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Enacting the speech-language pathology assistant act to provide for the licensure of speech-language pathology assistants.
Removing the requirement that the state board of education use a certain exam provider to deliver certain college entrance and career readiness exams and requiring the board to provide for such exams using any provider.
Requiring the state board of education to report to the legislature on federal moneys received by the state, ending certain educational reporting requirements and applying expiration dates to other educational reporting requirements.
Authorizing children in the custody of the secretary of the department for children and families to attend school in any school district, requiring records for such students to be timely transferred between school districts and requiring a transportation plan if the child remains in the school of origin.
Removing certain terms relating to individuals with intellectual disabilities.
Establishing the no kid hungry in schools program to reimburse school districts for the cost of providing certain meals to students attending public school.
Senate Substitute for HB 2382 by Committee on Education - Requiring school districts to include a fetal development presentation as part of the curriculum for any course that addresses human growth, human development or human sexuality and authorizing the state board of education to establish the rate of compensation for members of the board.
Enacting the longitudinal data act, establishing the division of longitudinal data in the legislative research department, authorizing the appointment of a director of the division by the legislative coordinating council and providing for the development and management of the Kansas longitudinal data system for the purpose of tracking and analyzing education, workforce and related data.
Requiring enrollment under the Kansas school equity and enhancement act to be determined using the current school year or the preceding school year.
Requiring the state board of education to authorize teaching licenses for individuals who complete an alternative teacher certification program.
House Substitute for SB 387 by Committee on K-12 Education Budget - Making appropriations for the department of education for FY 24, FY 25 and FY 26 and enacting, revising and abolishing certain statutes relating to the educational system.
Authorizing students enrolled in virtual schools to participate in activities that are regulated by the Kansas state high school activities association at such student’s resident school district without a minimum enrollment requirement in such resident school district.
Requiring each school district to establish an at-risk student accountability plan and to show academic improvement in certain student subgroups and students identified as eligible for at-risk programs, prohibiting the state board of education from revising the curriculum standards in English language arts and mathematics until 75% of all students achieve proficiency and requiring school districts to comply with all state laws and rules and regulations to maintain accreditation.
Establishing requirements for the determination of virtual school state aid for adult students.
Revising the special education state aid statewide excess costs calculation to count additional funding, requiring the state board of education to determine each school district's excess costs and to establish a special education state aid equalization distribution schedule to distribute certain amounts of special education state aid and requiring school districts to transfer amounts attributable to the special education weighting from their supplemental general funds to their special education funds.
Establishing the education funding task force and abolishing the special education and related services funding task force.
Revising school district open enrollment procedures and requirements to prioritize students who are residents of Kansas over students who are residents of another state, providing for continued enrollment of students who attended a school district of nonresidence in school year 2023-2024, authorizing school districts to deem students as not in good standing prior to enrollment and requiring publication of nonresident student transfer policies on the school district website.
Limiting the legislative option to purchase school district buildings to buildings that were formerly used as attendance centers.
Requiring enrollment under the Kansas school equity and enhancement act to be determined using the current school year or the preceding school year and requiring any district that closed a school building in the preceding school year to use the current year enrollment count.
Revising the special education state aid statewide excess costs calculation to count additional funding, requiring the state board of education to determine each school district's excess costs and to establish a special education state aid equalization distribution schedule to distribute certain amounts of special education state aid and requiring school districts to transfer amounts attributable to the special education weighting from their supplemental general funds to their special education funds.
Establishing requirements for the determination of virtual school state aid for adult students.
Requiring all public schools and public postsecondary educational institutions to make feminine hygiene products available at no cost to students and establishing a state grant program for such purpose.
Eliminating school district open enrollment requirements and authorizing school districts to determine nonresident student enrollment.
Requiring school districts to provide timely implementation of an individualized education program and advanced enrollment for certain children who are new to such school district.
Requiring each school district to establish an at-risk student accountability plan and to show academic improvement in certain student subgroups and students identified as eligible for at-risk programs, prohibiting the state board of education from revising the curriculum standards in English language arts and mathematics until 75% of all students achieve proficiency and requiring school districts to comply with all state laws and rules and regulations to maintain accreditation.
