pilot Program" beginning in the '04-'05 school year, which requires school districts with eight or more low or unsatisfactory schools to allow eligible students to attend a participating nonpublic school under the terms of an opportunity contract between the child's parent and the school. Eligible students are those eligible for free- or reduced-cost school lunches who received an unsatisfactory rating on the state reading or math assessment. http://www.leg.state.co.us/2003a/inetcbill.nsf/billcontainers/1CD19B474697FA4C87256C68004FC76C/$FILE/1160_enr.pdf
Title: H.B. 1160
Source: Colorado Legislative Web site
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| LA | Signed into law 06/2002 | P-12 | Revises the individual income tax credit for child care expenses and educational costs.
Title: H.B. 238
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| CO | Signed into law 04/2002 | Postsec. | Concerns modifications to the state income tax credit available to Colorado taxpayers who make monetary contributions to the Colorado Institute of Technology; clarifies the amount of the credit that may be claimed; requires submission of certain documentation when claiming the credit; delays the applicability of the credit for one year; corrects the name of the institute to which contributions are to be made in order to qualify for the credit. http://www.leg.state.co.us/2002a/inetcbill.nsf/fsbillcont/F3045117CEFD624C87256AFB0056B030?Open&file=1059_enr.pdf
Title: H.B. 1059
Source: www.leg.state.co.us
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| CA | Rejected by voters 11/2000 | P-12 | PROPOSITION 38 Amends State Constitution. Authorizes State-funded $ 4000-per-pupil annual payments to qualifying private and religious schools as grants for new enrollees, and partial grants for children enrolled in private schools before the measure's approval. Permits Legislature to increase amounts annually. Repeals voter-approved Constitutional funding priority of public schools. Limits funding guarantees to years when specified conditions occur.
Title: V. 25
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| MI | Rejected by voters 11/2000 | P-12 | A proposed amendment to the Michigan constitution to provide for guaranteed school funding, teacher testing, and school choice. The amendment would alter Article VIII, Section 2 and create a new article VIII, Section 10.
Title: V. 1
Source: Lexis-Nexis
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| CA | On 11/07/2000 ballot 06/2000 | P-12 | INITIATIVE 844; Authorizes state-funded $ 4000-per-pupil annual payments to qualifying private and religious schools as grants for new enrollees, and partial grants for children enrolled in private schools before the measure's approval. Permits legislature to increase amounts annually. Repeals voter-approved Constitutional funding priority of public schools. Limits minimum State funding guarantees for public schools to years when specified conditions occur.
Title: V. 25
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| AZ | Signed into law 04/2000 | P-12 | Relates to individual income tax credits for tuition paid for preschool for children with disabilities; defines "handicapped" student as a student who is hearing impaired, visually impaired, preschool moderately delayed, preschool severely delayed, and preschool speech or language delayed; adds preschools for students with disabilities to the qualified schools for which the tax credits can be claimed.
Title: H.B. 2226
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| TX | Died 07/1999 | P-12 | Creates a public education scholarship program in counties with a population of 575,00 or more; students who did not pass the most recent TAAS and were educationally disadvantaged could receive a voucher for a private school.
Title: S.B. 10
Source: "Advocate," Summer 1999
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| MD | Died 06/1999 | P-12 | Authorizes Delegate Scholarships to be used at nonpublic primary and secondary schools by students attending public schools subject to reconstitution.
Title: H.B. 668
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| OH | Signed by governor 06/1999 | P-12 | Repeals the current law establishing the Cleveland voucher program and enacts language nearly identical to the former, except for a new provision establishing the program as for K-5 rather than K-8 students, and the omission of former language which allowed participating private schools to give admissions preference to members of organizations financially supporting the schools.
Title: H.B. 282 (Part of Omnibus Bill)
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| FL | Signed into law 05/1999 | P-12 | Revises provisions regarding private school opportunity scholarships to be provided to certain public school students; provides student eligibility requirements; provides parental involvement requirements; provides for identification of schools by performance grade category according to student and school performance date.
Title: H.B. 751
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| MD | Died 02/1999 | P-12 | Allows an income tax subtraction modification for specified education related expenses paid for dependents in kindergarten through grade 12, subject to specified limitations.
Title: H.B. 564
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| MD | Died 02/1999 | P-12 | Provides a credit against the Maryland State income tax and against the county income tax for tuition paid to a private institution of elementary or secondary education.
