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Adopted 11/2009 |
Georgia | Accountability |
P-12 | LEA Contracts for Flexibility and Accountability
GAC 160 -5-1-.33
Renames rule (previously titled "School District Contracts for Flexibility and Accountability to Improve Student Achievement") to "Investing in Educational Excellence (IE2): Local Education Agency Contracts for Flexibility and Accountability". Amends rule, whi...
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Adopted 11/2009 |
Illinois | Accountability--Sanctions/Interventions |
P-12 | Public Schools Evaluation, Recognition and Supervision
23 IAC 1.20, .30, .100, .240, .420, .465, .480, .510, .737
Partially from "Notice of Adopted Amendments" in Illinois Register (changes from this rulemaking but not listed below are technical in nature or echo recent changes in legislation):
Section 1.20: Revised to distinguish among the appropriate levels of sign-of...
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Signed into law 11/2009 |
Rhode Island | High School--Advanced Placement |
Postsec.,
Community College | Bachelors Degree in Three
H.B. 5286
Authorizes the Bachelors Degree in Three program, a new educational initiative designed to expedite the process so that students can earn a bachelor's degree at a state college or university within 3 years; requires the establishment of a credit transfer polic...
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Signed into law 11/2009 |
Rhode Island | Postsecondary Success--Completion |
Postsec. | Bachelors Degree in Three
S.B. 1052
Authorizes the Bachelors Degree in Three program, a new educational initiative designed to expedite the process so that students can earn a bachelors degree at a state college or university within three years. http://www.rilin.state.ri.us/billtext09/senatetext...
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Passed 11/2009 |
Rhode Island | Teaching Quality--Preparation |
P-12 | Blueprint for a New Generation of Teacher Education
H.B. 5896
(Joint Resolution) Creates a special legislative study commission whose purpose it would be to study the establishment of a blueprint for a new generation of teacher education. http://www.rilin.state.ri.us/billtext09/housetext09/h5896a.pdf...
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Vetoed 10/2009 |
California | Bilingual/ESL |
P-12 | Including Improving English Proficiency in State Accountability System
A.B. 1435
Relates to the advisory committee on the creation of the Academic Performance Index and the implementation of the Immediate Intervention/Underperforming Schools Program and High Achieving/Improving Schools Program. By July 2010, directs the advisory committee ...
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Vetoed 10/2009 |
California | P-3 |
P-12 | Early Childhood Nutrition and Physical Activity Pilot Program
A.B. 627
Provides legislative findings and declarations on nutrition and health in children's early years. Requires the superintendent of public instruction to establish a minimum 12-month pilot program in which selected child care centers and day care homes participat...
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Vetoed 10/2009 |
California | Special Populations--Foster Care |
P-12 | Preschool Enrollment for Children of Juvenile Court Wards
A.B. 769
States findings and declarations regarding children of youth who are in custody, or on probation or in the foster care system. Requires priority for participation in state preschool programs to be given to children who have a biological custodial parent who is...
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Signed into law 08/2009 |
Arizona | Leadership--Principal/School Leadership--Certification and Licensure |
P-12 | Superintendent Qualifications
H.B. 2011--Section 15
Section 15-503. If a governing board (local school board) employs a superintendent or principal, or both, the board shall determine the qualification of the superintendent by action taken at a public meeting. The governing board shall require a superintendent...
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Signed into law 08/2009 |
Arizona | Teaching Quality--Compensation and Diversified Pay |
P-12 | Teacher salary reductions
H.B. 2011--Section 21
Gives districts flexibility to select which teachers' salaries to reduce, rather than applying a general salary reduction.
http://www.azleg.gov/legtext/49leg/3s/bills/hb2011.pdf...
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Signed into law 08/2009 |
Arizona | Teaching Quality--Reduction in Force |
P-12 | Teacher employment
H.B. 2011--Section 14
Section 14. H--Notwithstanding any other law, a school district or charter school shall not adopt policies that provide employment retention priority for teachers based on tenure or seniority.
http://www.azleg.gov/legtext/49leg/3s/bills/hb2011.pdf...
