EDUCATION, ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY

Missouri House of Representatives
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EDUCATION, ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY
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: Exempts certain transitional school districts from tax abatement and tax increment allocation financing.

: Modifies the exemptions from licensure required for foster homes and child placing agencies.

: Revises requirements relating to opening date for school terms.

: Modifies the compulsory school attendance age.

: Requires noncertificated employees in urban and seven-director school districts to be appointed and promoted pursuant to rules adopted by the local school board.

: 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 that the punishment for distribution of controlled substance near schools and certain housing be served without probation or parole if the defendant is a persistent drug offender.

: 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.

: Makes it a crime for sex offenders to establish a residency within 1000 feet of a public school or child care facility and to notify the sheriff if one moves within 1000 feet of them within 1 week.

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

: Revises requirements relating to opening date for school terms.

: Allows an additional exemption from immunizations for school children.

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

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

: Authorizes honorary high school diplomas for certain civilians, prisoners of war, and other veterans.

: Creates recall elections for school board members.

: Creates the crime of sexual contact with a student while on public school property.

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

: Modifies the provisions of the public school and nonteacher retirement systems.

: Designates big bluestem grass as the official grass of the state of Missouri.

: Enacts the Missouri Calcium Initiative which gives purchasing preference to foods and beverages containing high levels of calcium.

: 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.

: Revises teacher certification law.

: Revises discipline policy for public schools.

: Revises section 574.075 to make it a misdemeanor to be in school, curch or courthouse in a drunken, intoxicated or disorderly condition or to drink or offer anything intoxicating to drink to anyone.

: Revises section 574.075 to make it a misdemeanor to be in school, curch or courthouse in a drunken, intoxicated or disorderly condition or to drink or offer anything intoxicating to drink to anyone.

: 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.

: 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.

: Revises the Public School Retirement System.

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

: Creates a tax credit for contributions to scholarship charities.

: Modifies the provisions of the public school and nonteacher retirement systems.

: 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.

: Allows school districts to enact income and sales taxes.

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

: Provides for increase in salaries for teachers.

: Creates a tax credit for education-related costs.

: 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.

: Creates subdistricts within certain school districts located in St. Louis County.

: 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.

: Changes various election laws to comply with the Help America Vote Act of 2002.

: 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.

: Allows recall elections for Kansas City School Board members.

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

: Imposes a tax on tobacco for schools and fire education.

: Creates inclement weather exceptions for mandatory school attendance requirements.

: Requires juvenile officers to report investigations for violations relating to compulsory school attendance to the child's school district under certain circumstances.

: Creates the Missouri tutoring corps program.

: Makes manufacturing a controlled substance within 2,000 feet of a school a class A felony.

: 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.

: Revises conditions under which schools may join or retain membership in statewide activities associations.

: 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.

: Designates the month of March of every year as "Irish History Month".

: Sets speed limits within school zones and requires drivers to use care with respect to pedestrians and bicyclists.

: Revises provisions relating to election of certain school board members.

: Allows courts to suspend an individual's driver's license for up to one hundred twenty days for failure to stop for a school bus that is loading or unloading students.

: Clarifies provisions relating to qualified zone academy bonds.

: Revises certain student financial assistance programs.

: Revises the calculation of certain elements of state school aid.

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

: 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.

: Reserves the House Chamber for presentation of Glory Awards on Friday, April 25, 2003, from 12:15 p.m. to 1:45 p.m.

: Establishes a sales tax holiday.

: Alters the provisions concerning suspension and the offenses for which a pupil may be prohibited from participating in public school instruction.

: Creates signing bonuses for teachers in rural schools.

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

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

: Creates a tax credit for teachers' related out-of-pocket expenses.

: Establishes planning commission for Kansas City Missouri School District.

: Allows the Department of Health to investigate complaints of air quality in public schools.

: Limits the availability of low income housing tax credits.

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

: Establishes coordinated health program board to prevent student obesity, cardiovascular disease, and type II diabetes.

: Allows teachers and administrators in KC to come out of retirement and not relinquish their retirement benefits for 4 years.

: Alters charter school laws.

: Authorizes school districts to designate an educational service agencies.

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

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

: Modifies several retirement systems and creates incentives for certain persons to retire.

: Any increase in the Gaming Proceeds for Education Fund shall be transferred to the Classroom Trust Fund.

: Modifies several retirement systems and creates incentives for certain persons to retire.

: Exempts retailers from sales tax for inventory donated to private or public education entities.

: 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.

: Alters the criteria DESE employs for designating a school, or school district, as "priority".

: Repeals loss limit; creates educational job retaining fund; redirects increases in gaming proceeds for education fund.

: Allows metropolitan school districts (St. Louis Public Schools) the power to raise the compulsory attendance age to 17.

: In some cases removes work done on behalf of schools from the requirements of the prevailing wage laws.

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

: Establishes a December 15, 2003, deadline for a Missouri Consolidated Health Care Plan study which is presently required by law but has no deadline.

: Revises the MAP assessment subject matter "test domains" by limiting the scope of said domains.

: Limits access to military discharge documents filed with county recorders, expands eligibility for an honorary high school diploma for veterans, and requires schools to hold Veterans Day observances.

: Students participation in FFA, FHA, FCCLA, 4-H, and State Fair competitions to count as attendance for purpose of state school aid.

: Emergency sirens in public schools shall be uniform and possess the same ringing sound in each school.

: Aspires to establish the "Collaborative for Applied Experiences in Science" (CAES) program.

: Requires the State Board of Education to study and evaluate the adequacy and equity of state school aid.

: Renders several modifications to the state's education, education funding, and taxation policies.

: Modifies the distribution of moneys from the Gaming Commission Fund.

: Sets speed limits within school zones and requires drivers to use care with respect to pedestrians and bicyclists.

: Changes minimum age of defendant for the crime of murder from sixteen to eighteen.

: Alters the distribution of the Gaming Commission Fund.

: Modifies several retirement systems and creates incentives for certain persons to retire.

: Relating to membership qualifications for seven-director or urban school district school boards.

: Directs unobligates cash balance in the school building revolving fund as of August 28, 2003 to the foundation formula.

: Alters provisions regarding teacher termination hearings.

: Adjustments to the foundation formula.

: Creates the "Show-me Parental Choice Tax Credit Program".

: Allows certain teachers who job-share to receive creditable service for retirement and pro-rata leave and holidays.

: Seeks to delete the Academically Deficient Schools Program from the statutes.

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

: A+ reimbursements shall not be issued to any four-year institutions of higher education.

: Alters the Foundation Formula by completely removing the Line 1(b) calculation.

: DESE shall award, subject to appropriation, salary supplement grants to priority schools employing high quality teachers.

: Creates a Gang Resistance Education and Training program to be used in schools.

: Calculation of Summer School Eligible Pupil Counts and Demonstration of Quantifiable Pupil Assessment Gains.

: The state board shall encourage effective involvement by parents in support of the education of their children.

: Creation the "More for Four" pilot program, providing grants to a maximum of 25 pre-kindergarten pilot programs.

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

: Alters policies regarding the lapse of school districts.

: Alters provisions regarding special education policy.

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

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

: The state board of education shall promulgate rules regarding model school district healthy dietary guidelines.

: 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.

: Requires the juvenile court to notify school districts of any violations of compulsory school attendance.

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

: Seeks to replace the term "eligible pupils" with the term "average daily attendance" in line 1 of the foundation formula.

: Allows private school students to ride public school buses.

: Enables the Legislature to issue bonds for education purposes.

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