EDUCATION, ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY

Missouri House of Representatives
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EDUCATION, ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY
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: Prohibits open containers of alcohol on school property.

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: Allows school boards to permit posting of certain historical documents in schools, regardless of religious content.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

: Limits access to student records.

: 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.

: Changes unlawful use of firearms law.

: 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.

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

: 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.

: Requires notification to schools when juvenile pupils are charged with a crime as an adult.

: Designates February as Missouri Lifelong Learning Month.

: Establishes the Kansas City Education Renewal Commission.

: Raises the age for compulsory school attendance to eighteen and conditions driving privileges upon school enrollment.

: Prohibits certain funds from being paid to counselors not licensed in the state.

: 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.

: Creates an income tax credit of up to two hundred dollars per taxpayer for donations of high technology equipment to school districts.

: 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.

: Includes juveniles charged as adults in the disclosure to superintendents of criminal proceedings against pupils.

: Increases the penalty for unlawful use of weapons in schools.

: 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.

: 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.

: Prohibits state agencies from adopting rules requiring state certification from a public school program in certain cases.

: 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.

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

: Establishes a national teacher certification bonus program.

: Changes MAP science test to grade 5.

: 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.

: Creates an income tax credit for cash donations to school districts for high technology equipment or librarians, or approved non-cash donations for high technology equipment.

: 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.

: 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.

: Requires one cent of the total sales tax on motor vehicles to go to the school district trust fund.

: Makes various changes to charter school law.

: Regulates manufactured housing used for educational purposes.

: 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.

: Amends various school safety provisions.

: 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.

: Expands the application of the tax credit available for net expenditures made for the participation of students in a sponsorship and mentoring program.

: Allows additional fund transfers in a certain school district.

: Requires programs receiving certain Gaming Commission Fund grants through DESE or DSS to be licensed pursuant to chapter 210, RSMo.

: Adopts mandatory health assessments for public school students.

: Creates an income tax credit for parents of children determined by an institution of higher learning to be reading at their grade level.

: 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.

: Increases the number of days that retired teachers may substitute in a school year from sixty to seventy-five days.

: Enacts the outstanding public schools accountability act.

: Moves mandatory age for starting school down to age five.

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

: Establishes a committee to study the phenomenon of school-age children who are prescribed behavior control medication.

: Urges the U.S. Congress to enact legislation regarding the disciplinary provisions of IDEA.

: Requests the state treasurer and the department of revenue to deposit sales tax revenue derived from the rate of one cent on the dollar from motor vehicle sales into the School District Trust Fund.

: Proposes constitutional amendment to change distribution of forfeiture proceeds.

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

: Authorizes state income tax deduction for school tuition, attendence fees, supplies and transportation costs.

: Includes charter school student performance in school district review.

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

: Regulates Internet access for minors in public libraries and schools.

: Establishes grant program for improving mathematics instructions.

: Creates crime of trespass on a school bus.

: Establishes Year 2000 classroom fund with gaming proceeds.

: Authorizes state income tax credit for cash contributions to school tuition organizations.

: Authorizes state income tax deduction for school tuition, attendence fees, supplies and transportation costs.

: Establishes tax credit for donation of high technology equipment to schools.

: Revises outstanding schools waivers.

: Revises funding to public community colleges.

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

: Establishes grant program for improving mathematics instructions.

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

: Creates state income tax credit for donations to scholarship charitable organizations.

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

: Establishes pilot program of Urban Early Compulsory School Attendance.

: Makes West Plains campus of Southwest Missouri State University an eligible school for all student aid established by state law.

: Requires state colleges and universities to admit certain high school graduates.

: 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.

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

: Establishes penalty for failure to report video sales tax revenue.

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

: Relating to ad valorem property tax collections.

: Revises minimum salaries for public school teachers.

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

: Revises allowed uses of County School Fund revenues.

: Revises alternative school laws.

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

: Raises maximum benefit in Public School Retirement System.

: Revises Non-Teacher Retirement System.

: Adds additional eligible sponsors for charter schools.

: Governor shall declare February as Missouri Lifelong Learning Month.

: Creates felony of intimidation of an athletic coach, manager or sports official.

: Establishes Professional Educators' Standards and Practices Board.

: Establishes grant program for improving mathematics instructions.

: Revises obsolete education provisions.

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

: Establishes grant program for improving mathematics instructions.

: Provides state aid to school districts educating certain disabled students.

: Establishes State Public Charter School Board.

: Enacts various school safety provisions.

: Requires National Guard to establish pilot public school program.

: Raises compulsory attendance age to 17 years.

: 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.

: Allows citizens to register their vehicles, pay taxes, and access various agency services via the Internet.

: Expressly states that one cent of the total sales tax shall be deposited to the credit of the School District Trust Fund, including one cent of the total sales tax derived from motor vehicles sales.

: Revises state school aid formula.

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

: Requires General Assembly to revise state aid revenues and distribution.

: Allows approval of school bond issues by simple majority.

: Allows approval of school bond issues by simple majority.

: Criminal activity forfeiture proceeds shall be divided between schools and law enforcement.

: Reduces maximum amount of school levy without voter approval to $1.25 per $100 assessed valuation.

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Missouri House of Representatives
Last Updated September 11, 2000 at 2:52 pm