Education

Provides that private schools shall not be civilly liable for establishing single-sex restrooms and changing rooms

Changes the term of office for members of the Independence School District school board

Authorizes the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education to establish an agricultural education program for elementary schools

Creates, repeals, and modifies provisions relating to the Missouri Empowerment Scholarship Accounts Program

Requires the Governor to appoint a board of directors to oversee any statewide activities association that facilitates interscholastic activities for secondary school students

Establishes provisions relating to student transfers to nonresident districts

Adopts the "Interstate Teacher Mobility Compact"

Renames the "Missouri Student Religious Liberties Act" the "Missouri Safeguarding Personal Expression at K-12 Schools (SPEAKS) Act" and creates provisions safeguarding students' political and ideological expression at public schools

Modifies the "Workforce Diploma Program" and establishes new provisions regarding adult eligibility for virtual school courses and programs

Creates and modifies provisions relating to access to pornographic materials

Establishes procedures for school districts to test for gifted students

Requires school districts and charter schools to notify parents about the use of tutoring programs or services at least half-owned by entities outside the United States

Prohibits state colleges and universities from employing individuals or engaging contractors who hold H-1B nonimmigrant status

Establishes the Black History Education and Awareness Act and designates the first week in February as Black History Week

Prohibits public school staff members from encouraging students in their social transition to being perceived as a member of the opposite biological sex

Modifies provisions relating to the Missouri Charter Public School Commission

Creates the "Success for Homeless and Foster Youth in Higher Education Act" requiring all public institutions of higher education to designate a homeless and foster student liaison within the institution's financial aid office

Requires summer and day camps to be licensed and to have an emergency plan in place

Creates and modifies provisions relating to student evaluations

Moves school board elections to the November general election

Requires school districts and charter schools to provide instruction on human growth and development

Creates, repeals, and modifies provisions relating to elementary and secondary education

Creates new provisions relating to public school employees and labor organizations

Creates the "Keep Our Schools Safe Act" regarding school safety

Establishes the "Missouri Healthy Schools Act" and prohibits public schools from serving, selling, or allowing a third party to sell ultraprocessed food during the school day

Requires the Governor to appoint a board of directors to oversee any statewide activities association that facilitates interscholastic activities for secondary school students

Increases the debt limit for school districts

Authorizes parents to choose the school that their children attend

Amends the Constitution to assert the right of parents to participate in and direct the education of their children free from government interference

Prohibits diversity-equity-inclusion requirements in school districts and charter schools

Establishes the Vulnerable Child Compassion and Protection Act prohibiting discussion of certain topics by school personnel

Requires public schools and charter schools to provide free feminine hygiene products to female students in grades 4-12

Authorizes a tax credit for certain educational expenses

Requires public schools to provide instruction in human growth and development

Requires the Missouri Higher Education Loan Authority to file its annual financial report with the Joint Committee on Education

Authorizes school districts and charter schools to provide instruction in cursive writing

Creates and modifies provisions relating to lactation accommodations in public schools and charter schools

Modifies provisions relating to providing explicit sexual material to a student

Requires certain topics in Native American and African American history to be included in the seventh through twelfth grade history curriculum in public schools

Authorizes a sales tax for special educational services

Authorizes a property tax for special educational services

Establishes provisions relating to the reconsideration of materials in a public library or public school library

Requires the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education to ensure that safety assessments are conducted on all public schools located in St. Louis City or St. Louis County

Requires certain financial information regarding the Missouri Empowerment Scholarship Accounts Program to be posted semi-annually on the Missouri Accountability Portal

Provides for the establishment of an early education school district in St. Louis County

Requires schools that receive state funds to give students excused absences for attending scheduled elections with their parents

Repeals provisions relating to the statewide assessment system

Requires the State Board of Education to convene a work group to develop a curriculum framework of instruction on the dehumanization of marginalized groups

Creates, repeals, and modifies provisions relating to workforce development initiatives

Creates and modifies provisions relating to the participation of certain students in nontraditional educational settings

Creates, repeals, and modifies provisions relating to elementary and secondary education

Creates, modifies, and repeals provisions relating to student transfers to nonresident districts