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Signed into law 08/2009 |
Arizona | Teaching Quality--Tenure or Continuing Contract |
P-12 | Teacher Contracts
H.B. 2011--Section 17
Section 15-536 removes deadlines for districts to offer teaching contracts or notify of a general salary reduction and eliminate a prohibition against reducing the salary of a tenured teacher except as a part of a reduction for all teachers.
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Adopted 08/2009 |
California | Postsecondary Governance and Structures |
Postsec. | Conferral of Degree upon Completion of Requirements
Title 5 CCR Section 40411
Allows the president of each California State University campus to preclude a student from enrolling in any additional state-supported courses when the student has met all conditions for a degree but has not taken the steps to be awarded the degree. Allows eac...
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Signed into law 08/2009 |
Illinois | P-3 |
P-12 | MOUs Between State and Head Start Programs
S.B. 79
Requires grantees under the Preschool for All Children program to enter into a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the appropriate local Head Start agency within three months of the awarding of the grantee's grant. Requires collaboration between the grantee...
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Signed into law 08/2009 |
Illinois | Postsecondary Participation--Access |
Postsec.,
Community College | Collaborative Baccalaureate Degree Development Grant Program
S.B. 1883
Requires the board of higher education to implement the Collaborative Baccalaureate Degree Development Grant Program to help deliver upper-division courses and bachelor's degree programs offered by colleges and universities at a location geographically conveni...
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Signed into law 08/2009 |
North Dakota | Attendance |
P-12 | Student Absences
S.B. 2217
Requires teachers to notify administrators when a student is absent without an excuse. Requires administrators to investigate the absence. Provides for penalities. Unless the responsible party (parent, guardian) has made substantial and reasonable attempts to ...
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Signed into law 08/2009 |
North Dakota | School Safety |
P-12 | School Procedures to Help in Identification and Location of Missing Children
S.B. 2161
Relates to school enrollment procedures to aid in the identification and location of missing children. When a child enrolls in a public or nonpublic school, licensed day care facility, home
education, licensed day care center, licensed child care facility, hea...
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Signed into law 07/2009 |
Illinois | Accountability--School Improvement |
P-12 | Innovation, Intervention, and Restructuring Task Force
S.B. 2119
Creates, in accordance with the goals outlined in the federal American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, the Innovation, Intervention, and Restructuring Task Force to develop recommendations for the innovation, intervention, and restructuring of schools, ...
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Signed into law 07/2009 |
Illinois | At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention) |
P-12,
Community College | Dropout Recovery
S.B. 1796
Establishes the Illinois Hope and Opportunity Pathways through Education (IHOPE) Program, to be adminstered by the state board of education, to develop a comprehensive system to re-enroll significant numbers of high school dropouts in programs that will enable...
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Signed into law 07/2009 |
Illinois | Leadership |
P-12 | Mentoring for New Superintendents
S.B. 1276
Requires any individual, with exceptions, who begins serving as a first-time superintendent in the state on or after July 1, 2009 to participate in a mentoring program for his or her first 2 school years as a superintendent. Specifies that superintendent mento...
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Signed into law 07/2009 |
Illinois | P-16 or P-20 |
P-12,
Postsec. | P-20 Longitudinal Education Data System
S.B. 1828
Creates the P-20 Longitudinal Education Data System Act. Requires the state board of education, the community college board, and the board of higher education to jointly establish and maintain a longitudinal data system by entering into one or more agreements ...
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Signed into law 07/2009 |
Missouri | Special Populations--Foster Care |
P-12 | Foster Care Education
S.B. 291--Foster Care Education Bill of Rights
Establishes "Foster Care Education Bill of Rights." Each district must designate a staff person to be an educational liaison for foster care children. Liaison would assist with proper educational placements, transferring between schools, ensuring transfer of g...
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Signed into law 07/2009 |
Ohio | Accountability--Reporting Results |
P-12 | Financial Reporting and Minimum Standards
H.B. 1 - Section 3301.07
Partially from the DOE summary of H.B. 1:Modifies the current requirement for the state board to develop a standard for reporting financial information to the public. Requires districts and educational service center boards to report revenues and expenditures ...
