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Back to School:  While the “dog days of summer” are still upon us, a lot of our kids are already returning to school for their Fall terms.  In 2012, numerous states addressed a long list of issues relating to public school education, from bullying to charter schools to improving schools performance, just to name a few.  Below we have listed a few of these education issues and the different states’ legislative responses:

Reading and Literacy:

  • Arizona:  S. 1258 of 2012 (c. 150).  3rd Grade promotion requirements and accountability:  This bill requires posting on the educational department website best practice examples of reading intervention and remedial reading strategies used in school districts and charter schools in the state relating to third grade and school curriculum. 
  • Colorado:  H. 1238 of 2012 (c. 180).  Basic literacy education and afterschool program:  this bill repeals and reenacts the existing Basic Literacy Act, provides that each school district, charter school, and board of cooperative services that enrolls students from kindergarten or first, second or third grade must provide instructional programs and support in reading to ensure reading skills high enough to enable the student to master the standards and expectations for the next grades up.
  • Oklahoma:  H. 1917 of 2012 (c. 284).  Reading and mathematics proficiency:  this bill amends the “Achieving Classroom Excellence Act of 2005,” provides that a student who does not score at the proficient level on the specified tests in ready and mathematics shall be provided intervention for the purpose of assisting the student in performing at such level on end-of-instruction tests, and provides that such intervention may include extended school days, summer classes, tutoring, online coursework, or other supplementary services. 

Truancy and student attendance:

  • Idaho:  S. 1237 of 2012 (c. 16).  Student attendance and distance, online, and virtual learning: this bill amends existing law relating to education to revise the definition of an online course, relates to fractional average daily attendance and charter schools. 
  • Louisiana:  H. 1209 of 2012 (A. 831).  Alternative education, student attendance and charter schools governance:  this bill provides for alternative education programs for suspended or expelled students, requires attendance, requires parents, tutors, and guardians to assure attendance, provides for enforcement and penalties, provides for an agreement with an education service provider for the education of a student meeting specified criteria and removes the exclusion of specified students from the supervision requirement.
  • Maine:  S. 473 of 2012 (P.L. 614).  School Attendance, K-12 school safety, middle school: this bill implements the recommendations of the stakeholder group established by the Commissioner of Education relating to increasing high school graduation rates and addressing other policy issues pertaining to school expulsion, suspension, zero-tolerance practices and truancy in Maine, among other provisions.

Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM)

  • Illinois:  H. 1876 of 2012 (P.A. 196).  Higher Education Technology Entrepreneur Center Act:  This bill creates this act, authorizes the board of trustees of each public university and community college district to create a technology entrepreneur center for each campus of the university or each community college campus, requires a center to provide material and personal infrastructure to selected innovators with an inventive concept that has not yet been offered for sale in the private-sector market, and provides for a work-study program.
  • Oregon:  H. 4056 of 2012 (c. 94).  Task Force on STEM Access and Success:  this bill establishes the Task Force for the purpose of encouraging students to study science, technology, engineering and mathematics, and establishes a STEM Fund to provide scholarships to encourage students to study these subjects.
  • Utah:  H. 514 of 2012 (c. 181).  Information technology education:  this bill provides for an educational program on the use of information technology within the public education and higher education systems, directs the State Board of Education and the State Board of Regents to provide for an education program on the use of information technology, and specifies the components of an educational program on the use of information technology. 

 

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