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 requirements relating to opening date for school terms.

: Revises calculation of state aid to schools.

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

: 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.

: 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.

: 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.

: 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.

: 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.

: 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.

: 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.

: 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.

: Establishes the Missouri Tutoring Program for Public Schools.

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

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

: 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.

: 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.

: Revises certain special education services.

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

: 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.

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

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

: Authorizes conveyance of state property in Pettis County.

: Creates signing bonuses for teachers in rural schools.

: Modifies various provisions relating to the protection of the elderly.

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

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

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

: Establishes planning commission for Kansas City Missouri School District.

: 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.

: Alters charter school laws.

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

: 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".

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

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

: 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.

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

: Adjustments to the foundation formula.

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

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

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

: 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.

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

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

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

: Enables the Legislature to issue bonds for education purposes.

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