ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION, DEPT. OF

Missouri House of Representatives
92nd General Assembly, 2nd Regular Session (2004)
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ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION, DEPT. OF

: Exempts schools from the prevailing wage requirements, but allows schools to choose to be subject to the requirements.

: Requires public schools to impose a specific condition of suspension on students subject to certain types of suspensions and allows for expulsion if that condition is violated.

: Establishes policies for education accountability.

: Revises various statutes relating to teachers and other school personnel.

: Requires the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education to request funds to provide for a professional development fund for teachers and eliminates the Success Leads to Success Program.

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

: Establishes various new statutes relating to school bus transportation safety.

: Relates to pupil/teacher ratios.

: Requires the State Board of Education to submit an annual report to the General Assembly concerning the number of retired teachers who are teaching because of critical shortages of certified teachers.

: Revises the school funding formula summer school add-on to include only those pupils who attended summer school in the immediately preceding year.

: Relates to public school facilities and outside use.

: Revises requirements relating to school districts achieving provisional accreditation.

: Amends the computation of state aid for schools by modifying the requirements for the summer school add-on.

: Relates to eligible pupil counts and kindergarten average daily attendance.

: Removes the multiplier for the proration factor for career ladder entitlement under the school foundation formula.

: Allows large school districts that have attained full accreditation for a five-year period to obtain waivers to choose their own standards for qualification in the Missouri School Improvement Program.

: Requires all elementary school students to receive regular classroom instruction in a foreign language.

: Prohibits public school districts from administering any corporal punishment.

: Authorizes a $10 surcharge in certain felony criminal cases to fund the Gang Resistance Education and Training Program and the After School Reading Retreat Program.

: Provides that students who are expelled for acts of violence not be counted as drop-outs for accreditation purposes for the Missouri School Improvement Program.

: Establishes the Equal Opportunity Education Contract Program for schools (school voucher program).

: Creates the Economic Development Through Community Schools Fund.

: Removes an outdated reference to the State Training School for Negro Girls and other outdated institutional references.

: Requires passenger seat belts on every school bus beginning with the 2004-2005 school year and creates the School Bus Seat Belt Fund to help school districts pay for the seat belts.

: Relates to teacher certification.

: Provides that members of the School for the Deaf Board of Advisors be appointed by the Commissioner of Education.

: Authorizes a tax credit for contributions to nonprofit educational assistance programs.

: Limits civil liability for school employees administering health care services in public school districts.

: Requires the equal treatment of science instruction regarding evolution and intelligent design.

: Alters the state's tax structure and establishes a new means of distributing education funds.

: Relates to school credit for students transferring into an accredited public school district from an unaccredited public or nonpublic school or a home school.

: Authorizes contribution designations to the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education on the Missouri income tax return form.

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

: Accreditation of Charter Schools.

: Asserts that the contract for any vocational agriculture teacher shall be a twelve-month contract.

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

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

: School districts to provide readiness assessments to determine whether certain children are ready to enter school.

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

: Establishes the Missouri Commission on Prevention and Management of Obesity.

: Formulates a new procedure of recalling school board members.

: Alters funding mechanism for statewide areas of critical need for learning and development.

: Establishes the "Collaborative for Applied Experiences in Science" (CAES) program.

: Requires public pre-kindergarten teachers to possess a valid teaching certificate.

: Creation of the gang resistance education and training program to be used in schools.

: Speech pathologists with a Certificate of Clinical Competence to be placed on Stage III of the career ladder program.

: Seeks to consolidate the "academically deficient schools" and "priority schools" school accountability measures.

: Requires school districts to meet the requirements of section 160.530, RSMo, in order to be eligible for state aid.

: Establishes the "Hope Scholarship Program".

: Modifies and creates various laws relating to education accountability.

: Establishes the Missouri junior/senior cadets program.

: Requires each public school district to promulgate and implement a bully-free school plan.

: Encourages effective involvement by parents and families in supporit of the education of their children.

: Certain school districts shall be reimbursed fully for costs associated with offering certain special educational services.

: Alters charter school laws.

: Directs the State Board of Education to assist and encourage school districts in adopting service-learning programs.

: Imposes a surcharge on certain felony court proceedings to fund certain school-related programs.

: Requires the department of elementary and secondary education to adopt an indoor air quality program.

: Establishes the Joint Interim Comittee on Teacher Support, Regulatory Reduction and Accountability.

: Modifies the composition of the State Board of Education.

: Enables the Legislature to issue bonds for education purposes.

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