Modifies provisions of the Higher Education Core Curriculum Transfer Act

Requires public schools to develop cardiac emergency response plans

Creates and modifies provisions relating to responsibilities of publicly funded elementary and secondary educational entities

Modifies provisions relating to the department of higher education and workforce development

Prohibits a political subdivision from adopting policies for property transferred by political subdivisions from being used for lawful education purposes by a charter school

Establishes the "Career-Tech Certificate (CTC) Program"

Requires school districts and charter schools to display the Ten Commandments in every building and classroom under their jurisdiction

Modifies provisions relating to public school background checks

Prohibits public institutions of postsecondary education and proprietary schools from requiring the submission of diversity, equity, and inclusion statements

Prohibits student use of telecommunications devices during regularly scheduled instructional activities

Modifies provisions governing public school teachers

Prohibits obscene or harmful materials from being accessible to minors in public schools and charter schools

Establishes the "Missouri Healthy Schools Act" and prohibits public schools from serving, selling, or allowing a third party to sell ultraprocessed food during the school day

Creates and modifies provisions relating to school safety

Modifies the appointment of teacher representatives to the State Board of Education

Requires the University of Missouri to enter into an agreement with the State Treasurer to establish a separate custodial account for moneys in the University's Seminary Fund

Requires charter schools to obtain a certificate of need issued by the State Board of Education in order to be eligible to operate

Requires school districts and charter schools to adopt written policies governing students' use of electronic personal communications devices

Adds Teachers of Tomorrow to the list of certificating entities from which the State Board of Education shall accept a teacher's credentials

Modifies provisions relating to the Missouri Empowerment Scholarship Accounts Program

Lowers the age for adult high schools from 21 to 18

Requires school districts and charter schools to display the Ten Commandments in every building and classroom under their jurisdiction

Modifies provisions relating to the Access Missouri Financial Assistance Program

Repeals the 2027 expiration of a provision of law prohibiting students from participating on an athletic team that is designated for the opposite biological sex

Authorizes parents to choose the school that their children attend

Prohibits school districts from using a three-cueing system model of reading instruction

Creates and modifies provisions relating to access to pornographic materials

Requires public institutions of higher education to adopt a policy relating to International Baccalaureate examinations

Requires schools that receive state funds to give students excused absences for attending scheduled elections with their parents

Requires the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education to post on its website any memorandum of understanding or other agreement with a third party

Creates the Committee on School Safety

Amends the Constitution to assert the right of parents to participate in and direct the education of their children free from government interference

Requires all public school shower rooms, locker rooms, and restrooms to be designated for and used by male or female students only

Authorizes a tax credit for certain educational expenses

Requires the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education to ensure that safety assessments are conducted on all public schools located in St. Louis City or St. Louis County

Modifies provisions relating to adult high schools

Modifies provisions relating to charter schools

Changes the mission of Missouri Southern State University

Establishes the "Cronkite New Voices Act" to protect the freedom of press in school-sponsored media

Prohibits diversity-equity-inclusion requirements in school districts and charter schools

Provides that Veterans Day shall be a public holiday for all employees of the University of Missouri System

Authorizes a property tax for special educational services

Provides for the establishment of an early education school district in St. Louis County

Authorizes a sales tax for special educational services

Establishes the Vulnerable Child Compassion and Protection Act prohibiting discussion of certain topics by school personnel

Creates the "Missouri School Meals Act" requiring public schools to provide free lunches to certain students

Creates a provision relating to education funding

Repeals provisions authorizing the establishment of charter schools in Boone County

Changes provisions related to funding for charter schools

Modifies provisions related to computer science courses offered in elementary and secondary schools

Modifies the calculation of the amount a school district with one or more pupils attending a charter school shall pay to the charter school

Establishes the "Save Women's Sports Act" relating to female-only athletics in middle school, high schools, and colleges

Modifies provisions related to charter schools

Creates provisions related to public school curriculum and instruction

Modifies provisions relating to school activities

Requires in-state public educational institutions to grant undergraduate course credit for students who score 3 or higher on advance placement examinations

Prohibits public institutions of higher learning from discriminating against a religious student association or denying a religious student association any benefit available to any other student association