Requiring school districts to be in compliance with all state laws and rules and regulations to be accredited and requiring the state board of education to establish a process to challenge determinations of such compliance.
Establishing the education funding task force and abolishing the special education and related services funding task force.
Requiring the state board of education to authorize teaching licenses for individuals who complete an alternative teacher certification program.
Revising school district open enrollment procedures and requirements to prioritize students who are residents of Kansas over students who are residents of another state, providing for continued enrollment of students who attended a school district of nonresidence in school year 2023-2024, authorizing school districts to deem students as not in good standing prior to enrollment and requiring publication of nonresident student transfer policies on the school district website.
Authorizing students enrolled in virtual schools to participate in activities that are regulated by the Kansas state high school activities association at such student’s resident school district without a minimum enrollment requirement in such resident school district.
Limiting the legislative option to purchase school district buildings to buildings that were formerly used as attendance centers.
Requiring enrollment under the Kansas school equity and enhancement act to be determined using the current school year or the preceding school year and requiring any district that closed a school building in the preceding school year to use the current year enrollment count.
Establishing the school district mental health intervention team program in statute to provide coordinated mental health services for students among school districts and community mental health centers.
Authorizing any nonresident student whose parent or guardian is employed by a school district to enroll in and attend such school district.
Authorizing boards of education of school districts to compensate board members for the duties and obligations of board members.
Establishing the Sunflower education equity act to provide education savings accounts for qualified students in Kansas.
Revising the Kansas school equity and enhancement act to provide per-student education funding based on student enrollment in the current school year.
Providing additional student eligibility under the tax credit for low income students scholarship program and increasing the amount of the tax credit for contributions made pursuant to such program.
Authorizing nonpublic school students to participate in activities regulated by the Kansas state high school activities association and allowing nonpublic school students who enroll part time in a public school to participate in nonpublic school activities.
Providing postsecondary tuition assistance to certain children of qualifying public school teachers.
Establishing the school district board of education member free speech and transparency act.
Establishing the sunflower teacher-student mentor program within certain school districts to encourage students to pursue a teaching career.
Amending section 6 of article 6 of the constitution of the state of Kansas to prohibit public funds from being used for private nonpublic schools.
Authorizing any nonresident student whose parent or guardian is employed by a school district to enroll in and attend such school district.
Authorizing boards of education of school districts to compensate board members for the duties and obligations of board members.
Establishing the Sunflower education equity act to provide education savings accounts for qualified students in Kansas.
Urging the U.S. Congress to fully fund the federal government's original funding promise under the individuals with disabilities education act.
Providing additional student eligibility under the tax credit for low income students scholarship program and increasing the amount of the tax credit for contributions made pursuant to such program.
Authorizing nonpublic school students to participate in activities regulated by the Kansas state high school activities association and allowing nonpublic school students who enroll part time in a public school to participate in nonpublic school activities.
Establishing the Kansas blueprint for literacy and a literacy advisory committee, directing the board of regents to appoint a director of literacy education, requiring the board of regents and board of education to collaborate on a literacy micro-credential, providing university presidents and deans of education oversight over postsecondary literacy courses, requiring a plan to establish centers of excellence in reading, requiring the board of education to submit annual reports to the legislature on literacy goals; establishing the Kansas education opportunity scholarship to replace the Kansas ethnic minority scholarship, removing limits on Kansas nursing service scholarship awards and modifying the interest rate terms and repayment obligations for such awards, eliminating the requirement to subtract other aid from the state payment for the AO-K program, modifying financial limitations on Kansas hero's scholarship awards and broadening eligibility requirements for such awards.