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Signed into law 07/2009 |
Ohio | Choice of Schools--Charter Schools--Finance |
P-12 | Community School Declared to Be Unauditable
H.B. 1 - Section 265.80.20
Provides that if the Auditor of State or a public accountant declares a community school (charter school) to be unauditable, the Auditor of State must provide written notification of that declaration to the school, the school's sponsor, and the department of e...
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Signed into law 07/2009 |
Ohio | Economic/Workforce Development |
Postsec. | Entrepreneurial Projects by Postsecondary Institutions
H.B. 1 - Section 3345.35
Defines "entrepreneurial project" as an effort to develop or commercialize technology through research or technology transfer or investment by an institution of higher education or others. Defines "stock or other ownership" as equity or other ownership rights...
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Signed into law 07/2009 |
Ohio | Finance--Funding Formulas |
P-12 | Earkmark Accountability
H.B. 1 - Section 265.50.70
At the state superintendent's request, requires any entity that receives a budget earmark under the state department of education to submit annually to the the chairs of the house and senate education committees and the department of education a report that in...
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Signed into law 07/2009 |
Ohio | Finance--Funding Formulas |
P-12 | School Finance Redesign
H.B. 1 - Section 3306.01, 3306.011, 3306.012, 3306.02, 3306.051
New Chapter 3306.: As described in the bill analysis by the Ohio Legislative Service Commission (LSC), "The bill enacts a new R.C. Chapter 3306., and revises many other existing codified laws, to establish a new system of financing for school districts and oth...
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Signed into law 07/2009 |
Ohio | Governance--Deregulation/Waivers/Home Rule |
P-12 | Waivers from Financial Requirements
H.B. 1 - Section 3306.40
Authorizes local boards to apply to the state superintendent for waivers from financial provisions established in Chapter 3306, including any applicable expenditure or reporting standard prescribed by rule adopted by statutory requirement, or or a waiver of an...
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Signed into law 07/2009 |
Ohio | Governance--Deregulation/Waivers/Home Rule |
P-12 | Limitation to Waivers
H.B. 1 - Section 3302.05 and 3302.07
Existing law allows waivers from certain state mandates to school districts identified as "excellent" or "effective" under the state accountability system. New provision provides that such districts may not be released from any standard or requirement of Chapt...
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Signed into law 07/2009 |
Ohio | Governance--State Boards/Chiefs/Agencies |
P-12 | Early Childhood Advisory Council and Early Childhood Financing Workgroup
H.B. 1 - Section 3301.90 and 265.70.20
Section 3301.90:Creates the Early Childhood Advisory Council to serve as the federally mandated state advisory council for early childhood education and care, and to advise the state regarding the creation and duties of the Center for Early Childhood Developme...
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Signed into law 07/2009 |
Ohio | High School |
P-12 | Governor's Closing the Achievement Gap Initiative
H.B. 1 - Section 3306.31 and 265.70.80
Specifies that the following provisions apply to any district with a three-year average graduation rate at or below 80%. Requires each such district's local board to implement actions prescribed by the governor's closing the achievement gap initiative in each ...
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Signed into law 07/2009 |
Ohio | Leadership |
P-12 | Center for Creativity and Innovation
H.B. 1 - Section 3301.82
**No funds allocated in the current budget for this center, according to the DOE's H.B. 1 summary document http://www.education.ohio.gov/GD/DocumentManagement/DocumentDownload.aspx?DocumentID=71635**
Authorizes the state superintendent to create the center f...
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Signed into law 07/2009 |
Ohio | Middle School |
P-12 | College and Career Readiness, Financial Literacy
H.B. 1 - Section 3301.0721, 3301.079(A)(2) and 3313.601, 3313.603
Section 3301.079(A)(2). Requires the state board to adopt K-12 standards for instruction in financial literacy and entrepreneurship, which must meet the same requirements as standards in the core areas of English, math, science and social studies (i.e., the st...