Modifies provisions relating to services and programs for gifted children

Transparency in public education

Establishes the Extended Learning Opportunities Act

Allows school innovation teams to submit plans for school innovation waivers

Requires certain public schools, charter schools, and public institutions of higher education to post suicide prevention phone and text numbers on student identification cards

Modifies provisions relating to dual credit and dual enrollment courses

Modifies provisions regarding employment information provided to graduates of institutions of higher education

Modifies provisions relating to public health, including public health orders and COVID-19 school policies

Establishes transfer procedures to nonresident districts for students in public schools

Creates provisions related to curricula and instruction in public schools

Modifies and creates provisions regarding the use of certain training, instructional, and curricular materials in public schools and charter schools

Modifies provisions relating to the offense of providing obscene material to a student

Modifies provisions related to school operations

Enacts provisions relating earned school credit in out-of-classroom learning experiences

Authorizes the Gasconade R-II school district, which crosses county boundaries, to use the county that yields the highest dollar value modifier under the school foundation formula

Establishes the "Imagination Library of Missouri Program"

Modifies provisions regarding the compulsory attendance age for school from seven to five

Requires school districts to conduct criminal background checks on certain adults seeking enrollment in courses taught at public schools

Establishes the Show Me Success Diploma Program, the Competency-Based Education Grant Program, the Competency-Based Education Task Force, and a competency-based credit system for high school students

Modifies provisions related to computer science courses offered in elementary and secondary schools

Modifies provisions regarding literacy and reading instruction

Authorizes school districts to have differentiated teacher pay schedules

Creates provisions relating to bonded indebtedness of school districts

Provides for school innovation waivers to exempt schools from specific requirements imposed by statute or regulation

Allows the enrollment of nonresident students in public school districts

Creates provisions allowing the division of seven-director school districts and urban school districts into subdistricts

Requires certain topics in Native American and African American history to be included in the seventh through twelfth grade history curriculum in public schools

Provides for school innovation waivers to exempt schools from specific requirements imposed by statute or regulation

Establishes "The Parents' Bill of Rights for Student Well-Being" and modifies other provisions of elementary and secondary education

Establishes the Education Savings Account Program

Modifies requirements related to school accountability measures in elementary and secondary education institutions

Creates provisions regarding accountability requirements for public schools and establishes the School Accountability Board

Allows students to attend multiple public summer school programs non-concurrently

Establishes the "School Freedom Act" relating to COVID-19 policies in schools

Establishes the "Missouri Empowerment Scholarship Accounts Program."

Changes provisions relating to elementary and secondary education

Modifies the boundaries of certain community college districts

Modifies the calculation of the amount a school district with one or more pupils attending a charter school shall pay to the charter school

Establishes the Workforce Diploma Program to assist students in obtaining a high school diploma and in developing employability and career and technical skills

Permits recording certain meetings by a student's parent or legal guardian

Modifies provisions related to literacy and reading instruction

Changes provisions related to funding for charter schools

Requires drivers on a public highway to stop for certified Head Start buses

Authorizes the Gasconade R-II school district, which crosses county boundaries, to use the county that yields the highest dollar value modifier under the school foundation formula

This bill relates to elementary and secondary education

Relating to Workforce Development and Education

Establishes the "Campus Intellectual Diversity Act" to create offices of public policy events at each public institution of higher education

Modifies provisions relating to continuing education in youth suicide awareness and prevention for teachers

Requires the State Board of Education to develop a statewide plan for minimum requirements for career and technical education certificates

Establishes transfer procedures to nonresident districts for students in public schools

Establishes a grievance process for parents and guardians of elementary and secondary school students

Modifies requirements that school districts conduct criminal background checks for persons having contact with students

Creates provisions requiring video cameras on certain elementary and secondary school buses

Creates provisions allowing the division of seven-director school districts and urban school districts into subdistricts

Modifies the board of governors for Missouri Western State University

Establishes the Show Me Success Diploma Program as an alternative graduation pathway for high school students

Modifies provisions relating to the transfer of students within districts and between districts

Creates provisions related to liability claims in educational settings

Modifies the definition of weighted average daily attendance used to calculate state aid for school districts