Title: S.B. 605
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| MD | Died 02/1999 | P-12 | Allows an individual or a corporation a subtraction modification under the Maryland income tax for computer equipment that is donated to a private or parochial elementary or secondary school in the State.
Title: H.B. 391
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| CT | Died 07/1998 | P-12 | Establishes a tax credit for qualified education expenses for a child in a public or nonpublic school in Connecticut.
Title: H.B. 5180
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| LA | Signed into law 06/1998 | P-12 | Provides for a tax credit for corporations to be taken against the corporation income and franchise taxes when the corporation purchases or acquires property adjacent to a school and then donates the property to the school for educational purposes.
Title: H.B. 129 Tax Credit
Source: Information for Public Affairs, Inc.
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| LA | Signed into law 06/1998 | P-12
Community College | Establishes employer tax credits for donations of materials, equipment, advisors or instructors, to job training providers, vocational/technical colleges or community colleges; also applies to secondary schools; relates to income taxes, corportate franchise taxes; requires the Department of Labor to consult with the Department of Revenue to promulgate regulations.
Title: S.B. 76
Source: Information for Public Affairs, Inc.
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| MO | Died 12/1997 | P-12 | Authorizes a state income tax deduction for school tuition, attendance fees, supplies, and transportation costs.
Title: S.B. 472
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| AZ | Died 06/1997 | P-12 | Establishes the School Voucher Pilot Program; makes an appropriation.
Title: H.B. 2362 School Voucher Pilot Program
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| CA | Died 06/1997 | P-12 | Provides an income tax credit of up to $250 for retired persons 65 years of age and older who contribute up to 500 hours per year of volunteer services to a public K-12 school to aid existing school employees. Does not allow a credit for volunteer services that displace, or prevent the placement of, any classified employee of a public school.
Title: A.B. 283 Tax Credits for Retired Persons
Source: California Association of School Administrators
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| CO | Signed into law 06/1997 | P-12 | Beginning with the 1997 income tax year, allows a credit against state income taxes for 10% of the total qualified investment made in a qualified school-to-career program. Repeals the existing income tax credit for investment in school-to-career programs in which students work predominantly in enterprise zones.
Title: H.B. 1152 Income Tax Credit for School-to-Career Programs
Source: Colorado Association of School Boards
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| CT | Died 06/1997 | P-12 | Permits the establishment of interdistrict choice programs and private school choice programs.
Title: H.B. 5170 Choice Programs
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| LA | Died 06/1997 | P-12 | Relates to the provision of education vouchers; establishes the Educataion Voucher Program; provides for the purpose of such program; provides relative to student eligibility and school qualification to participate in the program; provides relative to the duties and powers of the state Department of Education, the State Board of Elementary and Secondary Eduation, and the division of administration; provides for the payment and repayment of the vouchers; provides certain limitations and restrictions.
Title: S.B. 343 Provision of Education Vouchers
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| LA | Died 06/1997 | P-12 | Authorizes parents of home-schooled children to receive an income tax credit.
Title: S.B. 216 Income Tax Credit for Home-Schooled Children
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| MN | Signed into law 06/1997 | P-12 | Charter school provisions (removes the cap of 40 schools; $50,000 start-up grants for charters are made available; separate grants are available to help repair facilities; private colleges can now serve as sponsors); requires that, beginning with the 1998/99 school year, school district calendars must be three days longer than the number of days of student instruction adopted by the district at the beginning of the 1996/97 school year, the first year without a minimum number of days; based on the results of a standardized eight-grade test, postsecondary institutions which determine that students are not prepared for college level courses, and need remedial courses, are allowed to "bill-back" the fees necessary to provide those courses to the school district which graduated the student, unless the high school can show the student did meet basic skill requirements; nonpublic school students are now eligible for the Postsecondary Enrollment Options program through their nonpublic school; TAX CREDITS AND DEDUCTIONS: Current maximum tax deduction for each dependent in grades 7-12 increases from $1,000 to $2,500 and from $650 to $1,625 for dependents in grades K-6. Deductions are allowed for currently deductible expenses (tuition, fees, nonreligious textbooks and instructional materials, and transportation expenses paid to others) as well as for academic summer school and summer camps, tutoring, and personal computer hardware and educaitonal software, with a limit of $200 for computer hardware and software. The existing working family credit increases form 15 to 25 percent of the federal earned income credit for families with qualifying children. The maximum credit for a family with one child increases from $332 to $553. For a family with two or more children, the maximum credit increases from $548 to $914. A new credit is created for education-related expenses for families with gross income less than $33,500 per year. Creditable expenses are the same as deductible expenses, with the exception of private school tuition or fees, which are not creditable.