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Signed into law 07/2009 |
Ohio | P-16 or P-20 |
P-12 | Ten-Year Strategic Plan
H.B. 1 - Section 3301.122
Creates new section 3301.122. Directs the state superintendent, by December 2009, to develop a ten-year strategic plan aligned with the strategic plan for higher education developed by the chancellor of the board of regents, and to submit the plan to the legis...
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Signed into law 07/2009 |
Ohio | Postsecondary Faculty |
Postsec. | Faculty Members and Instruction; Exercise of Authority by Boards of Trustees
H.B. 1 - Section 371.30.10(C) and (D)
Requires boards of trustees of state-assisted institutions of higher education to ensure that faculty members devote a proper and judicious part of their work week to the actual instruction of students. Specifies that total class credit hours of production per...
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Signed into law 07/2009 |
Ohio | Postsecondary Finance |
Postsec. | Study on Identifying At-Risk College Students
H.B. 1 - Section 371.20.95(A)
Section 371.20.95 (A): In FY 2010, directs the chancellor of the board of regents, in consultation with representatives of state colleges and universities, to conduct a study to identify the socioeconomic, demographic, academic, personal and other factors that...
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Signed into law 07/2009 |
Ohio | Postsecondary Finance |
Community College,
Postsec. | Using "Success Points" in Funding Community Colleges
H.B. 1 - Section 371.20.95(C) and 371.20.80(D)(1)
Section 371.20.95(C): Directs the chancellor, in consultation with representatives of state community colleges, to conduct a study on the use of "success points" in allocating appropriations to community colleges in FY 2011. Requires the study to identify "suc...
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Signed into law 07/2009 |
Ohio | Postsecondary Finance |
Postsec. | Postsecondary Allocations
H.B. 1 - Section 371.20.80(D)(5), (6), (7), (8), (9), Section 371.20.80(E), (G)
[OF NOTE: Section 371.20.80(D)(5): Of specified postsecondary appropriation items, requires 5% of the FY 2010 appropriation and 10% of the FY 2011 appropriation for university main campuses to be reserved for support of associate, baccalaureate, master's and p...
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Signed into law 07/2009 |
Ohio | Postsecondary Finance |
Postsec. | Funding for Doctoral Programs
H.B. 1 - Section 371.20.95(B) and 371.20.80(D)(2)
Section 371.20.95(B): Directs the chancellor, in consultation with representatives of state universities, to conduct a study on the effectiveness and appropriateness of funding for doctoral programs through the doctoral set-aside as allocated in H.B. 1. Provid...
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Signed into law 07/2009 |
Ohio | Special Education--Finance |
P-12 | Taxing District to Jointly Fund Special Education Services
H.B. 1 - Section 3313.83
Authorizes two or more school boards in a county with a population greater than 1,200,000 to create a regional student education district (special taxing district) to fund special education and behavioral health services for students and their immediate famili...
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Signed into law 07/2009 |
Ohio | Standards |
P-12 | New State Standards and Model Curricula
H.B. 1 - Section 3301.079, 3301.0718(A)
Section 3301.079: Directs the state board of education, by June 30, 2010 and at least once every five years thereafter, to adopt statewide K-12 academic standards in English language arts, math, science and social studies, with emphasis on coherence, focus and...
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Signed into law 07/2009 |
Ohio | Teaching Quality--Induction Programs and Mentoring |
P-12 | Model Peer Assistance and Review Program
H.B. 1 - Section 265.70.50
By December 31, 2010, directs the department of education, in consultation with the educator standards board, to develop a model peer assistance and review program, and to develop recommendations to expand the use of peer assistance and review programs through...
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Signed into law 07/2009 |
Rhode Island | Finance--District |
P-12 | Grants, Gifts and Donations
S.B. 944
Allows school districts, school departments and school committees to accept grants, gifts and donations from individuals, entities and governmental subdivisions for purposes as specified by the donor and to keep such funds in a restricted receipt account inter...
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Signed into law 07/2009 |
Wisconsin | Teaching Quality--Unions/Collective Bargaining |
P-12 | Planning Time for Teachers
A.B. 95
Relates to the Municipal Employment Relations Act (MERA); provides for school districts and preparation time for teachers. From Legislative Reference Bureau analysis: This bill creates a new mandatory subject of collective bargaining under MERA in school distr...
