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Urges department of education to develop a curriculum for grades 7-12 that increases students’ awareness of teen dating violence and sexual violence. (S: Finney; H: Harwell) |
P.C. 824
Effective 6/02/06 |
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Creates a special joint committee to study the open government laws in the state of Tennessee with the purpose of determining whether the laws need updating or revising to better serve the citizens of this state. One member of the 18-member committee shall be an elected school board member. (S: McNally; H: Fowlkes)
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Establishes a commission on civic education to be attached to the department of education for the purposes of researching the current policies and practices in civic education at the state and local levels. (S: Woodson; H: Winningham) |
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Allows LEAs to use local government procurement/purchasing procedures as an alternative to those prescribed by statute for education expenditures. (S: Ramsey; H: Vaughn) |
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Clarifies that certain students with diabetes may possess sharps on their person upon request by a parent or guardian. (S: Black; H:Armstrong) |
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Requires 100 percent of unclaimed lottery prize money at the end of each fiscal year to go to the after school programs special account. Capped at $18 million. (S: Cohen; H: Winningham) |
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Increases HOPE scholarship award to $3800 for students at four-year schools and $1900 for students at two-year schools. Increases Wilder-Naifeh technical skills grant amount to $1575. (S: Cohen; H: Winningham) |
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Requires the department of education in consultation with the department of safety to develop advisory guidelines for LEAs to use in developing a monthly report to inform high school students of any DUI related death of a person 18 years old or younger. (S: Cohen; H: Marrero) |
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Requires state board of education to provide a curriculum for alternative schools that ensures student success by using different learning strategies and techniques. Establishes an advisory council on alternative education composed of ten members to advise and consult with the governor, the commissioner of education and the state board of education on issues or problems related to alternative education. (S: Woodson; H: Winningham) |
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Establishes lottery scholarship program to enable tenured public school teachers to obtain advanced degrees. Limits eligibility for such scholarship to teachers who will study and teach math or science. (S: Tracy; H: Winningham) |
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Requires tenured teacher who resigns and subsequently returns to the school system to serve one-year probationary period before tenure can be regained unless such probationary period is waived by the local board of education. (S: Ketron; H: Montgomery) |
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Requires that the department of education in conjunction with the department of health develop guidelines for the management of students with life-threatening food allergies. Specifies inclusion of training for school personnel, procedures for responding to life-threatening allergic reactions, process for the development of individualized health care and protocols to prevent exposure to food allergens. Requires each LEA to implement plans based on such guidelines by July 1, 2007. (S: Haynes; H: Moore) |
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Allows for the commissioner of education to grant a waiver from the statutory maximum class size in the event of a natural disaster resulting in the enrollment of displaced students. (S: Woodson; H: Winningham) |
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Requires educational assistants hired after July 1, 2006, to have a high school diploma or GED and demonstrate proficiency in reading and writing skills. (S: Herron; H: Maddox) |
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Requires the department of education to encourage institutions with authorized teacher training programs to evaluate such programs to assure that persons seeking licensure in the state of Tennessee will have appropriate instruction in the teaching of reading. (S: Harper; H: Cooper B.)
