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AZ SB1285

Bill

Status

Failed

2/12/2013

Primary Sponsor

Kelli Ward

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Origin

Senate

Fifty-first Legislature - First Regular Session (2013)

AI Summary

  • Requires the Arizona Department of Education to produce and annually update a handbook describing educational options available to parents and students in public schools.

  • Handbook must include information about open enrollment, charter schools, private schools, homeschooling, tuition tax credit scholarships, and empowerment scholarship accounts, with instructions on how to access each option.

  • Department must mail a copy of the handbook annually to parents and guardians of all public school students in Arizona.

  • Department must post the handbook on its website.

  • Costs of producing, updating, and mailing the handbook must be paid using monies allocated to the Department of Education under Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965.

Legislative Description

Handbook; educational options

Last Action

Senate APPROP Committee action: Held

2/12/2013

Full Bill Text

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