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Signed into law 06/2009 |
Florida | Postsecondary Institutions--Community/Technical Colleges |
Postsec.,
Community College | Designates the Division of Florida Colleges as a division of the Department of Education
S.B. 2682
The bill implements some of the recommendations of the Florida College System Task Force and the State College Pilot Project. In particular, the bill:
1. Renames the Division of Community Colleges within the Department of Education as the Division of Florida ...
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Signed into law 06/2009 |
Maine | Governance |
P-12 | Review of State Board of Education Duties
H.B. 900
The Department of Education will review the powers and duties of the State Board of Education and prepare legislation to transfer the powers and duties of the board to other agencies in anticipation of the dissolution of the board. The Department of Education ...
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Signed into law 06/2009 |
Maine | Special Education |
P-12 | Program Model for Children with Autism
S.B. 461
Directs the Department of Education to develop a program model for children with autism spectrum disorder to be used statewide in elementary and secondary schools and submit its report to the Joint Standing Committee on Education and Cultural Affairs by Decemb...
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Signed into law 06/2009 |
Maine | STEM |
P-12 | STEM Initiatives Review
S.B. 412
Directs the Department of Education to collect information on science, technology, engineering and math initiatives in consultation with public and private partnerships, businesses, pilot projects and nonprofit and other organizations that are already working ...
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Signed into law 06/2009 |
North Carolina | Governance--School Boards |
P-12 | Unlawful for School Board Member to Willfully Discharge Duties
H.B. 43
Makes it unlawful for a school board member to willfully fail to discharge the duties of the office; adds school board members to list of city and county officials for which willful discharge of duties was already unlawul; provides for removal from office. htt...
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Signed into law 06/2009 |
Tennessee | Bilingual/ESL |
P-12 | We Want to Learn English
S.B. 1745
Requires the Department of Labor and Workforce Development (LWFD), in conjunction with the Department of Education (DOE), to establish and administer a grant program known as the "We Want to Learn English Initiative" for the purpose of providing resources for ...
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Signed into law 06/2009 |
Texas | Accountability |
P-12 | Special Accreditation Investigations
H.B. 3 - Section 59 - Part II
Adds to circumstances under which special accreditation investigations must be conducted. Directs the commissioner to authorize special accreditation investigations to be conducted when:
(1) A significant pattern of decreased academic performance has develope...
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Signed into law 06/2009 |
Texas | Adult Basic Education |
P-12,
Postsec.,
Community College | Increasing Workforce in High-Demand and "Green" Occupations
H.B. 1935 and H.B. 3, Section 64
Establishes the Jobs and Education for Texans (JET) grant program and fund to award grants to public junior colleges and public technical institutes, and to eligible nonprofit organizations to:
(1) Develop or support nonprofit organizations' programs that pre...
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Signed into law 06/2009 |
Texas | Assessment |
P-12 | Student Assessment Data Portal
H.B. 3 - Section 48 and 49
Deletes provision that education Internet portal provides secure access to student assessment data. Amends 32.258 to direct the state education agency to create a student assessment data portal for use by school districts, teachers, parents, students and publi...
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Signed into law 06/2009 |
Texas | At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention) |
P-12,
Community College,
Postsec. | Charter Schools Run by Two-Years
H.B. 1423
Allows public junior colleges (two-year institutions) to be granted charters to operate open-enrollment charter schools, including on the junior college campus. Specifies criteria junior college must meet to be granted a charter, including that the charter's e...
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Signed into law 06/2009 |
Texas | Finance--Resource Efficiency |
P-12 | Financial Accountability
H.B. 3 - Section 59 - Part III
Former law called for the creation of a single financial accountability rating system. New enactment directs the commissioner, in consultation with the comptroller, to develop separate financial accountability rating systems for districts and charter schools t...