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Establishes a pilot program to provide certified athletic trainers in public high schools. (S: Crowe; H: Winningham) |
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Directs the commissioner of education to recommend employment standards for the eligibility, qualifications and training requirements for school resource officers and to distribute to each LEA. Clarifies that state and local governments may contract for services with TOSS. Encourages each public school to adopt a recycling program. (S: Burks; H: Winningham) |
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Establishes six pilot after school programs for at-risk students to prepare for ACT and SAT examinations to be funded by net state lottery proceeds. Requires two pilot programs to be in each grand division. (S: Bowers; H: Brown) |
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Places municipal boards of education under same rules as county boards with respect to contracting for the construction of school buildings. Permits municipal boards to negotiate with the lowest and best bidder to bring the cost of construction within the funds available. (S: Woodson; H: Winningham) |
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Allows regular public school systems to apply for waivers from any state board rule or regulation that inhibits or hinders the district’s ability to implement innovative programs designed to improve student achievement. (S: Woodson; H: Winningham) |
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Requires the commissioner of education to develop a plan to address health insurance cost disparities among LEA employees. (S: Woodson; H: Winningham) |
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Requires schools to conduct a lottery scholarship day for students entering grades 9-12 and their parents for the purpose of informing them of the lottery scholarship requirements. Requires each high school to provide workshops on completing college admissions and financial aid applications for 10 th through 12 th grade students and their parents. Such workshops may be conducted in conjunction with the school’s lottery scholarship day. (S: Ford, O; H: Brown) |
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Removes provision whereby a teacher’s tenure automatically terminates following his or her 65 th birthday. (S: Cohen; H: Winningham) |
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Requires public schools to provide children with a deployed parent in the United States Armed Forces to receive an excused absence from school on the day the parent is deployed and on the day of the parent’s return from deployment. (S: Herron; H: Maddox) |
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Directs the comptroller’s office to review Tennessee’s family life curriculum programs and to report on their effectiveness. (S: Herron; H: DeBerry, J.) |
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Removes prohibition on Blount, Sumner and Knox Counties from allowing the use of school buildings and property for certain private benefit. (S: Black; H: Maggart) |
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Permits student participation in a personal finance course developed by the department of education and approved by the state board of education to substitute for a course on the essentials of the free enterprise system. (S: Black; H: Overbey) |
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Increases the amount of purchase where the local board of education is required to solicit competitive bids through newspaper advertisements from $5,000 to $10,000. (S: Ford, O.; H: Stanley) |
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Requires educational and athletic associations whose employees participate in TCRS to notify the board of trustees of reemployment of retired member. (S: Woodson; H: Winningham) |
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Requires public agencies entering into interlocal agreements to file such agreements with the comptroller. Also requires the filing of an annual statement, setting forth the names of the all parties to the agreement, annual revenue and expenses of any entity created under the agreement and other information required by the comptroller. Subjects insurance pools created by governmental entities to an annual audit by the comptroller. (S: Woodson; H: Winningham) |
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Cover Tennessee Initiative. Includes a Diabetes component, implementing school-based prevention programs by providing venture capital in the form of incentives and rewards for school communities to craft or adopt successful local solutions around diabetes and obesity issues. Also implements a Healthy Teen Intervention Program, with two Tennessee high schools to be selected to participate in a current NIH clinical trial for healthy weight management and 10 additional high schools to be recruited to participate in an enhancement of the NIH program. (S: Cooper; H: McMillan) |
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Appropriations bill. Makes appropriations for the operation of state government. (S: Henry; H: McMillan) |
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Places blind children under the same compulsory attendance requirements as other children. (S: Kyle; H: McMillan) |
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Prohibits LEAs from denying admission to homeless children if such children have not been immunized or are unable to show proof of immunization due to being homeless. Aligns state law with federal law. (S: Kyle; H: McMillan) |
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Changes the name of the division of vocational-technical education within the department of education to the division of career and technical education. (S: Kyle; H: McMillan) |
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Specifies that when the education of a child becomes the state’s direct responsibility for any reason, the commissioner of education shall pay to the state agency responsible for the child an amount equal to the state and local funds that would otherwise be expended on the child had the child not been placed in state care. (S: Kyle; H: McMillan) |
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Requires school districts to implement 90 minutes of physical activity per week for students in grades K-12. Expands the Coordinated School Health Program to all school districts in the state. (S: Herron; H: Fitzhugh) |
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SR120
HR286 |
Approves revisions to components of the basic education program as proposed by the state board of education. Directs the BEP Review Committee to develop a consensus recommendation on a system-level fiscal capacity model which provides a phase-in process and hold harmless provisions and to include such recommendation in its November 2006 report. (S: Kyle; H: Winningham) |
Signed by Senate Speaker
5/11/06
Signed by House Speaker
5/15/06
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HJR1026 |
Establishes 2006 Education Summit of Tennessee for the purposes of evaluating the current educational delivery system and discussing strategies to increase the high school graduation rate, reduce the achievement gap, increase accessibility to higher education and propose educational programs that will prepare the next generation for the future workplace. (H: Brown) |
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Phone: (800) 448-6465, Ext. 237