Title: H.B. 1 & S.B. 1
Source: Lexis-Nexis
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| OR | Signed into law 06/1997 | P-12 | Extends sunset date for equipment donation tax credit to January 1, 2004; expands types of educational institutions for which donation of equipment may be claimed as credit to include public prekindergarten through grade 12 educational institutions.
Title: S.B. 1147 Equipment Donation Tax Credit
Source: Lexis-Nexis
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| CA | Died 05/1997 | P-12 | Authorizes a $30 to $100 tax credit for each qualified computer that is contributed by the taxpayer during the taxable or income year. It requires that the computer be transferred to qualified facilitator or refurbisher for placement in a public school, private school, college or university classroom.
Title: A.B. 372 Tax Credit for Computer Contributions
Source: California Association of School Administrators
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| CA | Died 05/1997 | P-12 | Authorizes a tax credit of up to $50,000, beginning January 1, 1997 and until January 1, 2007, for startup expenses of establishing, constructing, or expanding a public school facility to be used by the children of employees of the taxpayer or the children of employees of tenants leasing space in a building owned by the taxpayer, and by other resident children of the school district.
Title: A.B. 56 Tax Credit
Source: California Association of School Administrators
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| CA | Died 05/1997 | P-12 | Authorizes a tax credit for the unreimbursed qualifying classroom educational expenses paid or incurred by a teacher at a qualifying educational institution. A qualifying educational expense includes such things as instructional materials, textbooks, equipment, and school supplies. A qualifying educational institution is defined as any public elementary, secondary, or vocational-technical school in the state providing any of grades K-12.
Title: A.B. 336 Tax Credits for Unreimbursed Classroom Educational Expenses
Source: California Association of School Administrators
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| IN | Signed into law 05/1997 | P-12 | Relates to tax credits for computer donations. Removes a requirement that educational service centers pay to the Revenue Department an amount for state tax credits issued by the service center to taxpayers for donations of qualified computer equipment. Removes from the calculation of the selling price of the equipment an amount attributable to the tax credit for the donation of the equipment.
Title: S.B. 375
Source: Lexis-Nexis
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| MO | Died 05/1997 | P-12 | Creates an income Tax credit for certain educational expenses.
Title: H.B. 210 Income Tax Credit for Educational Expenses
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| MO | Died 05/1997 | P-12 | Challenge Scholarships will phase in tax credits of up to $1,500 per year. The scholarships will begin with a maximum credit of $500 for calendar year 1998, reach $1,000 in 1999, and build to the full $1,500 in 2000. Students need to make satisfactory progress toward a degree or certificate to claim the tax credits, and must attend any of approximately 90 Missouri colleges, universities, and technical schools that meet established standards of quality.
Title: H.B. 538/S.B. 287 Challenge Scholarship Program
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| AZ | Signed into law 04/1997 | P-12 | Beginning tax year 1998, establishes the following two nonrefundable individual income tax credits, in lieu of a deducation, from Arizona adjusted gross income, of which the excess amounts of each is allowed to be carried forward for up to five consecutive years: (1) for cash contributions of up to $500 made to a school tuition organization (charitable organization that distributes choice scholarships or tuition grants to a private elementary or high school that does not discriminate on the basis of several specified characteristics). The credit is disallowed if the taxpayer designates the donation for the direct benefit of any dependent of the taxpayer. The director of the Department of Revenue is required to report by July 1, 1999 to the Governor and the Legislature regarding the credit's fiscal impact; (2) for any fees paid by a taxpayer to a public school, up to $200, for the support of extracurricular activities.
Title: H.B. 2074
Source: Lexis-Nexis/ StateNet
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| CA | Died 04/1997 | P-12 | Authorizes any grade 1-12 pupil who resides in a lower-income household to receive a voucher (called an "opportunity scholarship") in order to enroll in participating qualified private or public school. Requires that the value of the voucher be equal to the combined actual tuition, transportation, uniforms, supplies or other qualified educational expenses, or 90 percent of the statewide revenue limit per unit of average daily attendance, whichever is less. Voucher awards are limited to no more than 250,000 pupils in any fiscal year.