Modifies provisions relating to reimbursement of special education costs of high need children

Requires school districts with a certain number of gifted students to establish a state-approved program for such students

Modifies provisions regarding employment information provided to graduates of institutions of higher education

Modifies provisions regarding the statewide mission and board of governors of Southeast Missouri State University

Allows Northwest Missouri State University to develop a statewide mission

Modifies provisions relating to literacy and reading instruction in elementary and secondary education

Prohibits public institutions of higher learning from taking certain adverse actions against belief-based student associations based on such association's belief-related leadership requirements

Establishes the Charter Public School Commission Revolving Fund

Establishes the Missouri Empowerment Scholarship Accounts Program

Replaces the student representative on the Board of Curators of the University of Missouri with a student curator

Establishes the Missouri Empowerment Scholarship Accounts Program and modifies provisions related to charter schools

Designates the third week of September as "Historically Black College and University Week" in Missouri

Modifies provisions relating to services for certain students

Permits recording of IEP or Section 504 meetings by a student's parent or legal guardian.

Requires the State Board of Education to develop a simplified annual school report card for each school attendance center

Requires each school district to ensure that the elementary and secondary schools provide instruction in cursive writing

Modifies provisions relating to exemptions from statutes governing proprietary education

Removes increases in the amount received from fines for school purposes from the calculation of local effort for school districts.

Excludes certain administrative penalties from the calculation of local effort in Iron County.

Modifies provisions relating to elementary and secondary education.

Allows school districts and charter schools to receive state school funding under the foundation formula for high school students who are taking competency-based credit

Permits recording certain meetings by a student's parent or legal guardian

Requires each local school district and charter school to have a policy for reading success plans for certain pupils in grades kindergarten through four

Modifies provisions related to workforce development in elementary and secondary education

Requires every school in the St. Louis City school district to use a response-to-intervention tiered approach to reading instruction for students struggling to read

Permits any seven-director school district, or any urban school district, to divide into subdistricts and provide for the election of subdistrict board members

Establishes the "Workforce Diploma Program" to assist students in obtaining a high school diploma and in developing employability and career and technical skills

Modifies the calculation of average daily attendance for early childhood education programs

Modifies provisions relating to student enrollment in virtual school programs

Requires students participating in any single-gender event or activity organized by a statewide activity association to participate in the event corresponding to the student's biological sex

Prohibits public institutions of higher education from offering in-state tuition to any student unlawfully present in the United States

Modifies provisions governing school district and charter school course materials and instruction on human sexuality and sexually transmitted diseases

Authorizes the Gasconade R-II school district, which crosses county boundaries, to use the county that yields the highest dollar value modifier under the school foundation formula

Creates seven subdistricts within the St. Louis City school district

Modifies provisions relating to charter schools

Requires public schools to teach students appropriate online behavior.

Excludes any money reimbursed to school districts for the costs of special education from the calculation of average daily attendance

Implements a process for due process proceedings for Title IX complaints at institutions of higher education

Modifies provisions relating to contracts for government facilities

Modifies provisions relating to workforce development

Allows school districts to implement alternative methods of instruction to avoid make-up days.

Creates certified teacher externships.

Creates new provisions relating to STEM education.

Allows school districts to offer elective social studies courses on the Hebrew Scriptures and the New Testament.

Prohibits local school districts from setting an opening date for the school term that is more than 14 calendar days prior to the first Monday in September.

Modifies provisions relating to elementary and secondary education.

Allows school districts and charter schools to receive state school funding under the foundation formula for high school students who are taking competency-based credits

Requires the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education to remit to schools the revenues such schools would have received from income taxes on certain financial institutions

Establishes the "Cronkite New Voices Act."

