EDUCATION

Bills Assigned to Committee
EDUCATION
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: Exempts certain transitional school districts from tax abatement and tax increment allocation financing.

: Revises requirements relating to opening date for school terms.

: Allows Missouri Southern State College to offer certain postgraduate degrees.

: Modifies the compulsory school attendance age.

: Changes the names of Southwest Missouri State University, Missouri Western State College, and Missouri Southern State College.

: Revises procedures for suspension or expulsion of pupils in public schools.

: Revises calculation of state aid to schools.

: Allows only U.S. citizens to participate in the A+ program.

: Requires school to hold an assembly for Veterans' Day.

: Requires school board members to meet orientation and training requirements before filing for reelection.

: Revises alternative education programs.

: Creates the Classroom Trust Fund and transfers certain gambling moneys into the fund.

: Revises requirements relating to opening date for school terms.

: Changes the names of Southwest Missouri State University, Missouri Western State College, and Missouri Southern State College.

: Authorizes state funding for the education of certain disabled students.

: Changes the names of Southwest Missouri State University, Missouri Western State College, and Missouri Southern State College.

: Requires that one voting member of the Governing boards of certain state institutions of higher education be a student.

: Changes the names of Southwest Missouri State University, Missouri Western State College, and Missouri Southern State College.

: Clarifies appropriations for community college district maintenance funds.

: Establishes the Missouri 4 For More Program in the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education.

: Prohibits school districts from adopting discrimination policies that exceed state and federal protections against discrimination unless approved by voters of the district.

: Allows the board of education for the St. Louis City school district to adopt a resolution raising the mandatory attendance age to seventeen.

: Sets standards for emergency sirens in public schools.

: Prohibits public school districts from administering any corporal punishment.

: Requires that one voting member of the governing boards of certain state institutions of higher education be a student.

: Revises teacher certification law.

: Revises discipline policy for public schools.

: Establishes the Priority Schools Trust Fund and revises other school laws.

: Requires American Sign Language courses offered in educational institutions in the State of Missouri to be regarded as a foreign language course offered for academic credit.

: Establishes a higher education funding formula.

: Recognizes and encourages the teaching, study, and learning of American Sign Language.

: Modifies school districts' compliance with certain salary provisions.

: Establishes requirements for schools participating in activities associations.

: Revises threshold for competitive bids for various school projects.

: Prohibits public or charter school employees from performing a strip search of any student of such schools.

: Authorizes a new kind of transfer from a school's incidental fund.

: Creates Urban Flight Scholarship Program.

: Requires criminal background and child abuse registry checks for key personnel of charter schools.

: Creates the "Missouri Healthy Schools Fund".

: Allows school districts to provide transportation for private and parochial students under certain circumstances.

: Revises terms of service for members of the governing council of certain special school districts.

: Adds consumer price index adjustment for hold harmless school districts' school aid.

: Provides for increase in salaries for teachers.

: Revises requirements relating to school districts achieving provisional accreditation.

: Allows public school districts to contract with educational service agencies to develop or improve instructional services or programs.

: Adjusts the allocation of funds to the professional development committee in order to be eligible for state aid.

: Requires the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education to adopt a national teacher certification incentive reward program.

: Revises line 14 of the foundation formula for calculation of state aid to school districts.

: Allows school boards to establish the daily observance of one minute of silence in each classroom of each school within their school district.

: Establishes the Missouri Tutoring Program for Public Schools.

: Requires juvenile sex offenders to register with superintendent of any school district in which the juvenile enrolls or is enrolled.

: Creates subdistricts within certain school districts.

: Allows local school boards to permit the posting of certain historical documents regardless of religious content.

: Revises the powers and duties of the State Board of Education.

: Allows the board of education for the St. Louis City school district to adopt a resolution raising the mandatory attendance age to seventeen.

: Removes prohibition against individuals running for school board in metropolitan districts from being related to an employee of the school district.

: Creates the Missouri tutoring corps program.

: Allows the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education to award salary supplement grants to priority schools employing high quality teachers.

: Allows school officials to read or post in public school buildings any historical document relating to the founding of the United States or the state of Missouri.

: Allows Fairview R-XI school district to make a one-time transfer from the incidental fund to the capital projects fund for a sewer project.

: Revises certain special education services.

: Allows students seeking theology or divinity degrees to participate in the Missouri College Guarantee Program.

: Clarifies provisions relating to qualified zone academy bonds.

: Revises certain student financial assistance programs.

: Removes age restriction for admission of students to the University of Missouri.

: Allows school districts to contract with other entities to loan or rent their school buses for purposes other than transporting school children.

: Establishes the "Collaborative for Applied Experiences in Science Act".

: Requires the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education to adopt a program to inspect and evaluate indoor air quality in schools.

: Provides salary adjustments for certain school personnel.

: Creates the Joint Legislative Committee on Out-of-School Programs.

: Urges the United States Congress to pass an amendment to the United States Constitution that would permit voluntary prayer in public schools.

: Proposes a constitutional amendment to allow approval of school bond issues by simple majority vote.

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

: Proposes a constitutional amendment increasing the minimum percentage of state general revenue appropriated for public schools.

: Proposes a constitutional amendment authorizing state bonded indebtedness of up to $2 billion for public schools.

: Renames Missouri Southern State College.

: Authorizes school districts to designate an educational service agencies.

: Alters the conditions by which a school district may transfer moneys from the incidental fund to the capital projects fund.

: Articulates conditions under which certain school districts shall not be obligated to comply with certain salary compliance provisions.

: State board shall issue teaching certificates valid for the life span of the teacher.

: Requires changes in rules for classifying public schools to be adopted two years prior to implementation and revises teacher certification standards.

: Allows Missouri Higher Education Loan Authority to provide loans for nonsectarian tuition and other costs for high school students taking courses for college credit.

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

: A student's IEP committee must give due consideration to maintaining a private placement option.

: Amends an exception to the mandatory days of school attendance to apply to inclement weather during the 2002-2003 school year.

: Requires school districts to develop policies regarding enrollment option plans no later than July 1, 2004.

: Creates an exception to the mandatory days of school attendacne for the 2002-2003 school year.

: Revises laws on education and allows political subdivisions to hold bond elections.

: Joint Committee on After-School Programs.

: Education.

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