EDUCATION - ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY

Bills Assigned to Committee
EDUCATION - ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY
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: Revises the method of distribution of certain gambling and lottery funds to schools.

: Raises the minimum amount of school construction projects requiring competitive bids.

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

: Requires school board members in certain districts to be residents and registered voters in such district for one year preceding their election.

: Prohibits gender discrimination in public schools.

: Allows school board members in any school district to be removed by the voters in a recall election.

: Creates a deduction from Missouri adjusted gross income for qualified education expenses.

: Prohibits use of corporal punishment in all school districts.

: Revises requirements for opening date of school year.

: Revises election process for members of the Kansas City School Board.

: Allows the school district of Kansas City to start school prior to September 1.

: Requires State Board of Education to promote the adoption of service-learning programs and projects among school districts.

: Revises election process for members of the Kansas City School Board.

: Requires school board members to complete orientation and training and provide proof to election authority prior to filing for reelection.

: Requires foreign language instruction in every public elementary school.

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

: Requires public schools to perform the Pledge of Allegiance or the national anthem daily.

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

: Allows school districts to impose an income tax of one percent if approved by the voters.

: Allows a tax credit for teaching- related out-of-pocket expenditures for teachers.

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

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

: Revises determination of eligibility to receive state aid for school districts.

: Requires State Board of Education to appoint to board of arbitration current or retired circuit or associate circuit judges from circuit other than where dispute has arisen.

: Changes notice and resolution of teacher certification disciplinary actions; requires certain personnel to report certain acts by certificate holders.

: Expands the laws and funds for alternative education programs.

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

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

: Requires school districts to adopt indexed salary schedules.

: Provides bases for State Board of Education to refuse to issue or renew certificates to teach.

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

: Revises the qualifications, election, and districting of the members of the City of St. Louis School Board.

: Changes the name of the Missouri Commission for the Deaf to the Missouri Commission for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing.

: Establishes the Missouri Family Training Program for Special Education.

: 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.

: Allows school districts to enact an income tax.

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

: Allows a tax credit for qualified contributions to schools.

: Requires school board approval of tax increment financing plans for areas with residential or multifamily properties.

: Establishes teacher salary supplements for National Board teacher certification.

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

: Limits the psychiatric and psychological evaluation of students.

: Allows eligible school districts to make transfers from the incidental fund to the capital projects fund.

: Establishes the Professional Educators' Standards and Practices Act and board.

: Requires public schools and public institutions of higher education to recite the Pledge of Allegiance at the beginning of each school day.

: Allows philosophical beliefs to be a basis for objection to required school immunizations.

: Creates a character education grant program and fund.

: Establishes the "School Building Property Tax Relief Fund", to be funded by a sales tax increase, with an accompanying referendum clause.

: Mandates weekly recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance for school children.

: Creates a tax credit for educational readiness test scores and purchase of educational readiness materials.

: Revises funding of grants awarded pursuant to the A+ program.

: Requires Pledge of Allegiance to be recited in all public schools during at least one class no less than once per week.

: Creates a public school beautification adoption program.

: Creates the "Missouri Urban Tutoring Core Pilot Program".

: Requires local school boards of each school district to establish a written policy prohibiting bullying.

: Creates the "Missouri Special Education Teachers' Loan Repayment Assistance Program".

: Revises terms of service for members of the governing council of the special school district in St. Louis County.

: Changes the name of the Missouri Commission for the Deaf to the Missouri Commission for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing.

: Amends the definition of American Sign Language to declare it to be the native language of many deaf Missourians.

: Revises minimum teacher salaries.

: Allows recall elections in the Kansas City school district.

: Requires the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education to identify for recognition by the Governor schools demonstrating high student achievement.

: Allows display of various documents in public schools upon certain conditions.

: Raises the minimum amount of various school projects requiring minimum bids.

: Establishes procedure for termination of teachers' contracts.