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Signed into law 06/2009 |
Texas | High School--College Readiness |
P-12 | Diplomas for Students Demonstrating Early Readiness for College
H.B. 3 - Section 32
Requires any research university that chooses to participate in the pilot program to:
(1) Post on its Web site the benchmarks students must meet (1) in subject areas for which the higher education coordinating board has adopted college readiness standards, (2)...
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Signed into law 06/2009 |
Texas | Integrated Services/Full-Service Schools |
P-12 | Council on Children and Families
S.B. 1646
Creates the Council on Children and Families to coordinate the state's health, education and human services systems to ensure that children and families have access to needed services, and improve efficiency in the provision of services. Establishes council me...
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Signed into law 06/2009 |
Texas | Middle School |
P-12 | High School Innovation Grant Initiative
H.B. 2263
Extends the high school innovation grant initiative to middle and junior high schools. http://www.legis.state.tx.us/tlodocs/81R/billtext/pdf/HB02263F.pdf...
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Signed into law 06/2009 |
Texas | Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Postsec.,
Community College | Information on College Costs and Financial Aid
H.B. 2504 - Section 3 and S.B. 1764
Directs the higher education coordinating board to prescribe uniform standards to ensure that information on the cost of attending Texas public higher education institutions is available in a manner that is readily accessible and easily understandable to prosp...
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Signed into law 06/2009 |
Texas | Reading/Literacy |
P-12 | Participation in Teacher Reading Academy
H.B. 3 - Section 24
Amends action that triggers a teacher's participation in a teacher reading academy. Former provision required teacher to participate in reading academy if teacher provided instruction in reading, math, science or social studies to students in any grades 6-8 an...
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Signed into law 06/2009 |
Texas | School/District Structure/Operations--Food Service |
P-12 | Interagency Farm-to-School Coordination Task Force
S.B. 1027
Establishes an interagency farm-to-school coordination task force to promote a healthy diet for schoolchildren and the business of small to mid-sized local farms and ranches. Directs the task force to develop and implement a plan to facilitate the availability...
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Signed into law 06/2009 |
Texas | Textbooks and Open Source |
P-12,
Postsec.,
Community College | Open-Source Textbooks
H.B. 2488
Defines open-source textbooks as textbooks downloadable from the Internet at no cost to the student. Requires districts and charter schools to annually certify that, for each subject in the required curriculum and all grade levels, the district provides every ...
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Signed into law 06/2009 |
West Virginia | Student Achievement |
P-12,
Postsec. | School Innovation Zones Act
H.B. 109A
Establishes school innovation zones to improve educational performance; authorizes the State Board of Education to designate such zones in schools, groups of schools, departments, or subdivisions of a school or schools; provides for approval of a zone plan by ...
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Signed into law 05/2009 |
Alabama | Leadership |
P-12 | Superintendent Professional Development and Induction
S.B. 262
Directs the School Superintendents of Alabama to administer a professional development program for school superintendents of education. Requires the program to draw guidance from the National Staff Development Council definition of "professional development." ...
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Signed into law 05/2009 |
Florida | Postsecondary Online Instruction |
Postsec.,
Community College | Florida Distance Learning Consortium
H.B. 7121
Establishes the Florida Distance Learning Consortium to facilitate collaboration among public postsecondary educational institutions in use of distance learning; provides duties of consortium; defines distance learning course for purposes of assessing distance...
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Signed into law 05/2009 |
Minnesota | High School |
P-12,
Postsec.,
Community College | High School-to-College Developmental Transition Programs
S.B. 2083
Establishes a program to offer research-based high school-to-college programs to prepare students for college. Requires an evaluation for participating programs with a working group to develop methods and timelines for data collection and analysis of program e...
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Signed into law 05/2009 |
Nebraska | Finance--Taxes/Revenues |
Postsec. | Research Tax Credits
L.B. 555
Allows any business firm which makes expenditures in research and experimental activities as defined in section 174 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, on the campus of a college or university in this state or at a facility owned by a college or ...
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Signed into law 05/2009 |
North Dakota | At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention) |
P-12 | Student Performance Strategist
H.B. 1400 - Sec. 8, Strategist
Beginning with the 2010-11 school year, each district must have available one full-time equivalent student performance strategist for every four hundred students in average daily membership in kindergarten through grade three. Each school district shall submit...