Title: A.B. 25 Opportunity Scholarship
Source: California Association of School Administrators
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| IL | Vetoed 04/1997 | P-12 | Amends the Illinois Income Tax Act. Provides that beginning with tax years ending after December 31, 1997, a taxpayer who is the custodian of a qualified pupil shall be allowed an income tax credit equal to $500 per pupil for qualified education expenses. Provides that any credit in excess of the tax liability shall be refunded to the taxpayer. Provides the pupil must be a resident of Illinois, under 21, and a full-time pupil. Makes other provisions.
Title: H.B. 999 Income Tax Credit
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| MT | Died 04/1997 | P-12 | Provides an individual tax credit for qualifying elementary and secondary education expenses by an individual for a dependent minor.
Title: H.B. 433 Tax Credits for Education Expenses
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| MT | Died 04/1997 | P-12 | Establishes a tax credit for businesses and individuals hiring recent Montana college graduates; allows a carryover of unused credits; provides an immediate effective date and a retroactive applicability date.
Title: H.B. 80 Tax Credits
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| TX | Died 04/1997 | P-12 | Creates a public education scholarship pilot program for children assigned to attend certain low-performing public schools.
Title: S.B. 1206 Public Education Scholarship Pilot Program
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| UT | Died 04/1997 | P-12 | Proposes to reduce class size and control enrollment growth by granting tax credits to parents for tuition at private schools.
Title: S.B. 61 Income Tax Credits
Source: Utah Education Association
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| ID | Died 03/1997 | P-12 | Relates to income tax credits against state income tax for nonuse of the public schools for residents with children of compulsory school age (homeschooled children).
Title: H.B. 342
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| OR | Died 03/1997 | P-12 | Grants tax credit for educational expenses paid or incurred for students not attending school.
Title: H.B. 3427 Tax Credit for Educational Expenses
Source: StateaNet
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| OR | Died 03/1997 | P-12 | Grants tax credit for education expenses paid or incurred for student attending private or public school or in home school program.
Title: S.B. 954
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| CO | Died 02/1997 | P-12 | Relates to reimbursing parents for all or a portion of tuition costs incurred in sending children to nonpublic schools; provides that a court may determine reimbursement for parochial school atttendance as unconstitutional.
Title: H.B. 1228 Vouchers for Nonpublic Schools
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| IN | Died 02/1997 | P-12 | Establishes an elementary and secondary school scholarship program that provides scholarships equal to 50% of a school corporation's state aid per ADM to certain students who rank academically in the lower half of their grade. (Passed Senate; to House)
Title: S.B. 151 Elementary and Secondary Scholarship Program
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| MS | Died 02/1997 | P-12 | Allows income tax credit for college tuition.
Title: H.B. 1099 Income Tax Credit for College Tuition
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| MS | Died 02/1997 | P-12 | Authorizes income tax deductions for completing high school or college or both for individual income tax.
Title: H.B. 740 Tax Credits
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| CO | Died 01/1997 | P-12 | Establishes a pilot scholarship program to allow eligible students to attend a nonpublic school and to assist qualified parents who choose to provide nonpublic home-based educational programs for their children. A nonpublic school would be defined to mean any nonpublic school operating in the state for at least three years, but would not include a parochial school. A student would be eligible to participate in the pilot voucher program if the pupil is eligible for free or reduced cost lunch under the federal "National School Lunch Act," and if in the prior school year, the pupil was either enrolled in a public school, was enrolled in a nonpublic school under the pilot scholarship program, or was not enrolled in any school nor participating in any nonpublic home-based educational program.
Title: H.B. 1259 Choice
Source: Colorado Legislative Council Staff
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| MN | Signed into law 01/1997 | P-12 | Appropriates funds for statewide testing; provides an education income tax credit; expands the Charter School Law; expands the interdistrict open enrollment and postsecondary enrollment options programs; creates the Minnesota Learning Academy to train school teachers and staff in technology use and integration and provides grant programs for Learning and library sites.
Title: S.B. 21 Appropriates Funds for Statewide Testing, Learning and Technology
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| CA | Died 07/1996 | P-12 | The California Assembly has approved a bill by a 41-35 vote giving voucher subsidies to religious and other private schools. The bill would allow some 290,000 students to enroll in non-public schools using $3,000 "scholarships."