House Substitute for SB 113 by Committee on K-12 Education Budget - Making appropriations for the department of education for FY 23, FY 24 and FY 25; establishing the mental health intervention team program; authorizing certain students to participate in activities regulated by the Kansas state high school activities association; requiring school districts to post certain enrollment and academic information on school district websites; revising school district open-enrollment procedures; authorizing local school board members to receive compensation from their school district; authorizing current-year student enrollment for determinations of state foundation aid; continuing the 20 mill statewide tax levy for schools; amending the school districts that qualify for and the amount that school districts are able to levy pursuant to the cost-of-living weighting.
Senate Substitute for HB 2060 by Committee on Education - Authorizing payments from the state safety fund to community colleges for the provision of driver's education, authorizing the provision of tools, supplies and examinations to AO-K career pathway program participants and including high school equivalency credentials in performance-based payments for postsecondary educational institutions.
House Substitute for SB 83 by Committee on K-12 Education Budget - Making appropriations for the state department of education for FY 2024, establishing the sunflower education equity act to provide education savings accounts for qualified students, requiring school districts to provide a salary increase to all licensed teachers and defining enrollment of small school districts as the highest enrollment from the preceding four years under the Kansas school equity and enhancement act.
Allowing K-12 students to transfer to and attend school in any school district in the state.
Establishing the parents' bill of rights for parents of students attending elementary or secondary school in this state.
Substitute for Substitute for HB 2512 by Committee on K-12 Education Budget - Making appropriations for the Kansas state department of education for FY 2022, FY 2023 and FY 2024, establishing requirements relating to academic achievement and third-grade literacy, authorizing credits to be earned through alternative educational opportunities, requiring KSHSAA members and employees to report child abuse and neglect, requiring boards of education of school districts to consider district needs assessments and academic assessments when approving district budgets, authorizing part-time enrollment for certain students, establishing an alternative graduation rate calculation for virtual schools, providing virtual school state aid for credit deficient students and amending the age of initial eligibility for the tax credit for low income students scholarship program.
Substitute for HB 2662 by Committee on K-12 Education Budget - Establishing the parents' bill of rights and academic transparency act, requiring school districts to establish parent transparency portals to provide information on materials that are used or made available in schools, prohibiting schools from non-renewing a teacher's contract for refusing to teach against certain beliefs or practices and establishing requirements for the administration of certain nonacademic tests, questionnaires, surveys and examinations.
Substitute for HB 2615 by Committee on K-12 Education Budget - Allowing K-12 students to transfer to and attend school in any school district in the state.
Authorizing school districts to provide part-time enrollment options for certain students.
Requiring local boards of education to document and consider the school needs assessment and state assessments in the budget process.
Establishing the Kansas student achievement accountability act to require students to show grade level proficiency on state assessments before promotion to the next grade level and requiring state assessments to be provided to each grade level in each school year.
Establishing the legislative award for excellence in teaching program to provide merit-based bonuses to teachers in certain school districts, establishing the every child can read act to focus on third-grade literacy proficiency and requiring the state department of education to provide summary academic achievement reports.
Substitute for HB 2662 by Committee on K-12 Education Budget - Establishing the parents' bill of rights and academic transparency act, requiring school districts to establish parent transparency portals to provide information on materials that are used or made available in schools, prohibiting schools from non-renewing a teacher's contract for refusing to teach against certain beliefs or practices and establishing requirements for the administration of certain nonacademic tests, questionnaires, surveys and examinations.
Requiring statutory due process procedures for a school district's non-renewal or termination of a teacher contract.
Prohibiting virtual schools from offering or providing any financial incentive for a student to enroll in a virtual school.
Establishing the aspiring future teacher of the year scholarship and grant program; such scholarships and grants based on the recipients of the Kansas teacher of the year award backgrounds and attributes; making and concerning appropriations for the program for fiscal years ending June 30, 2023, June 30, 2024, June 30, 2025, June 30, 2026, and June 30, 2027, for the department of education for such scholarships and grants.
Substitute for HB 2615 by Committee on K-12 Education Budget - Allowing K-12 students to transfer to and attend school in any school district in the state.
Providing an alternative calculation of graduation rates for virtual schools based on students' earned credits at the time of enrollment in the virtual school.
Allowing K-12 students to transfer to and attend school in any school district in the state.