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Signed into law 05/2009 |
North Dakota | Finance--State Budgets/Expenditures |
P-12 | Stabilization Fund Dollars
H.B. 1400 - Stabilization Fund Dollars
Requires the superintendent of public instruction to notify the superintendent and board of each school district in the state, by certified mail, that any education stabilization fund dollars
received by the district as a result of the American Recovery and Re...
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Signed into law 05/2009 |
North Dakota | P-16 or P-20 |
P-12 | Commission on Education Improvement
H.B. 1400 - Sec. 40, Commission on Education Improvement
Amends the membership and duties of the North Dakota Commission on Education Improvement. The commission is supposed to:
a. Examine the current system of delivering and financing public elementary and secondary education and shall develop recommendations addr...
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Adopted 05/2009 |
Ohio | Career/Technical Education |
P-12 | Career/Technical Education Programs
OAC 3301-61-03
Amends criteria for secondary workforce development (career/technical education) programs. Requires all workforce development programs to be approved by the state department of education. Specifies that technical and academic course offerings in state-approved...
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Signed into law 05/2009 |
Oklahoma | Accountability |
P-12 | Performance Review for Districts with High Poverty
S.B. 473
Authorizes the Office of Accountability to conduct a performance review program to determine the effectiveness and efficiency of the budget and operations of a school districts that has a district student eligibility rate for free or reduced-price meals under ...
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Signed into law 05/2009 |
Oklahoma | State Longitudinal Data Systems |
P-12,
Postsec.,
Community College | Educational Accountability Reform Act
S.B. 222
Creates the Educational Accountability Reform Act. Establishes the P-20 Data Coordinating Council and revolving fund; provides for membership, appointment, designation of officers, quorum, staff support, etc. . The Council is to advise the State Department of ...
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Signed into law 05/2009 |
Oregon | Background Checks |
P-12 | Background Checks
H.B. 2062
Requires applicant for position with school district to submit list of current and past employers and to provide written authorization and release of information and documentation from those employers; requires school district to conduct background check on ap...
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Adopted 04/2009 |
Alabama | Leadership |
P-12 | Leadership Development
290-4-3
Repeals and rewrites rules regarding leadership development. Includes references to both the Alabama Definition of Professional Development and the Alabama Standards for Professional Development. Introduces the Office of Leadership Development, outlines the re...
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Signed into law 04/2009 |
Iowa | Counseling/Guidance |
P-12,
Postsec.,
Community College | Articulation from High School to College and from Community College to Four-Year
H.B. 815
Adds several new subsections of law. Requires development and implementation of a plan to provide, at least twice annually to all principals and guidance counselors employed by school districts and accredited nonpublic schools, notice describing how students c...
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Signed into law 04/2009 |
Maryland | STEM |
P-12 | Digital Content Access and Connecting STEM Content to Initiatives
S.B. 235
Establishes the MDK12 Digital Library for the purpose of providing access to digital content for K-12 students and educators, improving school library programs with digital technologies, and connecting digital content with State science, technology, engineerin...
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Signed into law 03/2009 |
Kentucky | Assessment--Accommodations |
P-12 | Assessment of Exceptional Students
S.B. 1 Section 20
Requires the state department of education and state board, as they revise the state assessment and accountability system for implementation in 2011-12, to facilitate an extensive review of how exceptional children's needs are being met through the required st...
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Signed into law 03/2009 |
Kentucky | Assessment--Formative/Interim |
P-12,
Postsec. | Postsecondary Remediation and College Completion
S.B. 1 Section 21
Provides that the general assembly finds the continuing high rates of postsecondary remediation totally unacceptable and an unwarranted additional expense to the state, students and parents who expect that completion of high school coursework should lead to su...
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Signed into law 03/2009 |
Kentucky | High School--College Readiness |
P-12 | Core Content Standards for Introductory College Courses
S.B. 1 Section 15
Within 30 days from the effective date of this Act, requires each postsecondary institution in the state to plan and implement a process to develop core academic content standards for reading and mathematics for introductory courses. Specifies that the process...
