EDUCATION, ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY

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

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

: Raises the minimum amount of school construction projects requiring competitive bids.

: Allows school boards to establish daily observance of one minute of silence.

: Requires school districts to spend a class period observing the meaning of Veteran's Day.

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

: Requires juvenile sex offenders to provide notice of their status as such to their school superintendent.

: Requires school board members to reside in the school district for one year prior to election or appointment.

: Requires school board members in certain districts to be residents and registered voters in such district for one year preceding their election.

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

: Prohibits gender discrimination in public schools.

: Allows school board members in any school district to be removed by the voters in a recall election.

: Creates a deduction from Missouri adjusted gross income for qualified education expenses.

: Prohibits use of corporal punishment in all school districts.

: Revises requirements for opening date of school year.

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

: Revises election process for members of the Kansas City School Board.

: 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.

: Raises compulsory age for school attendance from sixteen to eighteen.

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

: Requires school board members to complete orientation and training and provide proof to election authority prior to filing for reelection.

: 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.

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

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

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

: Allows school districts to have truant officers and creates a penalty for allowing truants to loiter on business premises.

: Establishes minute of silence in all public schools.

: 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.

: Creates a tax credit for contributions to scholarship charity.

: 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.

: Regulates the employment of noncertificated school employees.

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

: Establishes reporting requirements for lobbyists and candidates for office.

: Requires a biennial audit of the St. Louis City School District.

: Requires school districts to adopt indexed salary schedules.

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

: Prohibits schools from offering prizes or incentives to students to sign up for subsidized lunches or to attend on certain days.

: 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.

: Revises the qualifications, election, and districting of the members of the City of St. Louis School Board.

: 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.

: Adds meningitis vaccine to the list of required immunizations for school children.

: Allows school districts to enact an income tax.

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

: Revises utility laws. Requires schools and libraries to restrict access to Internet pornography.

: Allows a tax credit for qualified contributions to schools.

: Allows persons with restricted driving privileges due to driving while intoxicated convictions to drive to and from their formal program of secondary, post-secondary, or higher education.

: Allows certain metropolitan school districts to change the compulsory attendance age.

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

: Modifies various provisions regarding the investigation of child abuse.

: 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.

: Revises section awarding honorary high school diplomas to certain veterans.

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

: Allocates new funds for higher education.

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

: Limits the psychiatric and psychological evaluation of students.

: Allows a tax credit related to a dependent child's reading level.

: Revises law on privacy of elementary and secondary student records.

: 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.

: Requires public schools and public institutions of higher education to recite the Pledge of Allegiance at the beginning of each school day.

: Changes requirements for property assessments.

: Allows Highway Patrol officers to be elected to school boards and permits the superintendent to authorize officers to accept federal commissions.

: Provides funding for education and transportation purposes.

: Allows philosophical beliefs to be a basis for objection to required school immunizations.

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

: Creates a character education grant program and fund.

: Establishes the "School Building Property Tax Relief Fund", to be funded by a sales tax increase, with an accompanying referendum clause.

: 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.

: Establishes the "Challenge Scholarship Program".

: 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.

: Regulates use of psychotropic medications for school children.

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

: Raises the age requirements on various school and motor vehicle laws from sixteen to eighteen.

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

: 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".

: Revises school foundation formula and enacts school accountability measures.

: 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".

: Creates a tax credit for contributions to scholarship or educational charities.

: Revises terms of service for members of the governing council of the special school district in St. Louis County.

: Revises minimum teacher salaries.

: Allows recall elections in the Kansas City school district.

: 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.

: Raises the minimum amount of various school projects requiring minimum bids.

: Establishes procedure for termination of teachers' contracts.

: Requires school board members in certain districts to reside in the district for one year preceding their election or appointment.

: Requires school board members of certain districts to be residents of and registered voters in the district for one year preceding their election or appointment.

: Creates the Schools of the Future Fund and establishes various funding sources.

: Adds Consumer Price Index adjustment to "hold harmless" school districts' school aid.

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

: Requires Kansas City school board members running for election from a subdistrict to reside in that subdistrict but be elected at-large.

: 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.

: Imposes a sales tax on tobacco products for education and other purposes.

: Establishes the "Motivating Parents and Children" program and fund.

