EDUCATION - ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY

Bills Assigned to Committee
EDUCATION - ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY
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: Changes notice and resolution of teacher certification disciplinary actions; requires certain personnel to report certain acts by certificate holders.

: Expands use of free textbook fund to include computers and software.

: Revises requirements for promotion of elementary pupils based on reading ability and requires schools to give additional reading instruction to certain students; revises other education laws.

: Modifies organ and tissue donation law and allows for organ and tissue donation instructions in grades nine and ten.

: Allows districts serving nonresident students through alternative education to count such students as resident pupils for state aid purposes.

: Creates a special education parental training program.

: Changes when new school board takes office.

: Regulates employment of noncertificated school personnel.

: Allows school boards to permit posting of certain historical documents in schools, regardless of religious content.

: Limits the psychiatric evaluation of students.

: Requires school districts to adopt indexed salary schedules.

: Mandates that the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education provide copies of academic assessments to school districts free of charge.

: Amends the manner in which assessed valuation is treated in the school foundation formula.

: Creates the business dropout abatement program tax credit.

: Encourages school districts to adopt service learning programs.

: Increases minimum teacher salaries.

: Changes qualification, election and districting for St. Louis school board.

: Allows certain school districts to make additional transfers of operating funds for capital projects.

: Revises repayment of state school aid overpayment for certain districts.

: Authorizes school districts to impose a surcharge on their residents' income taxes for education and on retail sales taxes.

: Expands the laws and funds for alternative education programs.

: Allows school districts to adopt prayer time or personal reflection time into the daily curriculum.

: Allows debt repayment time extensions to financially stressed school districts.

: Allows school districts to have truant officers and creates penalty for allowing truants to loiter on business premises.

: Establishes mandatory observance of Veterans' Day in state schools.

: Prohibits the overfunding of entitlements in the school foundation formula unless all categoricals are fully funded first.

: Eliminates duplicative and obsolete education provisions.

: Creates the pilot project challenge scholarship program.

: Includes military-issued guardianships for purposes of student residency requirements for school districts.

: Ensures timely payments of early childhood screening reimbursements to school districts.

: Establishes additional funding for Parents as Teachers programs that are not currently at the state average.

: Allows school boards to set their own calendars.

: Establishes reciprocal certification for teachers in adjacent states.

: Makes alternative education grants permanently renewable.

: Designates February as Missouri Lifelong Learning Month.

: Establishes the Kansas City Education Renewal Commission.

: Revises the foundation formula.

: Creates the "School Building Property Tax Relief Fund".

: Eliminates the limit on the school year start date.

: Allows for "teacher shortage districts", which could employ up to twenty five percent noncertificated instructional personnel.

: Establishes the year 2000 classroom fund and transfers certain gaming proceeds to such fund.

: Allows accredited school districts to become waiver districts subject to charter school law as opposed to general school law.

: Creates a categorical add-on for school violence prevention programs.

: Creates a suicide prevention grant program, to be administered by the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education.

: Allows additional expenditures for school safety and security equipment.

: Includes expulsion from private school in existing law limiting the re-enrollment of previously expelled students.

: Establishes a blue ribbon award for school safety and identifies the least safe schools for remediation.

: Expands the causes for mandatory suspension or expulsion of students.

: Establishes a pilot school uniform project in one school district.

: Adds a crime reporting facet to the school facilities and safety portion of the Missouri School Improvement Program.

: Requires the proceeds of forfeitures to be used for the creation and operation of safe schools and crime prevention programs.

: Includes philosophical beliefs as a basis for refusing child immunizations.

: Makes late registration of students for school a class C misdemeanor.

: Increases available amount of school funding per pupil.

: Requires gambling boat proceeds deposited in an education fund to be distributed on a per pupil basis.

: Establishes reciprocal inclusion in career ladder plans for teachers from other states.

: Adds CPI adjustment to "hold harmless" school districts' state aid calculation.

: Establishes the Seniors Teaching Students Program Act.

: Changes compulsory school attendance age from sixteen to eighteen.