Title: A.B. 3180 Vouchers for Religious Schools
Source: Church and State, July/Aug. 1996; Lexis-Nexis
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| DE | Died 06/1996 | P-12 | Creates a Private School Voucher Program initially for students who are eligible for AFDC.
Title: H.B. 687 & 710 Private School Voucher Program
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| FL | Died 05/1996 | P-12 | Establishes a 5 year pilot program allowing school districts to participate in program; provides for the Department of Education to issue vouchers to children who are eligible for the free lunch program or reduced lunch program to be used at schools that are designated as scholarship schools; provides requirements under which a private school may be designated as a scholarship school.
Title: S.B. 420 Vouchers
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| IA | Signed into law 04/1996 | P-12 | Increases the nonpublic school tax credit and eliminates the nonpublic school tax deduction for amounts paid for tuition and textbooks for nonpublic elementary and secondary schools under the state individual income tax and providing effective and applicability date provisions.
Title: S.B. 2467 Vouchers
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| IL | Died 04/1996 | P-12 | Establishes a pilot program under which, beginning with the 1997-98 school year, the parents or guardians of pupils residing within a selected geographic region of the Chicago school district are entitled to vouchers for payment of qualified education expenses incurred by the pupils while enrolled at public or non-home based, non-public elementary or secondary schools that are located in the region selected.
Title: H.B. 3533 Educational Choice Act
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| KY | Died 03/1996 | P-12 | Relates to vouchers for exceptional pupils; establishes voucher program for exceptional pupils to attend a private school organized specifically for exceptional pupils; establishes phase-in period beginning in 1996-97 school year and capped at maximum of 10% of district's prior year's average daily attendance beginning in 1998-99 school year; requires parent or guardian of eligible child to apply to participating school and require a written response accepting or denying admission to pupil within 60 days.
Title: H.B. 928 Vouchers for Exceptional Pupils
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| KY | Died 03/1996 | P-12 | Establishes a school voucher program to provide for the private school education of eligible students with tuition payable by state voucher in an amount of the private school's tuition or $2,000 for elementary and middle school pupils and $2,500 for high school pupils; provides that no more than 1% in 1996-97, 3% in 1997-98, and 10% in succeeding years of school district enrollment and 65% of the private school enrollment be composed of students attending under the voucher program.
Title: S.B. 342 Voucher Program
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| MD | Died 03/1996 | P-12 | Establishes the Maryland School Resources Conservation Program as a method of allowing parents or guardians to choose a public or nonpublic school for their children and receive educational assistance to do so; establishes a commission to administer the program and issue grants; establishes a method for raising money for the program; relates to alternative education for parents and guardians without financial resources to do so independently. (Reported unfavorably from House Committee on Ways and Means)
Title: H.B. 969 Vouchers
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| NY | Died 03/1996 | P-12 | Creates a Constitutional Amendment to allow voucher payments and tuition tax credits relating to religious schools.
Title: A.B. 9578 Voucher Payments and Tuition Tax Credits
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| AL | Died 02/1996 | P-12 | Relates to credits against state income tax liability; provides a credit to parents of children who attend public or private schools in the state and who are in one of the grades K-12.
Title: S.B. 337 Vouchers and Credit Against State Income Tax
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| AZ | Died 02/1996 | P-12 | Relates to obtaining direct credit against taxes for tuition paid in K-12 school for children younger than 18 years of age. (Withdrawn from House Committee on Ways and Means)
Title: H.B. 2282 Tax Credits
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| IA | Died 02/1996 | P-12 | Provides an income tax credit or education for tuition paid to accredited postsecondary institutions in Iowa under certain circumstances.
Title: H.B. 2170 Tuition Paid Tax Credit
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| IL | Died 02/1996 | P-12 | Creates a tax credit against the income tax equal to an amount donated to the After School Learning Foundation for purposes of tutoring programs. Sunsets the credit after 10 years.
Title: S.B. 1652 Tax Credit for Money Donated to After School Learning Foundation
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| MN | Died 02/1996 | P-12 | Provides that any nonpublic which enrolls a student who receives an education voucher to pay for tuition costs or fees must comply with all state laws and rules governing public schools, including the open meeting law, PELRA, veterans preference, uniform municipal contracting requirements for disabled students pupil fair dismissal act, teacher employment and retirement laws, student record access requirements.
