EDUCATION - ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY

Bills Assigned to Committee
EDUCATION - ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY
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: Establishes teacher salary supplements for National Board teacher certification.

: Lowers the mandatory age for starting school from age seven to age five.

: Removes the one-year residency requirement for the Commissioner of Education.

: Revises law on reading instruction and assessment, school report cards, urban school districts, and teachers' licenses.

: Restricts the ability of persons with criminal histories from obtaining or maintaining teacher certificates.

: Allows urban school districts to start school prior to September 1st.

: Requires subdistrict residency for St. Louis school board members; clarifies that even-numbered board district members shall stand for election in April 2001.

: Repeals the mandatory September first start date for elementary and secondary schools.

: Authorizes school districts to impose a surcharge on their residents' income.

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

: Requires school districts to adopt indexed salary schedules.

: Changes the qualifications, election and districting of the members of the City of St. Louis school board.

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

: Makes "Bird Day" a state holiday, to be observed at the elementary and secondary schools of this state.

: Expands the laws and funds for alternative education programs.

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

: Makes developmentally appropriate phonics instruction available for all public primary school age students.

: Limits the psychiatric evaluation of students.

: Allows the posting of American historical documents regardless of religious content.

: Allows grants for new teacher mentoring programs.

: Adds two secondary school student members to the State Board of Education.

: Allows up to a five-day reduction, for this year only, of the minimum 174 school day requirement.

: Requires a biennial audit of the St. Louis City School District.

: Establishes teacher salary supplements for National Board teacher certification.

: Establishes subdistricts in the school district of Riverview Gardens.

: Transfers control of the Kansas City school district to the State Board of Education until new governance or reorganization procedures have been established.

: Exempts twenty-five percent of all newly approved school bond moneys from salary compliance; allocates all of such moneys to capital projects.

: Changes the method of distributing certain gambling and lottery funds to schools.

: Makes the "recalculated levy" for school districts permanent.

: Promotes elementary and secondary community service learning programs.

: Requires a one-year waiting period before resubmission of defeated school bond issues.

: Adopts a new voluntary five-level minimum teacher salary plan.

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

: Creates School Building Property Tax Relief Fund grant program for school capital improvements; funds program through incremental use of gaming proceeds.

: Increases minimum teachers' salaries.

: Establishes teacher salary supplements for National Board teacher certification.

: Creates the Parents in Education Grant Program and Fund.

: Requires foreign language instruction in every elementary school.

: Requires personal finance instruction prior to graduation for every public high school student.

: Creates incentives for special education teachers.

: Creates a character education grant program and fund.

: Adopts national certification bonuses for teachers, speech language pathologists and audiologists.

: Requires school board members to reside in the school district for one year prior to election or appointment.

: Authorizes school districts to adopt a voter-approved supplemental income tax for the purpose of reducing reliance on property taxes to sustain the school or schools of the school district.

: Creates the Kansas City Education Renewal Commission.

: Increases minimum teachers' salaries.

: Allows waiver school districts to be created in any accredited school district.

: Allows additional fund transfers in a certain school district.

: Establishes teacher salary supplements for National Board teacher certification.

: Prevents penalties from being assessed for noncompliance with certain educational expenditure ratios when noncompliance is due to utility cost increases.

: Establishes the School Building Construction and Renovation Fund.

: Establishes The Professional Educators' Standards and Practices Board.

: Provides for reciprocal interstate teacher certification and fast-track teacher certification.

: Establishes housing grant program for new public school teachers.

: Allows school districts to change the mandatory date of school attendance to seventeen.

: Adds Consumer Price Index adjustment to "hold harmless" school districts' school aid.

: Revises law concerning public reporting of certain school information.

: Provides funds for education of hearing-impaired children not attending the Missouri School for the Deaf.

: Prohibits schools offering prizes or incentives to students to sign up for subsidized lunches or to attend on certain days.

: Creates state aid payment for educating pupils with limited English proficiency.

: Creates an After School Retreat Grant Program and Fund.

: Establishes grant program to involve families and communities in education.

: Changes public school retirement benefits for divorced members.

: Prohibits scheduling of certain teacher activities during the regular school day.

: Establishes the Office of Elementary and Preschool Deaf Education.

: Requires school districts to implement CHEMIS 4.0 risk management system for handling potentially hazardous chemicals used in science classes.

: Makes Department of Elementary and Secondary Education responsible for all interdistrict transfers of funding of students not attending their home districts.

: Changes compulsory school attendance age from sixteen to eighteen.

: Allows for recall elections of school district board members.

: Creates the Missouri Family Training Program for Special Education.

: Creates a public school beautification adoption program.

: Urges Congress to fully fund the Individuals with Disabilities Act.

: Urges Congress to rescind the Windfall Elimination Provision of the Social Security Act as it applies to teachers.

: Proposes a constitutional amendment to allow school districts to pass bond issues by simple majority vote.

: Proposes a constitutional amendment to require the State Board of Education to be elected.

: Proposes a constitutional amendment increasing the number of members of the State Board of Education.

: Provides funds for education of hearing-impaired children not attending the Missouri School for the Deaf.

: Establishes a Bird Appreciation Day.

: Requires Governor to declare February as Missouri Lifelong Learning Month.

: Revises treatment of American sign language in higher education instructions.

: Allows school districts to directly enter into lease purchases with vendors.

: Revises reading assessment and reading improvement program.

: Allows sheltered workshops to file data with the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education via electronic means.

: Revises "recalculated levy" used to determine state aid for certain school districts.

: Revises charter school laws.

: Allows certain districts to transfer additional funds for capital purposes.

: Revises public school reporting requirements.

: Requests the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education to develop a model curriculum for public school instruction concerning the Lewis and Clark Expedition.

: Establishes the Joint Interim Committee on Education to study school funding issues.

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