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From the ECS State Policy Database - Highlighted Policies


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This database is made possible by your state's fiscal support of the Education Commission of the States (ECS). Most entries are legislative, although rules/regulations and executive orders that make substantive changes are included. Every effort is made to collect the latest available version of policies; in some instances, recent changes might not be reflected. For expediency purposes minimal attention has been paid to style (capitalization, punctuation) and format. To view the documents, click on the blue triangle next to the year.

Please cite use of the database as: Education Commission of the States (ECS) State Policy Database, retrieved [date].

Status/Date State Issue Level Summary
- 2013


Signed into law 07/2013

Missouri

Business Involvement


P-12,
Postsec.
Education Campus Fund
S.B. 381
Creates the Innovation Education Campus Fund to provide funding to innovation education campuses - an educational partnership between high schools or school districts, a Missouri four-year public or private institution of higher education, a Missouri-based bu...

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Signed into law 07/2013

Oregon

Special Education--Transition


P-12
Assisting Students with Disabilities in Transitioning from High School
H.B. 3264
Establishes a pilot program in which school districts develop and implement strategies for providing information to, and assisting students with, disabilities in applying for post-secondary opportunities, securing employment, and accessing support services or ...

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Signed into law 06/2013

Texas

Career/Technical Education


P-12,
Postsec.
Texas Workforce Innovation Needs Program
H.B. 3662
Creates the Texas Workforce Innovation Needs Program. Provides the purposes of the program are to provide selected districts, and public and private or independent institutions of higher education, with the opportunity to establish innovative programs designed...

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Signed into law 06/2013

Texas

Career/Technical Education


P-12
Skills Development Fund Dollars to Support Certain Dual Credit Programs
H.B. 3028
Permits the Texas Workforce Commission to use up to 5% of the general revenue appropriated to the skills development fund for that biennium, along with funds available to the commission from other sources, to be awarded to a public junior college, public state...

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Signed into law 06/2013

Texas

Leadership--District Superintendent


P-12
Teaching and Learning Conditions Survey
H.B. 2012 - Teaching and Learning Conditions Survey
Directs the commissioner of education to develop an online survey to be administered statewide at least every other year to superintendents, principals, supervisors, classroom teachers, counselors, and other appropriate certified, full-time professionals. Requ...

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Signed into law 06/2013

Texas

No Child Left Behind--Supplemental Services


P-12
Supplemental Education Service Providers
H.B. 753
Defines "rigorous research." Requires districts to include, in annual notice to parents of supplemental educational services (SES), information on characteristics of SES that, based on rigorous research, are more likely to foster improvement in student academi...

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Signed into law 06/2013

Texas

Special Populations--Foster Care


P-12
Enrollment and Transfer of Students in the Conservatorship of the State
S.B. 832
Extends to open-enrollment charter schools the requirement that each district appoint at least one employee to act as a school liaison to assist children in the conservatorship of the state with school enrollments and transfers. Requires districts and charter ...

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Signed into law 06/2013

Texas

Teaching Quality--Preparation


P-12
Texas Teacher Residency Program
H.B. 1752
By March 1, 2014, directs the commissioner of higher education to use a competitive selection process to establish a Texas Teacher Residency Program at a public institution of higher education. Requires that the institution of higher education form a partnersh...

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Signed into law 06/2013

Texas

Teaching Quality--Preparation


P-12
Educator Preparation Programs
H.B. 2012 - Educator Preparation Programs
Requires that each educator preparation program provide information on:
(1) The skills educators are required to possess, the responsibilities educators are required to accept, and the high expectations for Texas students
(2) The effect of supply and demand fo...

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Signed into law 06/2013

Texas

Teaching Quality--Professional Development


P-12
Professional Development Requirements Audit
H.B. 2012 - Professional Development Requirements Audit
Directs the Texas Education Agency (TEA) to periodically conduct an audit of the professional development requirements applicable to educators, including state, federal, and district-imposed requirements. Directs the agency, based on audit results, to seek to ...

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to governor 06/2013

Vermont

High School


P-12
Flexible Pathways to Secondary School Completion
S. 130
Provides state-funded dual enrollment, expansion of Early College programs, expansion of work-based learning, virtual/blended learning. Requires personal learning plans for all students by 7th grade. The definitions section should be of particular interest to ...

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Signed into law 05/2013

Maine

Postsecondary Students--Low-Income


Postsec.
First-Generation College Student Success
H.P. 294
Requires by January 15, 2014, and annually thereafter, the Board of Trustees of the University of Maine System, the Board of Trustees of the Maine Community College System and the Board of Trustees of the Maine Maritime Academy to each submit to the joint stan...

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Signed into law 05/2013

Virginia

Accountability--Accreditation


P-12
Statewide School Division: The Opportunity Educational Institution
S.B. 1324
 Creates a statewide school division called the Opportunity Educational Institution to be administered and supervised by the Opportunity Educational Institution Board (also established by this bill). Requires any school that has been denied accreditation and p...

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Signed into law 04/2013

Tennessee

Teaching Quality--Evaluation and Effectiveness


P-12
Teacher Evaluation
H.B. 150
Under current law, only 35% of teacher or principal evaluation are based on student growth data. This bill provides that teachers can request 100% of their evaluation to be based on student growth data, if they achieve a level of "above expectations" or "signi...

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Signed into law 04/2013

Utah

Proficiency-Based Approaches


P-12
Competency-Based Education
H.B. 393
Directs the state board, before the 2014 legislative session, to make recommendations to the public education appropriations subcommittee on a course-level funding formula that distributes funds to districts and charter schools that establish competency-based ...

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