Establishes the School Turnaround Program to assist schools in need of intervention

Modifies provisions relating to the determination of state school aid

Creates a workgroup to develop and recommend academic performance standards relating to workforce development

Requires school districts to conduct criminal background checks on all volunteers

Requires each local school district and charter school to have on file a policy for reading intervention plans for any pupils of the district and charter schools in grades kindergarten through four

Provides that no public school shall be a member of at statewide activities association if such association prohibits a home school student from participating in any event or activity offered by a public school in the school district in which the student resides

Modifies several provisions relating to elementary and secondary education

Modifies provisions relating to higher education

Modifies provisions relating to the attachment of school districts to community college districts

Modifies provisions relating to reading intervention in schools

Modifies provisions relating to boards and commissions

Allows students to possess and self-apply sunscreen at school without a parent or physician's approval

Enacts certain provisions relating to career and technical education

Enacts certain provisions relating to innovation schools

Creates the Education and Job Training Television Broadcast Fund for the purpose of education and job training

Enacts certain provisions relating to school administrators

Enacts certain provisions relating to alternative special needs services for elementary and secondary education students

Allows students enrolled in virtual institutions to participate in the Access Missouri Financial Assistance Program

Requires course materials and instruction relating to human sexuality and sexually transmitted diseases to contain information about sexual harassment, sexual violence, and consent

Creates an advisory council to make recommendations to the State Board of Education regarding assessments and learning standards for certain students

Modifies provisions relating to course access in education

Modifies provisions relating to elementary and secondary education

Modifies provisions relating to virtual education

Modifies provisions relating to teacher employment

Prohibits school districts from setting an opening date for the school term that is more than ten calendar days prior to the first Monday in September

Requires the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education to report certain information relating to virtual education

Requires the State Board of Education to assign classification designations to charter schools in the same manner as school districts are assigned such designations

Allows any taxpayer of the state of Missouri to initiate an action pursuant to grievance procedures at any state college or university in the state of Missouri

Creates provisions relating to student mental health at public institutions of higher education

Establishes the Missouri Promise Scholarship Act

Enacts certain provisions relating to career and technical education

Provides that no public school shall be a member of a statewide activities association if such association prohibits a home school student from participating in any event or activity offered by a public school in the school district in which the student resides

Requires certain school districts to have a process that allows parents to appeal a determination that their child does not qualify for a gifted education program and to establish a policy for acceleration for certain students

Requires the State Board of Education to develop a simplified annual school report card for each school attendance center

Allows high school students to fulfill one unit of academic credit with a computer science course for any required math or science unit

Creates several provisions relating to suicide awareness and prevention

Excludes funds designated by taxpayers in an urban district as early childhood education funds from the local tax revenue calculation used to provide funding to charter schools that declared themselves as a local education agency

Requires a student to receive instruction in Braille reading and writing as part of his or her individualized education plan unless instruction in Braille is determined not appropriate for the child

Modifies provisions relating to higher education

Allows students enrolled in virtual institutions to participate in the Access Missouri Financial Assistance Program

Modifies provisions relating to child care facilities

Modifies provisions relating to elementary and secondary education

Modifies school districts' local effort figures

Modifies the process by which travel hardships are granted to public school pupils

Modifies provisions relating to virtual public schools

Modifies provisions relating to virtual education

Provides that a statewide athletic association shall not prohibit a home school student from participating in any event or activity offered by a public school in the school district in which the student resides

Modifies several provisions relating to elementary and secondary education

Creates the "Academic Freedom and Whistleblower Act"

Requires that all school restrooms, locker rooms, and shower rooms accessible for use by multiple students shall be designated for and use by male or female students only

Authorizes the Gasconade R-II school district, which crosses county boundaries, to use the county that yields the highest dollar value modifier under the school foundation formula

Provides that each school district may rely on technical coursework and skills assessments developed for industry-recognized certificates and credentials when establishing career and technical education offerings

Creates the Every Child Can Learn Act to require turnaround options for certain underperforming schools, create personalized learning plans for certain students, address student promotion, and require letter grades for public schools

Requires higher education institutions to inform students and employees about affirmative consent to sexual activity

Subject to appropriations, requires the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education to subsidize the exam fee for first-time takers of the high school equivalency degree exam

Establishes several provisions relating to higher education

Modifies several provisions relating to higher education financial aid for members of the military and their families

Requires the governing board of each public institution of higher education to enter into a memorandum of understanding concerning sexual assault, domestic violence, dating violence, and stalking involving students on and off campus

Subject to appropriations, requires the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education to subsidize the exam fee for those taking the high school equivalency degree exam for the first time

