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Missouri House of Representatives
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: Changes notice and resolution of teacher certification disciplinary actions; requires certain personnel to report certain acts by certificate holders.

: Allows school boards to permit posting of certain historical documents in schools, regardless of religious content.

: Requires school districts to adopt indexed salary schedules.

: Increases minimum teacher salaries.

: Allows an increase in the retirement allowance for certain retired members of the public school retirement system.

: Requires student anger management, conflict resolution and peer mediation training for all undergraduate students in education.

: Establishes reciprocal certification for teachers in adjacent states.

: Establishes the Kansas City Education Renewal Commission.

: Increases certain retirement benefits for nonteacher school employees.

: Establishes a nonvoting faculty member representative for various boards of state colleges and universities.

: 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.

: Creates a state income tax credit of up to one hundred dollars for teacher expenditures for instructional materials.

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

: Clarifies that teachers are immune from civil liability when reporting violent acts at school.

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

: Expands minority teaching scholarships from one hundred to two hundred per year and increases the amount from $2,000 to $3,000 for special education teachers.

: Establishes the Seniors Teaching Students Program Act.

: Establishes reciprocal certification for teachers from other states.

: Revises public school, non-teacher and state employee retirement systems.

: Authorizes optional retirement program for employees of regional colleges and universities.

: Establishes a national teacher certification bonus program and fund.

: Creates an income tax credit of up to two hundred dollars for teacher's purchases of instructional materials for the classroom.

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

: Establishes a national teacher certification bonus program.

: Equalizes the tax treatment of individuals receiving Public School Retirement System benefits in lieu of social security with individuals receiving PSRS benefits in the form of social security.

: Changes substitute teacher certification.

: Establishes a teacher cadet program.

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

: Allows certain surviving spouses who have remarried to receive Public School Retirement System benefits.

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

: Creates a student loan repayment assistance program for teachers working in unaccredited or provisionally accredited school districts.

: Establishes procedures encouraging English proficiency in college professors.

: Enacts optional minimum teacher salary requirements.

: Enacts the "Public Employee Due Process Act".

: Allows retired teachers to work in school districts with teacher shortages without losing retirement benefits.

: Amends various school safety provisions.

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

: 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.

: Clarifies that certain school retirees on disability are considered as receiving normal retirement allowances.

: Urges the Ethiopian government to investigate the imprisonment of UMC graduate Dr. Taye Woldesemayat.

: Includes charter school student performance in school district review.

: Establishes grant program for improving mathematics instructions.

: Modifies the retirement annuity of certain public school retirement system members.

: Requires state-sponsored professional development events to occur on scheduled days.

: School districts may create after-school and summer educational programs for at-risk youth.

: Requires charter schools to meet same accreditation standards as other schools.

: Relating to collective bargaining rights for certain public school employees.

: Relating to charter schools.

: Revises minimum salaries for public school teachers.

: Modification to the Public School Retirement System.

: Revises alternative school laws.

: Establishes grant program for improving mathematics instructions.

: Establishes grant program for improving mathematics instructions.

: Raises maximum benefit in Public School Retirement System.

: Governing boards of state colleges and universities: revises non-voting representative and confidentiality provisions.

: Adds additional eligible sponsors for charter schools.

: Establishes Professional Educators' Standards and Practices Board.

: Establishes State Public Charter School Board.

: Enacts various school safety provisions.

: Requires National Guard to establish pilot public school program.

: Revises National Guard Scholarship Program, recognizes World War II veterans, and allows the POW/MIA flag at all state buildings.

: Modifies the Kansas City Public School Retirement System.

: Revises school operations.

: Revises state school aid formula, reduces minimum levy to $1.25, increases income tax and sales tax.

: Revises state school aid formula.

: Revises PSRS and NTRS disability benefits for Social Security purposes.

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Last Updated September 11, 2000 at 2:52 pm