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: Creates the Missouri Essential Needs School Districts Loan Repayment Assistance Program.

: Establishes teacher salary supplements for National Board teacher certification.

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

: Expands the classes of public employees who may join labor organizations.

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

: Creates a mandatory school observance for Veterans' Day.

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

: Enacts Public Employee Due Process Act, creating procedural rights for termination, demotion, or discipline of public employees.

: Requires school districts to adopt indexed salary schedules.

: Expands minority teaching scholarships from one hundred to two hundred per year; increases the amount from $2000 to $3000 for special education teachers.

: Allows certain surviving spouses of Public School Retirement System members to receive remaining benefits.

: Enacts penalties on professional licensees who fail to repay their student loans.

: Creates faculty representative positions on all university boards of governors; makes other changes regarding higher education.

: Regulates the employment of noncertificated school employees.

: Creates a state income tax credit of up to one hundred dollars for teachers who purchase materials for their classrooms.

: Requires school districts to adopt indexed salary schedules; requires public universities to conduct student conflict resolution classes with education students.

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

: Revises law on the privacy of elementary and secondary student records, regulates disclosure of higher education disciplinary actions, and revises marriage law.

: Allows the posting of American historical documents regardless of religious content.

: Allows grants for new teacher mentoring programs.

: Establishes teacher salary supplements for National Board teacher certification.

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

: Promotes elementary and secondary community service learning programs.

: Disallows a state income tax deduction for retirement benefits to the extent the same are otherwise excluded or deducted from federal or Missouri adjusted gross income.

: Increases from 60 to 75 the number of days a retired teacher may work for the school system on a part-time or temporary basis.

: Revises school retirement systems.

: Authorizes the Public School Retirement System to establish certain benefit plans.

: Provides for charter school employees retirement benefits.

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

: Prevents substitute teachers who have withdrawn from a district's substitute list from drawing unemployment benefits from that district.

: 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.

: Recognizes American Sign Language or any other generally accepted means of communication used by the deaf community and allows it to be treated as any other foreign language.

: Increases minimum teachers' salaries.

: Establishes teacher salary supplements for National Board teacher certification.

: Increases the multiplier for Public School Retirement System benefits for members with over 30 years creditable service.

: Creates incentives for special education teachers.

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

: Revises public school retirement systems.

: Immunizes teachers in public schools from tort liability for reporting violent acts of students; and subjects the state to liability for violations of certain federal laws.

: Creates an income tax credit for up to two hundred and fifty dollars of a public school teacher's out-of-pocket expenditures for classroom materials.

: Increases minimum teachers' salaries.

: Creates state income tax credits for expenditures of teachers for instructional materials for the classroom.

: Establishes teacher salary supplements for National Board teacher certification.

: Defines rights and liabilities surrounding student publications sponsored by public schools.

: 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.

: Changes public school retirement benefits for divorced members.

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

: Immunizes teachers in public schools from tort liability for reporting violent acts of students; and subjects the state to liability for violations of certain federal laws.

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

: Allows voter approval of charter schools in a school district.

: Requires charter schools to meet all accreditation standards and requirements.

: Renames A+ School Program as "Mel Carnahan A+ Schools Program".

: Authorized countywide education sales taxes.

: Allows public school choice within a school district.

: Establishes grant program for improving mathematics instruction.

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

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

: Revises charter school laws.

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

: Establishes reciprocity for required courses in American history and institutions.

: Raises Maximum Benefit in Public School Retirement System.

: Requires school retirement systems to promulgate joint rules.

: Allows student participation in events of certain organizations during school hours.

: Modifies the Kansas City Public School Retirement System.

: Establishes Faculty Representative to the Governing Board's of Missouri's Universities.

: Revises St. Louis Public School Retirement System law.

: Establishes teacher salary supplements for National Board teacher certification.

: Allows MAP testing of special education students to occur at developmentally appropriate grade levels.

: Revises state school aid formula.

: Adopts a national teacher certification incentive program and fund.

: Revises minimum salaries for public school teachers.

: Requires school districts to adopt indexed salary schedules.

: Revises charter school laws.

: Revises charter school laws.

: Establishes an alternative teacher certification program.

: Allows A+ Schools reimbursement for attending four-year institutions.

: Requires school districts to provide phonics instruction.

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Last Updated November 26, 2001 at 11:49 am