Establishes several provisions relating to financial assistance for dual enrollment courses

Creates the Missouri Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics Initiative

Requires the State Board of Education to develop a simplified annual school report card

Requires the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education to develop training guidelines and school districts to adopt a policy for youth suicide awareness and prevention education

Reauthorizes a tuition grant program for spouses and children of war vetarans

Requires the Department of Higher Education to create guidance regarding notice of public employee eligibility for public service loan forgiveness

Modifies provisions relating to certain degree programs at certain higher education institutions

Requires the State Board of Education to assign classification designations to individual attendance centers

Modifies provisions relating to governing boards for unaccredited school districts

Allows each school district may rely on technical course work and skills assessments developed for industry-recognized certificates and credentials when establishing career and technical education offerings

Requires the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education to report in the statewide longitudinal data system the percentage of students in each school district who have received all required immunizations

Requires the Department of Higher Education to create guidance regarding notice of public employee eligibility for public service loan forgiveness

Modifies provisions relating to instruction in human sexuality and sexually transmitted infections

Requires higher education institutions to inform students and employees about affirmative consent to sexual activity

Modifies the retirement allowance calculation for members of the Public School Retirement System with thirty-one or more years of service

Requires that any standards developed by the State Board of Education for the purposes of determining a child's eligibility for special educational services shall allow the consideration of trauma as a result of experience in foster care

Modifies requirements relating to the pursuance and acceptance of grants by public school districts

Modifies the definition of "current operating expenditures" for the purposes of state funding and applies the definition of "average daily attendance" to charter schools

Requires the Department of Higher Education to develop and maintain website containing certain information on institutions of higher education

Modifies the composition of the Career and Technical Education Advisory Council

Modifies provisions related to University of Missouri extension councils

Modifies several provisions relating to elementary and secondary education

Creates the Missouri Teen Dating Violence Prevention Education Act to educate teens about dating and domestic violence

Creates the Missouri Parent/Teacher Involvement Program to provide grant awards to schools to develop and build trusting relationships between families and school staff

Requires all public school restrooms, locker rooms, and shower rooms be designated for and used by male or female students only

Modifies the requirements for school antibullying policies

Modifies the law relating to school start dates

Modifies the Higher Education Academic Scholarship Program by expanding eligibility requirements and by adding the option of receiving forgivable loans

Creates an instructional waiver review board for the University of Missouri System

Modifies provisions relating to the boards of regents of state colleges and universities and broadens the degree-granting authority of Harris-Stowe State University

Requires a student to be a United States citizen or permanent resident in order to be eligible to receive reimbursements from the A+ Schools Program

Modifies provisions relating to urban school districts

Proposes a constitutional amendment guaranteeing parents the fundamental right to control the education of their minor children

Modifies provisions relating to political subdivisions

Modifies provisions relating to elementary and secondary education

Modifies provisions relating to career and technical education

Modifies provisions relating to students with special needs

Creates the Missouri Empowerment Scholarship Accounts Program

Creates the Equal Opportunity Scholarship Program to provide scholarships to students from unaccredited school districts for certain educational costs

Enacts multiple provisions to protect the privacy of student data

Establishes privacy protection for student information used by school service providers of websites, mobile applications, or online services

Requires high school students and students seeking a high school equivalency certificate to receive a passing grade on a basic civics test

Modifies requirements for school antibullying policies and modifies provisions relating to reading instruction and student promotion in certain school districts

Prohibits public higher education institutions from denying religious student associations benefits available to other student associations

Changes the requirements for school antibullying policies

Modifies provisions relating to the education of gifted children

Allows students to enroll in another school district or charter school for purposes of attending virtual courses or programs

Modifies provisions relating to elementary and secondary education

Modifies provisions relating to high school equivalency degree testing

Allows school districts and charter schools to establish and implement an age-appropriate curriculum to educate students about domestic violence and teen dating violence prevention

Requires the State Board of Education to develop a simplified annual school report card for each school attendance center using a letter grade of A to F

Modifies provisions relating to the employment of teachers in school districts

Modifies provisions relating to state funding for education

Allows the Carthage School District to transfer unrestricted funds from the incidental to the capital projects funds in the 2014-2015 school year to complete student safety-related projects