Establishing the student empowerment act to provide education savings accounts for certain students to use to attend participating private schools.
Prohibiting the state department of education from enforcing remote learning limitations and providing for the repeal of such limitations.
Substitute for Substitute for HB 2512 by Committee on K-12 Education Budget - Making appropriations for the Kansas state department of education for FY 2022, FY 2023 and FY 2024, establishing requirements relating to academic achievement and third-grade literacy, authorizing credits to be earned through alternative educational opportunities, requiring KSHSAA members and employees to report child abuse and neglect, requiring boards of education of school districts to consider district needs assessments and academic assessments when approving district budgets, authorizing part-time enrollment for certain students, establishing an alternative graduation rate calculation for virtual schools, providing virtual school state aid for credit deficient students and amending the age of initial eligibility for the tax credit for low income students scholarship program.
Authorizing school districts to provide part-time enrollment options for certain students.
Requiring school districts to provide copies of certain tests, questionnaires, surveys or examinations to parents prior to obtaining consent to administer such test, questionnaire, survey or examination and prohibiting collection of personally identifiable student data.
Requiring boards of education of school districts to increase the compensation of classroom teachers based upon annual school district budget increases.
Authorizing local boards of eduction to choose which professional employees' organization to recognize as the exclusive bargaining unit for negotiations conducted under the professional negotiations act.
Amending the tax credit for low income students scholarship program act to expand student eligibility.
Establishing the nonproficient student weighting in the Kansas school equity and enhancement act.
Senate Substitute for HB 2287 by Committee on Education - Creating the Kansas promise scholarship act to provide postsecondary educational scholarship for certain two-year associate degree programs, career and technical education certificates and other stand-alone programs.
Amending the definition of an at-risk student in the Kansas school equity and enhancement act to require at-risk funding to be determined based on a poverty metric for certain students and proficiency metric for other students.
Excluding U.S.D. No. 207, Fort Leavenworth, from the capital improvement state aid schedule.
Making the high-density at-risk student weighting of the Kansas school equity and enhancement act permanent by removing the sunset provision.
Substitute for HB 2119 by Committee on K-12 Education Budget – Making and concerning appropriations for the department of education for fiscal years ending June 30, 2021, June 30, 2022, and June 30, 2023, creating and expanding school choice programs, restricting remote learning and remote enrollment and extending the statewide property tax levy for schools.
Requiring the allocation of sufficient school district moneys to improve academic performance of underachieving students.
Amending the tax credit for low income students scholarship program act to expand student eligibility.
Authorizing certain students to participate in activities regulated by the Kansas state high school activities association and making members of or persons employed by the Kansas state high school activities association mandatory reporters of child abuse and neglect.
House Substitute for SB 63 by Committee on K-12 Education Budget - Enacting the back to school act to require school districts to provide a full-time, in person attendance option for all students beginning March 31, 2021, for school year 2020-2021.
Enacting the back to school act to require school districts to provide a full-time, in person attendance option for all students beginning on March 26, 2021.
Authorizing the state board of education to grant waivers for school districts from the requirement to provide a minimum number of school hours during the school term.
Amending the tax credit for low income students scholarship program act to expand student eligibility.
Creating the behavioral health intervention weighting as part of the Kansas school equity and enhancement act.
Creating the Kansas reading readiness act.
Amending the capital improvement state aid schedule to exclude U.S.D. No. 207, Fort Leavenworth, and the students enrolled in a virtual school offered by a school district.
Creating the behavioral health intervention weighting as part of the Kansas school equity and enhancement act.
Creating the Kansas reading readiness act.
Senate Substitute for HB2540 by Committee on Education - Extending the sunset date of the high-density at-risk student weighting; providing requirements for school district at-risk fund expenditures and identification of students eligible to receive at-risk programs and services.
Amending the tax credit for low income students scholarship program act to expand student eligibility.
Substitute for HB 2395 by Committee on K-12 Education Budget - Amending the Kansas school equity and enhancement act and making appropriations to the department of education.