Title: H.B. 3152 Non-Public Schools Receiving Vouchers
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| MO | Died 02/1996 | P-12 | Allows an individual income tax deduction for certain qualified education expenses on behalf of the taxpayer or any other person or persons to any public, private, parochial, or home school. This bill will become effective January 1, 1997, and applies to all tax years beginning after December 31, 1996.
Title: H.B. 1516 Income Tax Deduction
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| UT | Died 02/1996 | P-12 | Relates to tax credit for education costs.
Title: H.B. 494 Tax Credit for Education Costs
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| AZ | Died 01/1996 | P-12 | Requires the State Board of Education to run a "parental choice grant program" by which state grants are available to parents for their children to attend any public or private school.
Title: S.B. 1254 Parental Choice Grant Program
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| CO | Died 01/1996 | P-12 | Concerns financing alternatives for education, and, in connection therewith, establishing the pilot voucher program.
Title: H.B. 1251 Pilot Voucher Program.
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| HI | Died 01/1996 | P-12 | Proposes a new article to provide personal income tax credit for basic education expenses for students who attend private or parochial school, and proposes amendments to Article I, Section 4, Article VII, Section 4, and Article X, Section 1, of the Constitution of the state of Hawaii to abolish the prohibition against appropriation of public funds for students or parents of students attending private, nonprofit institutions of education.
Title: H.B. 3315 Income Tax Credit
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| MN | Died 01/1996 | P-12 | Proposes funding vouchers for students living in four initial school districts: Minneapolis, St. Paul, Brooklyn Center, and one rural district to be announced. The bill includes $15 million for the first year alone to reimburse tuition for the estimated 7,000 eligible students from those districts who already attend private schools. All private schools, including religious schools, unaccredited schools, and schools run for profit could - but would not have to - accept vouchers. This "option" limits real "choices." Special education students would trade their right to receive services in public school for a Special Education Voucher worth $3,408 or the cost of services, whichever is less. Private schools would not be required to provide special education services or accept these vouchers. Special education laws would not apply to private schools. A transportation voucher worth $141 in St. Paul, $191 in Minneapolis and $202 in Brooklyn Center would release public schools from transportation obligations. Basic voucher + transportation voucher + Special Education voucher = Total amount cut from each District's state funds the year after a voucher student leaves the district. The Governor wants the voucher to go to the parent, who then "assigns" it to a private school. But the state and federal constitutions are clear - no direct aid to church schools. This bill, if passed, faces a long, expensive, and unsuccessful battle in court.
Title: H.B. 2084/S.B. 1851 Vouchers
Source: Minnesota School Boards Association
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| MO | Died 01/1996 | P-12 | Provides that, in determining a taxpayer's Missouri adjusted gross income, the taxpayer may subtract the amount he or she has paid to others for each dependent in grades 9-12 for tuition and/or attendance fees, for or on behalf of each dependent in attending a secondary school in Missouri, up to a maximum of $2,000 for each dependent, from federal adjusted gross income. S.B. 485 states up to a maximum of $2,500 per dependent.
Title: S.B. 480, S.B. 485 Tax Credits
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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| VA | Died 01/1996 | P-12 | Creates an individual income tax deduction for tuition payments made by a taxpayer to a public or private, two or four year college or university in Virginia.
Title: S.B. 473 Higher Education Tuition Tax Credit
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| VA | Died 01/1996 | P-12 | Provides a $1,000 credit to individuals between the ages of 18 and 65 who obtain a high school diploma or its equivalency during the tax year in which it is obtained, and an additional $1,000 credit if the individual can document, through his employer, that he had obtained a job or a promotion as a result of obtaining the diploma; provides a $1,000 tax credit to an employer for each employee it allows to work towards a high school diploma or equivalent.
Title: H.B. 726 Tax Credit
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| VT | Died 01/1996 | P-12 | Enables a parent to deduct tuition paid to an approved public or private school in another school district from local property taxes.
Title: H.B. 597 Tax Credits
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| MA | Died 07/1995 | P-12 | Establishes an educational tax credit.