: Requires the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education to conduct a study relating to economics and personal finance education.

: Reduces foundation formula deduction for local property taxes.

: Establishes the School Building Construction and Renovation Fund.

: Requires school districts to provide transportation to private and parochial students and allows them to charge fees for the service.

: Requires a one-year waiting period before resubmission of defeated school bond issues.

: 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".

: Allows school board members of any school district to be removed by the voters in a recall election.

: Requires county clerk of Jackson County to forward tax books for school districts by June 15.

: Revises language relating to challenges of a disciplinary change of placement of special education students and process of appeal of a hearing panel's decision.

: 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.

: 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.

: Exempts certain transitional school districts from tax abatement and tax increment allocation financing.

: Eliminates escheats and deems such property transferring to the state to be unclaimed property.

: 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.

: Creates the Homeowner's Protection Act.

: 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.

: Urges Congress to take up and pass the proposed amendment to the U.S. Constitution to permit voluntary prayer in public schools.

: Urges the United States Congress to pass legislation for a proposed voluntary school prayer amendment to the United States Constitution.

: Creates a Joint Interim Committee on After-School Programs.

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

: Proposes a constitutional amendment permitting voluntary prayer in public schools.

: Proposes a constitutional amendment to allow school districts to pass bond issues by simple majority vote.

: Proposes a constitutional amendment increasing from 15% to 25% the limitation on indebtedness by school districts.

: Proposes a constitutional amendment to change the allocation of general state sales tax on motor vehicles.

: Proposes a constitutional amendment guaranteeing public school students the right to pray.

: Revises charter school laws.

: Revises state school aid formula.

: Regulates Internet access for minors in public libraries and schools.

: 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 the Missouri Council on Obesity Prevention.

: Revises foundation formula.

: 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.

: Mandates weekly Pledge of Allegiance in every student's class.

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

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

: Authorizes state tax credit for contributions to authorized scholarship charities.

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

: 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.

: Revises distribution of gaming tax proceeds for schools.

: Establishes Pilot Program of Urban Early Compulsory School Attendance.

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

: Salary schedule credit for public school teachers.

: Establishes December 15 as Bill of Rights Day.

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

: Compulsory attendance age for public school.

: Exempts dependents of active military personnel from the residency requirement of the A+ Schools program.

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

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

: Requires school districts to coordinate special education services with public, private, and not-for-profit agencies.

: Removes the religious and medical exemption limitations from childhood vaccination requirements.

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

: Allows administrators in metropolitan school districts to come out of retirement and keep their benefits for up to four years.

: Establishes School Building Construction and Renovation Fund.

: The act creates the "Urban Flight Scholarship Program".

: Increases number of minority student scholarships; and amount of scholarship for entering special education field.

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

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

: Revises funding for various education programs by repealing gaming boat loss limit for a three-year period.

: Revises minimum salaries for public school teachers.

: Alters the process by which teachers' certificates of license may be revoked.

: Expands the list of offenses for which a pupil may be prohibited from participating in regular programs of instruction to include any felony offense pursuant to chapter 566, RSMo and chapter 567, RSMo

: Allows school districts to suspend students who have been charged with a felony, regardless of whether they are prosecuted as an adult or a juvenile.

: Increases sales tax by one-quarter percent and puts a surcharge on corporate income to fund education.

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

: Raises the admission fee for each person embarking on an excursion gambling boat from two dollars to four dollars.

: Allows parents to refuse to immunize their children without providing certain justifications.

: Establishes sales tax holiday and requires retailers to return sales tax refunds to those paying the tax.

: Funding for the education of certain disabled students.

: Creation of a public school beautification adoption program.

: Mandates that all schools in Missouri receiving public moneys shall recite the Pledge of Allegiance.

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

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

: 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.

: Modifies child abuse investigation procedures that involve a school or child care facility.

: Allows public schools to establish family literacy programs.

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

: 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.

: 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.

: Provides the option of judicial review if a board of arbitrators renders a negative decision regarding school district boundary changes.

: Reconstitutes the Joint Interim Committee on Education Funding which terminated on January 15, 2002.

: Allows approval of school bond issues by simple majority.

: Would allow school districts private school pupils transportation.

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