Requirements for school district bullying policies; investigation of complaints.
Requirements for school district construction contracts relating to requests for proposals that specify particular products or particular installation methods.
Enacting the Kansas hope scholarship act.
Making appropriations for fiscal years 2020 and 2021 for the department of education for special education and related services.
Authorizing school districts to expend at-risk education funds on evidence-based learning programs.
Increasing the BASE aid under the Kansas school equity and enhancement act and making appropriations for the department of education.
Appropriations for the department of education for FY 2019, 2020 and 2021; increasing BASE aid for certain school years; continuing 20 mill statewide levy for schools and exempting certain portion of property used for residential purposes from such levy.
House Substitute for SB 142 by House Committee on K-12 Education Budget - Authorizing the state board of education to grant waivers for school districts from the requirement to provide a minimum number of school hours during the school term.
Amending the capital improvement state aid schedule to exclude U.S.D. No. 207, Fort Leavenworth.
House Substitute for SB 16 by Committee on K-12 Education Budget – Making appropriations for the department of education for FY 2019, 2020 and 2021; amending the Kansas school equity and enhancement act and other statutes related to education.
Amending the Kansas school equity and enhancement act by requiring local school boards to notify the state board of education of their intent to increase local option budget authority, calculating supplemental state aid based on current year LOB, eliminating the 10% at-risk floor and eliminating the expanded uses of capital outlay.
Amending the school finance transportation weighting calculation and requiring transportation funding for school districts from the state general fund, not the state highway fund; making and concerning appropriations to the department of education for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2019.
School districts; requiring a portion of local option budget revenue be included in the local foundation aid of the school district.
Amendments to the Kansas school equity and enhancement act; relating to the BASE aid, certain weightings and other school finance provisions.
Amending the Kansas school equity and enhancement act regarding the transportation weighting.
Amending the transportation weighting calculation.
Repealing the statutory limit on state board of education approval of school district bond issuances.
Amending the Kansas school equity and enhancement act regarding local option budget provisions, certain weightings, capital outlay expenditures and repealing provisions of the CLASS act.
Amending the transportation weighting calculation.
Creating the Kansas school financial transparency act.
Amendments to the Kansas school equity and enhancement act; relating to the BASE aid, certain weightings and other school finance provisions.
Repealing the statutory limit on state board of education approval of school district bond issuances.
Amending the Kansas school equity and enhancement act regarding the transportation weighting.
Eliminating the cost estimate of special education services from the performance audit of a reasonable estimate of the cost of providing educational opportunities for every public school student.
Amending the Kansas school equity and enhancement act regarding local option budget provisions, certain weightings, capital outlay expenditures and repealing provisions of the CLASS act.
Remedies for the impairment of a valid water right or permit to divert and use water.
Substitute for HB 2410 by Committee on K-12 Education Budget - Creating the Kansas school equity and enhancement act.
Requiring school district expenditure reporting under the Kansas uniform financial accounting and reporting act.
Expanding the tax credit for low income students scholarship program.
Authorizing school districts to adopt a local activities budget and levy property taxes for the finance thereof.
Requiring school districts use generally accepted accounting principles.
Requiring the adoption of a local foundation budget by each school district and the levying of a property tax for the financing thereof.
Establishing a unified school district employee health care benefits program.
Creating the school district finance and student success act.
Requiring school districts to procure specific spend categories through the department of education.
Enacting the classroom-based funding act.
Administration of school district finance by the state board of education.
School district finance and quality performance act of 2017.
Creating the education finance act.
Administration of school district finance by the state board of education.
Authorizing school districts to adopt a local activities budget and levy property taxes for the finance thereof.
Creating the school district finance and student success act.
Requiring the adoption of a local foundation budget by each school district and the levying of a property tax for the financing thereof.
School district finance and quality performance act of 2017.
Requiring school districts use generally accepted accounting principles.
Creating the education finance act.
Enacting the classroom-based funding act.
Requiring school districts to procure specific spend categories through the department of education.
Establishing a unified school district employee health care benefits program.