ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION, DEPT. OF

Missouri House of Representatives
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ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION, DEPT. OF
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: Establishes teacher salary supplements for National Board teacher certification.

: 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.

: Removes gambling boat proceeds from the foundation formula and distributes them on a per-pupil basis.

: Calculates the increase to, or maintenance of, existing per-pupil funding, depending on formula funding levels and on guaranteed tax base growth.

: Excludes voluntary transfer students from the eligible pupil number used in foundation formula calculations.

: Excludes voluntary transfer students from the eligible pupil number used in foundation formula calculations.

: 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.

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

: Expands the laws and funds for alternative education programs.

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

: Provides honorary high school diplomas to World War I, World War II, and Korean War veterans who left high school before graduation to serve in the United States military.

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

: Allows grants for new teacher mentoring programs.

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

: 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.

: Repeals the limit on deductibility of federal income tax paid by individuals and replaces the revenue which will be lost by the Outstanding Schools Trust Fund from general revenue.

: Makes various changes to the laws regarding sheltered workshops.

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

: Provides honorary high school diplomas to World War I, World War II, and Korean War veterans who left high school before graduation to serve in the United States military.

: 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.

: Creates mandatory vision screenings for first grade, kindergarten and Head Start students; provides lists of sources for such exams; funds exams for certain students.

: Establishes teacher salary supplements for National Board teacher certification.

: Creates the Parents in Education Grant Program and Fund.

: Creates state income tax credits for donations of high technology equipment to school districts and for donations to school district libraries.

: Creates state income tax credits for employers who contribute to school dropout abatement programs.

: Creates the Classroom Technology Trust Fund Program and Commission; uses funds otherwise reverting to general revenue from abandoned property funds to fund such program.

: Provides honorary high school diplomas to certain World War II veterans.

: 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.

: 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.

: Creates the Classroom Trust Fund and transfers certain gaming proceeds to the fund.

: 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.

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

: 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.

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

: Allows school districts to contract with eligible new generation cooperatives for the purchase of biodiesel to fuel school buses.

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

: Requires school to provide transportation for certain nonpublic school students.

: 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.

: 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.

: Requires juvenile sex offenders to provide notice of their status as such to their school superintendent.

: Creates the Missouri Family Training Program for Special Education.

: Creates a public school beautification adoption program.

: 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.

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

: Allows the state board of education or school boards to award high school diplomas to World War II veterans.

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

: 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.

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

: Earmarks to each school district eighty dollars for each pupil in the school district who completes a driver's education course.

: 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.

: Establishes the Tobacco Settlement Fund Commission.

: Allows the state board of education or school boards to award high school diplomas to World War II veterans.

: Revises charter school laws.

: Prohibits the overfunding of entitlements in the school foundation formula unless all categoricals are fully funded first.

: Establishes pilot program of Urban Early Compulsory School Attendance.

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

: Expands ability of boards to fund sheltered workshops and other services for persons with developmental disabilities.

: Creates new reading test and summer school reading program.

: Establishes School Building Construction and Renovation Fund.

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

: 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.

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

: Requires vision exams for enrolling kindergarten and first grade students.

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

: Raises school compulsory attendance age to seventeen years.

: Adds state school aid COLA for hold harmless districts.

: Establishes teacher salary supplements for National Board teacher certification.

: Revises state school aid to certain districts.

: Revises state school aid formula.

: Adopts a national teacher certification incentive program and fund.

: Revises minimum salaries for public school teachers.

: Modifies the public school retirement system.

: Requires school districts to adopt indexed salary schedules.

: Increases property tax withholdings for collection costs; reduces state aid deduction for school tax.

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

: Changes the public school retirement benefits for divorced members.

: Revises charter school laws.

: Revises charter school laws.

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

: Requires all Kansas City school board members to be elected at-large.

: Revises public school reporting requirements.

: Establishes an alternative teacher certification program.

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

: Requires school districts to provide phonics instruction.

: Establishes planning commission for Kansas City Missouri School District.

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

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

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