: Requires school board members in certain districts to reside in the district for one year preceding their election or appointment.

: Requires school board members of certain districts to be residents of and registered voters in the district for one year preceding their election or appointment.

: Changes the name the Missouri Commission for the Deaf to the Missouri Commission for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing.

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

: Establishes the "Missouri Paraprofessional-to-Teacher Assistance Program".

: Requires Kansas City school board members running for election from a subdistrict to reside in that subdistrict but be elected at-large.

: Clarifies conditions which must be met for school districts to suspend students who have been charged with a felony.

: Expands the list of offenses for which a pupil may be prohibited from participating in a regular program of instruction to include any felony offense pursuant to chapters 566 and 567, RSMo.

: Establishes the "Motivating Parents and Children" program and fund.

: Requires the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education to conduct a study relating to economics and personal finance education.

: Reduces foundation formula deduction for local property taxes.

: Establishes the School Building Construction and Renovation Fund.

: Requires school districts to provide transportation to private and parochial students and allows them to charge fees for the service.

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

: Allows the payment of incentives to early childhood education professionals based on level of education.

: Creates the "Teacher Choice Compensation Package" and fund.

: Establishes the "Missouri Healthy Schools Fund".

: Allows school board members of any school district to be removed by the voters in a recall election.

: Requires county clerk of Jackson County to forward tax books for school districts by June 15.

: Revises language relating to challenges of a disciplinary change of placement of special education students and process of appeal of a hearing panel's decision.

: Revises provisions relating to the lapse of a school district's corporate organization.

: Allows Lincoln University to provide education to local A+ students.

: Allows public school students who complete course work in American Sign Language to receive foreign language academic credit.

: Creates the Missouri Commission on African-American Education and fund.

: Prohibits public or private schools from joining or retaining membership in any statewide activities association that fails to comply with the open records and meetings law.

: Creates the Kansas City Education Renewal Commission.

: Exempts certain transitional school districts from tax abatement and tax increment allocation financing.

: Raises compulsory age for school attendance to eighteen years of age.

: Allows school districts by majority vote of the school board to increase the mandatory age of attendance from sixteen to eighteen.

: Allows public schools to display the motto "In God We Trust" in any classroom, auditorium, and cafeteria.

: Requires foreign language instruction in every elementary school.

: Revises provisions relating to payment of tuition and transportation for students who live in a district that does not maintain an accredited school.

: Allows retired teachers to substitute for eight hundred hours per school year and still retain retirement benefits.

: Creates additional funding for textbooks and signing bonuses for rural schools.

: Requests the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education to impanel teachers to address various curriculum and testing issues relating to consumer credit.

: Urges Congress to take up and pass the proposed amendment to the U.S. Constitution to permit voluntary prayer in public schools.

: Urges the United States Congress to pass legislation for a proposed voluntary school prayer amendment to the United States Constitution.

: Creates a Joint Interim Committee on After-School Programs.

: Proposes a constitutional amendment revising the composition of the State Board of Education.

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

: Proposes a constitutional amendment increasing from 15% to 25% the limitation on indebtedness by school districts.

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

: Proposes a constitutional amendment guaranteeing public school students the right to pray.

: Mandates weekly Pledge of Allegiance in every student's class.

: Allows a temporary school administrator certificate. Modifies license and discipline procedures for teachers.

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

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

: Exempts dependents of active military personnel from the residency requirement of the A+ Schools program.

: Changes the name of the Missouri Commission for the Deaf to the Missouri Commission for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing.

: Requires school districts to coordinate special education services with public, private, and not-for-profit agencies.

: Revises Missouri Health and Educational Facilities Act to include public community junior colleges.

: Applies standards to be utilized in determining the necessity of proposed school district boundary changes.

: Relating to waivers of administrative rules for performance schools and augmented accountability standards for priority schools.

: Reconstitutes the Joint Interim Committee on Education Funding which terminated on January 15, 2002.

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