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Signed into law 03/2009 |
Kentucky | P-16 or P-20 |
P-12 | Revision of State Standards
S.B. 1 Section 2(2) and 13
Directs the Kentucky Department of Education, in collaboration with the Council on Postsecondary Education (CPE), to implement a process to revise the state content standards in reading, language arts including writing, mathematics, science, social studies, ar...
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Signed into law 03/2009 |
Kentucky | Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure |
P-12 | Improving Writing
S.B. 1 Section 17
Provides that whereas the quality of writing instruction is directly related to how well teachers are prepared in their teacher preparation programs and how confident they are in the writing process; and whereas some teachers have expressed tentativeness and d...
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Signed into law 03/2009 |
Kentucky | Teaching Quality--Professional Development |
P-12 | Teacher Professional Development
S.B. 1 Section 8
Adds provision that teacher professional development programs must be based on teacher needs. Makes inclusion of specific components in teacher professional development programs mandatory instead of optional. Adds the following areas of mandatory teacher profe...
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Adopted 03/2009 |
Ohio | Choice of Schools--Charter Schools |
P-12 | Innovative Education Pilot Programs
OAC 3301-46-01
Authorizes the governing board of any educational service center or the administrative authority of any chartered nonpublic school to submit an application for exemption from state policies in order to implement a proposed innovative education pilot program. A...
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Adopted 03/2009 |
Ohio | Governance--Deregulation/Waivers/Home Rule |
P-12 | Exemptions from Statutes/Rules
OAC 3301-46-01
Authorizes the governing board of any educational service center, or the administrative authority of any chartered nonpublic school to submit an application to the state board for an exemption from specific statutes and/or rules in order to implement a propose...
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Adopted 03/2009 |
Utah | Counseling/Guidance |
P-12 | Comprehensive Counseling and Guidance Program
R277-462
Amends definition of Comprehensive Counseling and Guidance Program ("Program") to add reference to informing and involving parents. Adds definition of counselor-to-student ratio.
Defines Student Education Occupation Plan (SEOP) as a developmentally organized ...
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Signed into law 03/2009 |
Utah | Teaching Quality--Compensation and Diversified Pay--Pay-for-Performance |
P-12 | Elementary School Performance-based Compensation Pilot Program
H.B. 328
Establishes the Performance-based Compensation Pilot Program. Directs the state board of education to solicit and award grants on a competitive basis to districts and charter schools to develop and implement performance-based compensation plans for elementary ...
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Signed into law 03/2009 |
Virginia | Postsecondary |
Postsec.,
Community College | Students Called to Active Military Duty
H.B. 1810
Provides that in certain circumstances a student called to active military duty during a course at an institution of higher education may still receive full course
Directs governing boards of each public institution of higher education to implement policies t...
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Signed into law 03/2009 |
Virginia | Students |
P-12 | Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children
H.B. 1727
Establishes a compact to remove barriers to educational success imposed on children of military families because of frequent moves and deployment of their parents.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?091+ful+HB1727ER...
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Adopted 02/2009 |
Kentucky | Assessment--Formative/Interim |
P-12 | Extended School Services
704 KAR 3:390
Establishes requirements for extended school services. Defines "A5 program" as an alternative program with no attendance boundaries, serving dropouts returning to an alternate educational environment, potential dropouts, discipline problem students, nontraditi...
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Adopted 02/2009 |
Ohio | Economic/Workforce Development |
Postsec. | Co-Op/Internship Program
OAC 3333-1-63
Establishes the Co-op/internship program. Defines "Cooperative education program" as a partnership between students, institutions of higher education and employers that formally integrates students' academic study with work experience in cooperating employer o...
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Adopted 01/2009 |
Illinois | Postsecondary |
Postsec. | Program Approval
23 IAC 1030.10, 1030.20, 1030.30, 1030.60, 1030.70, 1030.80,1030.ILLUSTRATION A
Provides exemptions from program approval requirements. Requires any institution offering online instruction where the core academic support services, including admission, evaluation, assessment, registration, financial aid, academic scheduling, and faculty hi...
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