Modifies the laws relating to school purchases

Requires each public institution of higher education to annually report the institution's administrative costs as a percent of its operating budget

Modifies the duties of the State Board of Education and requires the board to promulgate rules regarding student data accessibility

Modifies provisions relating to elementary and secondary education standards and assessments

Removes the expiration date on the authority of certain public higher education institutions to transfer real property, except in fee simple, without General Assembly authorization

Restricts the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education from including certain data from neglected children and delinquent children in the aggregate data of a school district

Requires the Joint Committee on Education to conduct a study of the Bright Flight Scholarship, Access Missouri Financial Assistance Program, and the A+ Schools Program

Requires the Department of Higher Education to develop a program to offer information technology certification through technical course work

Prohibits the State Board of Education, the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, and school districts from implementing the Common Core State Standards

Requires that members of the State Board of Education be elected instead of appointed

Requires that members of the State Board of Education be elected instead of appointed

Modifies how the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education provides the high school equivalency examination

Modifies the composition of the University of Missouri Board of Curators

Creates the Equal Opportunity Scholarship Program to grant scholarships to students from unaccredited school districts for certain educational costs

Allows students to enroll in another school district or charter school for purposes of attending virtual courses or programs

Modifies provisions relating to school accreditation and student transfers

Modifies provisions relating to student transfers, school accreditation, and charter schools

Modifies provisions relating to student transfers, school accreditation, and charter schools

Modifies provisions relating to elementary and secondary education

Modifies provisions relating to transient students

Adds a weight for gifted education to the elementary and secondary education funding formula

Allows local school boards to adopt a year-round educational program

Allows the Senate to remove the Commissioner of Education by a vote of two-thirds of its members

Requires the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education to designate accredited school districts to which an unaccredited district must provide transportation for transfer students

Changes the requirements for school antibullying policies

Provides that charter school sponsors are responsible for all expenditures associated with the closure of a charter school they sponsor

Modifies provisions relating to agriculture

Modifies duties of boards of education

Creates a model for funding the state's public institutions of higher education

Modifies provisions of the A+ Program, Bright Flight Scholarship Program, and the Access Missouri Financial Assistance Program

Allows school districts and charter schools to receive state aid for children ages three to five who are eligible for free and reduced lunch and are participating in a district-operated pre-kindergarten program

Modifies provisions relating to higher education

Requires the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education to develop guidelines for the training of school employees in the care needed for students with diabetes

Modifies provisions relating to school accreditation for failing school districts

Requires the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education to issue an annual report card for each public school that rates the school with a grade of A, B, C, D, or F

Creates a pilot program for support of nonprofit math and science tutoring centers in St. Louis City

Modifies provisions relating to sexual education

Removes the expiration date on the authority of certain public higher education institutions to transfer real property, except in fee simple, without General Assembly authorization

Allows certain exempt higher education institutions to receive state recognition from the Coordinating Board for Higher Education

Repeals a reference to an obsolete section of law

Allows local school boards to adopt a year-round educational program

Changes the requirements for school anti-bullying policies

Requires children in the St. Louis City School District and Kansas City School District to attend school at age five

Allows school districts and charter schools to establish and implement an age-appropriate curriculum to educate students about domestic violence and teen dating violence prevention

Provides that charter school sponsors are responsible for all expenditures associated with the closure of a charter school they sponsor

Modifies the use of student assessment data when calculating a school district’s performance when a school district receives students as a result of a change in district boundary lines

Requires the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education to establish a voluntary prekindergarten program

Modifies provisions relating to education

Transfers the administration of special education due process hearings from the State Board of Education to the Administrative Hearing Commission

Modifies provisions relating to the transfer of property by certain state universities

Requires schools to implement specified criteria regarding the enrollment and educational success of foster care children

Requires a school district to include in its annual school accountability report card whether it has a state-approved gifted education program or services and the number of students served

Modifies how school districts maintain vacant or unused school buildings

Changes the laws regarding school accreditation by authorizing the State Board of Education to establish an alternative governing structure for a failing school district

Changes the laws regarding proprietary schools

Changes the laws regarding state contracts and statewide student assessment results

