ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION, DEPT. OF

Missouri House of Representatives
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ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION, DEPT. OF
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: Revises the method of distribution of certain gambling and lottery funds to schools.

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

: Prohibits gender discrimination in public schools.

: Prohibits gender discrimination in public schools.

: Prohibits use of corporal punishment in all school districts.

: Revises requirements for opening date of school year.

: 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 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.

: Requires the implementation of a state suicide prevention plan by the Department of Health and Senior Services.

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

: 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.

: Establishes tax credit for installing pollution control devices on existing or new coal-fired electric generating plants.

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

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

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

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

: Establishes the Missouri Family Training Program for Special Education.

: Removes gambling boat proceeds from 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.

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

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

: Raises fees charged by excursion gambling boat licensees from two dollars to five dollars, with the increase to be used for state aid to school districts.

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

: Creates a character education grant program and fund.

: 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.

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

: Creates tax credits for donations by business firms to schools.

: Expands state tax credit for contributions to authorized dropout abatement pilot programs.

: Establishes the "Urban Flight Scholarship Program".

: 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 minimum teacher salaries.

: 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.

: Establishes procedure for termination of teachers' contracts.

: 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".

: 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.

: Reduces foundation formula deduction for local property taxes.

: Establishes the School Building Construction and Renovation Fund.

: 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".

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

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

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

: 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.

: 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.

: 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.

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

: Expands ability of SB 40 Boards to fund other services for persons with developmental disabilities.

: Revises charter school laws.

: Revises state school aid formula.

: Establishes School Building Construction and Renovation Fund.

: 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.

: Establishes planning commission for Kansas City Missouri School District.

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

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

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

: Establishes School Building Construction and Renovation Fund.

: University of Missouri-Rolla may sponsor charter schools.

: Requires school districts to provide phonics instruction.

: Establishes Pilot Program of Urban Early Compulsory School Attendance.

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

: Allows public schools to offer American Sign Language classes for foreign language credit.

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

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

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

: Establishes School Building Construction and Renovation Fund.

: Creates an experimental program to permit aggregate purchase of natural gas by public school districts.

: Revises minimum salaries for public school teachers.

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

: Funding for the education of certain disabled students.

: Creation of a public school beautification adoption program.

: 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 public schools to establish family literacy programs.

: Grants the State Board of Education authority to lapse certain provisionally accredited school districts.

: Alters charter school laws.

: Provides that assessments may be given to special education students at appropriate levels.

: Creates the Schools of the Future Fund and provides various funding sources for it.

: 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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