Title: H.B. 1042 Voucher Tax Credits
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| OR | Died 06/1995 | P-12 | The Oregon House has referred a bill that would have created a statewide school voucher system to the rules committee, killing the measure for this session. No vote was taken on the bill before it was consigned to legislative limbo last month, making it difficult to tell how much support there was for the measure. The bill would have given students vouchers or "portable scholarships" that could be used at private schools, equal to half the funds the state spends on each public school student. The state's current per pupil expenditure is $5,018 per year. Supporters are expected to revive the proposal in the 1997 legislative session. (p. 13)
Title: No Voucher Vote
Source: Education Week 6/7/95
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| WI | Signed into law 06/1995 | P-12 | Under the current Milwaukee Parental Choice Program, low-income elementary or secondary pupils in the City of Milwaukee may attend, at no charge, a participating nonsectarian private school located in the city. The bill makes numerous changes in the program, including; 1) expanding the program to include sectarian schools and providing that no pupil may be required to participate in any religious activity if the pupil's parent files a written request that the pupil be exempted; 2) increasing the limit on the number of pupils who may participate from 1.5% of the Milwaukee Public Schools enrollment (approximately 1,450 pupils in 1994-95) to 7% in 1995-96 (approximately 7,000 pupils) and 15% thereafter (approximately 15,000 pupils); 3) repealing the current 65% limitation on the percentage of a participating private school's enrollment that may consist of Milwaukee Parental Choice Program pupils; 4) allowing pupils who, in the previous school year, were enrolled in grades kindergarten through three in private schools in the City of Milwaukee to participate in the program (current law excludes such pupils unless they are enrolled in a private school under the Choice Program); 5) providing that siblings of pupils accepted to the program through random selection need not also be accepted on a random basis; and 6) changing the method of payment so that the check would be made out to the pupil's parent or guardian who must then restrictively endorse the check for the use of the private school (rather than making the payment to the private school). NOTE: enacted, but COURT INJUNCTION PROHIBITING IMPLEMENTATION. Private contributions are allowing students who had already applied to private religious schools to attend as planned in 95-96.
Title: A.B. 150, as amended by the Joint Committee on Finance, Choice
Source: Legislative Council Staff
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| CT | Died 05/1995 | P-12 | Bills on public and private school choice were not brought to a vote on the floor of either house. The Senate passed a charter school bill, but it died on the House calendar at the end of the session. The governor has created a blue ribbon commission to study the issue, which is guaranteed to be reexamined next year.
Title: Choice and Charters
Source: Office of Legislative Research
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| NC | Died 05/1995 | P-12 | The legislation calls for a 3-year phase in of K-12 tuition grants for children to attend non public schools. School age children of families with incomes at 175% of the poverty level for a family of four would be eligible for tuition grants of 75% of the per pupil expenditure for the school system where they live. (Average grant amount of $2,050.) Special needs children identified in the bill would receive 100% of the per pupil expenditure for the school system where they live. (Average grant amount of $4,786.) For 1996-97, school age children of higher income families entering grades 9, 10, 11 and 12 would be eligible to receive tuition grants of 50% of the per pupil expenditure for the school system where they live. (Average grant amount of $1,400.) In 1997-98, all remaining children would be eligible for tuition grants of 50% of the per pupil expenditure for the school system where they live. (Average grant amount of $1,400.) (DPI Legislative Review, 4/6/95 Vol. XII, No. 12)
Title: Vouchers Rear Head in General Assembly (H.B. 781)
Source: North Carolina Department of Public Instruction
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| PA | Died 05/1995 | P-12 | On Tuesday May 9, Governor Tom Ridge introduced his Education Reform Bill, H.B. 1640, which includes "Educational Opportunity Grants: available to all children in public or non-public schools whose parents meet the income limits. Eligibility for grants will be phased in statewide over three years beginning in those school districts with the highest proportion of children in low income families. Under the program, families with incomes less than $15,000 will receive $700 vouchers to send their children to an elementary school of their choice and $1000 vouchers for secondary schools. The bill, which has bipartisan support, will hopefully be voted on next month.
Title: Choice 1995
Source: Nina Shokraii, John Kramer
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| OH | Passed 04/1995 | P-12 | The Ohio House approved a voucher plan that would help pay tuition for Cleveland students at private and religious schools. The measure, being considered as part of the budget proposal by the House Republican leadership, would provide $5.25 million for a pilot project. It remained unclear last week how many students such a project would serve. The program has generated storms of protests, with opponents falling short in their efforts to kill it during floor debate. An amendment to delete the voucher program was easily defeated. But observers said the House plan will face a tougher test in the Republican controlled Senate. (p. 16) [Passed as a pilot for Cleveland.]