Changes the laws regarding the investigation of a report of child abuse that arises from a spanking in a school

Changes the laws regarding investment contracts of the Missouri Higher Education Savings Program

Provides that no more than two of the voting members of the Board of Regents of Northwest Missouri State University may be residents of the same county

Allows students to enroll in another school district or charter school for purposes of attending virtual courses or programs

Requires the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education to establish a voluntary prekindergarten program

Repeals the June 30, 2012 sunset clause for the Children's Vision Examination Program

Modifies provisions relating to alternative educational procedures for charter schools

Changes the requirements for school anti-bullying policies

Modifies provisions relating to sexual education

Requires the school board of each school district and charter school to establish an evaluation system for teachers and teaching

Requires children in the St. Louis City School District and Kansas City School District to attend school at age five

Allows the Special Administrative Board governing the St. Louis City School District to sponsor charter schools under certain circumstances

Requires kindergarten attendance at the start of the school year for children who turn age five at any time during the calendar year

Provides that home school students will receive the same consideration as non-home school students for purposes of higher education financial aid

Modifies the composition of the Coordinating Board for Higher Education, Board of Curators of the University of Missouri and the governing board of Missouri State University

Establishes the Nursing Education Incentive Program and authorizes a nonrenewable advanced placement grant to certain recipients of financial aid under the A+ Schools or Access Missouri programs

Modifies provisions relating to education

Modifies provisions relating to charter schools

Modifies the composition of the board of directors of the Kansas City School District

Creates the Early High School Graduation Scholarship Program for public high school students who graduate from high school early

Changes the laws regarding charter schools and establishes the Missouri Charter Public School Commission

Modifies provisions relating to education

Increases the statutory award amount for Alzheimer's disease research projects funded by the University of Missouri Board of Curators

Creates the Council on Digital Inclusion

Requires the Joint Committee on Education to oversee a task force on teacher compensation and effectiveness

Creates the Advanced Placement Incentive Grant

Modifies provisions relating to charter schools

Requires school districts to implement criteria for the enrollment and educational success of foster care children

Exempts the St. Louis City School District from the requirement that an unaccredited school district pay tuition and transportation for students who attend an accredited school under certain circumstances

Requires children in the St. Louis City School District to attend school at age five

Requires kindergarten attendance at the start of the school year for children who turn age five at any time during the calendar year

Provides that certain aliens will receive in-state tuition at college and universities that meet certain requirements

Allows a school district, after 10 years, to sell as surplus any real property that has been donated to it if the donor refuses the district's offer to return it

Authorizes certain specified individuals in addition to the school superintendent to issue a student work certificate

Increases the statutory award amount for research projects funded by the University of Missouri Board of Curators

Exempts certain students who are dependents of recently retired military personnel from the three-year attendance at a state school requirement for eligibility for a grant under the A+ Schools Program

Transfers the administration of the Minority Teaching Scholarship and the Minority and Underrepresented Environmental Literacy Program to the Department of Higher Education

Modifies provisions relating to elementary and secondary education funding and planning processes

Modifies provisions relating to school districts charging tuition for non-resident children of district teachers and employees

Creates the Amy Hestir Student Protection Act

Changes the laws regarding school funding

Requires the Joint Committee on Education to conduct a study on voluntary prekindergarten in Missouri

Establishes the Missouri Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Initiative within the Department of Higher Education

Allows school districts that lost days due to H1N1 influenza in the 2009-2010 school year to not have to make up those days

Changes the requirements for school anti-bullying policies

Modifies provisions relating to charter schools

Requires the State Board of Education to establish school improvement standards to be used by charter school sponsors to annually evaluate charter schools

Requires the Joint Committee on Education to conduct a study on the issue of standards for elementary and secondary education

Modifies provisions relating to gifted education

Adds an additional weight for gifted education to the elementary and secondary education funding formula

Modifies the distribution of funds through the elementary and secondary education foundation formula when appropriated funds are insufficient or when funds are withheld

Proposes a constitutional amendment to modify the composition of the State Board of Education

Requires schools to report certain student enrollment information to the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education

Requires public higher education institutions to annually report on steps taken to ensure intellectual diversity