ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION, DEPT. OF

Missouri House of Representatives
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ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION, DEPT. OF
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: Expands use of free textbook fund to include computers and software.

: 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.

: Creates the Tobacco Settlement Trust Fund.

: 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.

: Encourages school districts to adopt service learning programs.

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

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

: Expands the laws and funds for alternative education programs.

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

: Creates a state income tax credit for contributions to qualified scholarship charities beginning in tax year 2001.

: Allows local sheltered workshops to provide related services to handicapped individuals.

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

: 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.

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

: Allows school boards to set their own calendars.

: Makes alternative education grants permanently renewable.

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

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

: Revises the foundation formula.

: 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.

: Allows additional expenditures for school safety and security equipment.

: 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.

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

: 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.

: Requires persons under 18 to complete a driver's education course before receiving a driver's license.

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

: Revises the Criminal Activity Forfeiture 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 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.

: 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.

: 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.

: 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 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.

: Increases the mandatory school attendance age to seventeen.

: Makes various changes to charter school law.

: Enacts optional minimum teacher salary requirements.

: 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.

: Authorizes municipalities to regulate speed limits in areas designated as school zones without the consent of the state Highways and Transportation Commission if follows school board's recommendation

: Changes the school building revolving fund.

: Enacts the Reading Instruction Act.

: 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.

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

: Establishes an office of deaf education.

: 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 grant program for improving mathematics instructions.

: Establishes grant program for improving mathematics instructions.

: Includes charter school student performance in school district review.

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

: Establishes grant program for improving mathematics instructions.

: Creates crime of trespass on a school bus.

: Establishes Year 2000 classroom fund with gaming proceeds.

: Establishes the Tobacco Settlement Fund Commission.

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

: Revises outstanding schools waivers.

: Establishes grant program for improving mathematics instructions.

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

: 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.

: Allows suspension of TANF to families of children who do not attend school.

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

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

: Relating to charter schools.

: Relating to ad valorem property tax collections.

: Relating to ad valorem property tax collections.

: Revises minimum salaries for public school teachers.

: Revises allowed uses of County School Fund revenues.

: Revises alternative school laws.

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

: Adds additional eligible sponsors for charter schools.

: 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.

: Expands ability of boards to fund sheltered workshops, residence facilities, and other services or programs for persons with developmental disabilities.

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

: 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.

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

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Last Updated September 11, 2000 at 2:53 pm