Title: Ohio House Approves Voucher Bill Targeting Cleveland Schools
Source: Education Week 4/12/95
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| CA | Died 03/1995 | P-12 | The following are bills dealing with vouchers: S.B. 995 - this bill died, but would have allowed children in certain overcrowded schools to attend private schools and be reimbursed for the tuition by the public school district. A.B. 1290 - a major educational reform bill that includes vouchers (died). A.C.A. 15 - a companion measure to A.B. 1290 that would establish a voucher program if passed by the voters (died). S.B. 976 - another modified voucher bill (died). (SELL - 4/3/95)
Title: Vouchers
Source: Association of California School Administrators
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| IL | Died 03/1995 | P-12 | The Illinois Senate passed a controversial voucher proposal that would allow parents in Chicago to use state money to offset the cost of tuition at private or parochial schools. (p. 15) The voucher plan targets disadvantaged parents in one area of Chicago who could receive a voucher of up to $2,500 to send their children to a private school. Critics contend the bill would consume $5M in funds that otherwise would be directed to public schools. (DRC 5/15/95)
Title: Vouchers
Source: Education Week 3/15/95; Daily Report Card 5/15/95
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| IN | Died 03/1995 | P-12 | Establishes a nonpublic school choice program for students residing within the Indianapolis public schools (IPS) district. Designates the department of education as the administrator of the program. Allows eligible students to apply for enrollment at accredited nonpublic elementary or middle schools located within Marion County and designated by the dept. as program participants.
Title: SBO640 Nonpublic School Choice for IPS
Source: Indiana University Education Policy Center
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| MI | Died 03/1995 | P-12 | A petition drive is underway in MI to place a constitutional amendment on the 1996 ballot that asks voters to repeal a ban against using public money for private schools. Religious schools would not be included in the proposals. The plan would be phased in over 13 years, beginning in kindergarten and adding a grade each year until 12th grade.
Title: Vouchers
Source: Daily Report Card 3/24/95
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| ND | Passed 03/1995 | P-12 | Directs the Legislative Council to study the impact of nonpublic schools on the state and the feasibility and desirability of offering tax credits or vouchers to the parents of nonpublic school children.
Title: S.C.R. 4059 Voucher Tax Credits
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| PA | Died 03/1995 | P-12 | Pennsylvania would run the first statewide school voucher program, promising to help pay for children to attend private and religious schools (proposed by Governor Ridge). The Governor has unveiled a budget that would make vouchers available throughout Pennsylvania within three years to parents who met certain income requirements. (pp. 1 & 15)
Title: Voucher Program for Pennsylvania
Source: Education Week 3/15/95
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| MO | Died 01/1995 | P-12 | This proposed constitutional amendment grants annual, nontaxable, scholarships to all school age Missouri children. The scholarships can be no less than one-half of the annual average amount of state and local expenditures per public school student (approximately $3,000 for the current fiscal year.) The scholarships can be used to pay all or part of the cost of education at schools that elect to redeem scholarships. Both public and private schools can become eligible to redeem scholarships by filing a statement with the State Board of Education indicating the school's adherence to certain principles of nondiscrimination and lawful conduct. The resolution requires public school districts to allocate enrollment among schools based upon parental choice. Public schools that do not redeem scholarships, after completing all district enrollments, must accept students regardless of their residence until they meet their capacity. The schools may count these non-resident students for state aid purposes. The resolution prohibits the General Assembly from enacting regulations applicable to private schools without approval of three-fourths of its members, except that regulations related to safety and fraud may be enacted by a two-thirds vote. The General Assembly is directed to develop and implement a process throgh which public schools may become independent, scholarship redeeming institutions that operate under regulations no more restrictive than those applicable to private scools that redeem scholarships. The resolution requires legal challenges to any provision of the amendment to be initiated within 6 months of the effective date of the amendment. After 6 months have elapsed, the provisions of the amendment can only be challenged based upon their application.
Title: H.J.R. 1 School Choice
Source: House Research
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| NM | Vetoed 02/1994 | P-12 | The legislation designed to give public money to private schools died. Last year it was close to passage. This year the bill did not get past its first hearing in the Senate Education Committee where it was tabled temporarily but never resurrected. (Capitol Alert, NEA - NM 2/94)
Title: Voucher Bill Dies
Source:
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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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| Federal |
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| Finance |
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| Health |
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| Private Schools |
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| Privatization |
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| School Safety |
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| Special Education |
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| Teaching Quality |
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| Teaching Quality--Recruitment and Retention--High-Needs Subjects |
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| Teaching Quality--Teacher Attitudes |
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