: Makes "recalculated levy" for school districts permanent, revises line 14 categorical.

: Repeals multiyear student-teacher grade-level "looping".

: Establishes reciprocal certification for teachers from other states.

: Prohibits failed school bond issues from being resubmitted to the voters unless twelve months have passed since such failure.

: Establishes a national teacher certification bonus program and fund.

: Raises minimum teacher salaries to twenty-two thousand dollars; establishes a fund to make up the difference between existing minimums and the new amount.

: Excludes voluntary transfer students from the foundation formula in hold-harmless school districts.

: Establishes a national teacher certification bonus program.

: Requires a minimum annual transfer of certain state sales tax revenues in an amount equal to three million dollars or more to the video instructional development and educational opportunity fund.

: Prohibits the scoring of assessment tests of English as a second language students until five years of education with English as a first language have passed.

: Changes school financing.

: Allows charter schools anywhere in the state and requires charter schools to meet same accreditation standards as other schools.

: Gives school districts the discretion to allow early entrance into kindergarten.

: Changes substitute teacher certification.

: Allows for optional year-round school calendars.

: Establishes a teacher cadet program.

: Changes the mandatory school attendance age to seventeen.

: Creates the Missouri Incentive Award program for schools showing assessment and attendance improvement.

: Establishes the families in education incentive grant program.

: Creates the office of school disciplinary hearings.

: Allows teachers with life certificates to obtain additional certification in certain circumstances.

: Allows for separate school district zoning ordinances in certain counties.

: Allows college, university or community college charter school sponsors to receive support funds, provided the sponsors perform certain duties.

: Creates grants for public school teachers seeking to purchase homes in the districts in which they teach.

: Encourages and assists paraprofessional teaching assistants in becoming professional teachers in certain districts.

: Establishes a Public School Beautification Adoption Program, subject to appropriations.

: Excludes voluntary transfer students from the foundation formula.

: Allows City of St. Louis employees, required to live in the city, to enroll children in the St. Louis County special school district without paying tuition.

: Determines the method of calculating increases to available per-pupil funding based on the guaranteed tax base.

: Changes the manner of state aid payments to charter schools in school district buildings in desegregation districts.

: Increases the mandatory school attendance age to seventeen.

: Makes various changes to charter school law.

: Creates an income tax credit for employers who grant employees paid leave to volunteer at public schools or to attend school sponsored functions of their children.

: Enacts optional minimum teacher salary requirements.

: Allows recall elections for all school board members.

: Creates a collaborative action team pilot program in the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education.

: Allows a certain school district to perform an additional fund transfer.

: Allows charter schools in the city of Springfield.

: Prohibits school board members from filing for re-election if they have not completed orientation and training.

: Creates crime of trespass on a school bus and requires phone in bumper stickers for school buses.

: Changes the school building revolving fund.

: Enacts the Reading Instruction Act.

: Permits termination of teacher or school employee contracts if the teacher or employee admits to illegal possession or use of a controlled substance.

: Creates a new teacher recruitment and mentoring grant program in the department of elementary and secondary education.

: Allows additional fund transfers in a certain school district.

: Establishes opportunity scholarships for students in unaccredited or academically deficient schools.

: Establishes an office of deaf education.

: Increases the state sales tax by one cent to be used for school purposes and requires a roll-back of property taxes collected for school purposes.

: Enacts the outstanding public schools accountability act.

: Requests the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education to incorporate the Lewis and Clark expedition into school curricula.

: Proposes constitutional amendment to repeal provisions prohibiting use of public funds for religious purpose.

: Proposes a constitutional amendment to require school district bonds to pass by simple majority at certain elections.

: Proposes constitutional amendment requiring that State Board of Education be elected.

: Revises repayment of state school aid overpayemnt for Francis Howell School District.

: Revises allowed uses of County School Fund revenues.

: Revises Criminal Activity Forfeiture Act.

: Governor shall declare February as Missouri Lifelong Learning Month.

: Revises state school aid to "hold harmless" districts.

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