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Missouri House of Representatives
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: Revises the method of distribution of certain gambling and lottery funds to schools.

: Establishes guidelines for student publications, liability for school districts, and requires faculty advisors to supervise publication.

: Subjects student loan defaulters to penalties relating to professional licensing.

: Prohibits use of corporal punishment in all school districts.

: Permits additional classes of public employees to form and join labor organizations.

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

: Requires Coordinating Board for Higher Education to promote and catalogue service learning opportunities available in state institutions of higher education.

: Creates a tax credit for amounts teachers spend on teaching supplies.

: Requires foreign language instruction in every public elementary school.

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

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

: Designates the eighth day of May of each year as "Missouri Day".

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

: Regulates the employment of noncertificated school employees.

: Revises the Public Service Officer's or Employee's Child Survivor Grant Program and the Minority Teaching Scholarship Program.

: Requires school districts to adopt indexed salary schedules.

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

: Increases the number of minority teaching scholarships to be made available, and increases the amount of the scholarship for certain teachers.

: Revises the Public Service Officer's or Employee's Child Survivor Grant Program and the Minority Teaching Scholarship Program.

: Establishes teacher salary supplements for National Board teacher certification.

: Creates the Year 2002 Classroom Fund and transfers certain gaming proceeds to the fund.

: Allows the posting of American historical documents regardless of religious content.

: 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.

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

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

: Establishes the "Urban Flight Scholarship Program".

: Revises school foundation formula and enacts school accountability measures.

: Increases the benefit formula for public school retirement systems.

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

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

: Revises minimum teacher salaries.

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

: Establishes procedure for termination of teachers' contracts.

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

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

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

: Requires foreign language instruction in every elementary 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.

: Revises charter school laws.

: Revises state school aid formula.

: Establishes teacher salary supplements for National Board teacher certification.

: Establishes grant program for improving mathematics instruction.

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

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

: School boards to establish the daily observance of one minute of silence in each classroom.

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

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

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

: University of Missouri-Rolla may sponsor charter schools.

: Requires school districts to provide phonics instruction.

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

: Salary schedule credit for public school teachers.

: Allows refusal, suspension, or revocation of certain professional licenses due to student loan defaults.

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

: Creates Missouri Engineering and Science Academy and summer program for science teachers at UMR.

: Revises minimum salaries for public school teachers.

: Establishes pilot projects for the payment of incentives to early childhood education professionals.

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

: Allows eligible individuals to work part time and receive pro rata creditable service by the teacher and school retirement system.

: Alters charter school laws.

: Establishes the Missouri Statewide Initiative for Scientific Education Enhancement Program.

: Establishes an alternative teacher certification program.

: Teacher education students employed for at least two years as teacher assistants may bypass the student teaching requirement.

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Last Updated October 11, 2002 at 9:08 am