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As enacted, requires the commissioner to develop a transition plan for the purpose of planning the return, no earlier than the 2024-2025 school year, of schools in the ASD to the LEAs from which the schools were removed; requires the commissioner to submit the plan to the education committees of the senate and house by January 1, 2021; clarifies that a school that has been placed in the ASD must remain in the ASD until the school is authorized to return to its LEA according to the transition plan. - Amends TCA Title 49.
As enacted, revises various provisions regarding textbooks and instructional materials and the state textbook and instructional materials quality commission. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 22.
As enacted, requires that the family life curriculum adopted by the state board of education or an LEA include information on the prevention of dating violence. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 13.
As introduced, requires the commissioner to obtain approval from the state board of education for any changes to the performance goals and measures for schools and LEAs; requires the department and the state board to seek input from stakeholders regarding proposed changes to performance goals and measures for schools and LEAs; authorizes the state board to promulgate rules to effectuate this bill. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1.
As introduced, requires an LEA to include media literacy skills in a character education curriculum; encourages the department of education to post media literacy resources for LEAs to the department's website. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6.
As introduced, establishes various requirements relating to literacy instruction provided to students in any of the grades kindergarten through two; establishes methods of evaluating the reading proficiency of students in any of the grades kindergarten through three; establishes requirements relating to literacy instruction provided to teaching candidates; establishes various studies and review processes relating to the state's accountability model and the licensure process for teachers. - Amends TCA Title 49.
As introduced, authorizes each LEA and school that offers a firearm safety class or program to elementary-school students to post the curriculum and any corresponding educational materials on the school's or LEA's website. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6.
As introduced, creates the robotics education task force to research opportunities for expansion of robotics education programs in the kindergarten through grade 12 curriculum. - Amends TCA Title 49.
As introduced, requires, beginning with the 2020-2021 school year, each Title I public high school to provide at least one driver education course for its students. - Amends TCA Title 49.
As introduced, authorizes LEAs serving any of the grades three through 12 to offer advanced mathematics courses; requires an LEA that offers advanced mathematics courses to place students achieving a benchmark score as determined by the state board of education on the end-of-grade or end-of-course test in mathematics in an advanced course for the next mathematics course in which the student will enroll; adds other requirements concerning advanced mathematics courses. - Amends TCA Title 49.
As introduced, establishes a reporting date of January 15 of each year for the board of regents, each state university board, and the board of trustees of University of Tennessee to submit a report summarizing grievance activities for the previous year to the education committees. - Amends TCA Title 49.
As introduced, requires the state board of education to develop standards, and the department of education to develop an aligned curriculum, for instruction on healthy relationships in the lifetime wellness standards. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 10.
As introduced, requires organizations to use high-quality instructional materials to be eligible for a LEAP grant; gives preference in the award of LEAP grants to applicants offering summer programs focused on closing literacy gaps among students entering grades one through three. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 7.
As introduced, requires the department of education to submit the annual report detailing the operation of the virtual education programs to the comptroller of the treasury. - Amends TCA Title 49.
As introduced, changes, beginning with the 2020-2021 school year, the counties within which each LEA must implement a program of family life education from counties with a pregnancy rate of 19.5 pregnancies for every 1,000 females ages 15 to 17 to counties with a pregnancy rate of 19.5 pregnancies for every 1,000 females ages 15 to 19; prohibits persons present on school property from making abortion referrals or from otherwise advocating or encouraging abortion. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1; Title 49, Chapter 2; Title 49, Chapter 5 and Title 49, Chapter 6.
As introduced, requires the board to abolish all academic standards for science and social studies for students in kindergarten through grade two; allows the subjects of science and social studies to be incorporated into the curriculum aligned with the academic standards for English language arts for students in kindergarten through grade two. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1.
As introduced, deletes requirement for LEAs to provide a physical education class taught by a licensed teacher with an endorsement in physical education or by a specialist in physical education; deletes reporting requirements; requires each LEA to integrate at least two 25- minute periods of physical activity into each school day. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6.
As introduced, changes from January 31 to January 15 the date by which the department of health must provide the governor's office, the speaker of the senate, and the speaker of the house of representatives a report of the aggregate results of all BMI screenings performed in the previous calendar year. - Amends TCA Title 49.
As introduced, requires the commissioner to give 15 days' notice in writing, instead of 10 days' notice in writing, to a teacher, principal, supervisor, or other official who has been found guilty of immoral conduct, before revoking the person's license. - Amends TCA Title 49.
As introduced, changes from October 1 to September 15, the date by which the commissioner shall notify any school and its respective LEA if the school is among the bottom 10 percent of schools in overall achievement. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1 and Title 49, Chapter 6.
As introduced, requires that students participating in the ESA program be administered the same Tennessee comprehensive assessment program tests administered to nonparticipating students enrolled in public schools. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6 and Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 26.
As introduced, requires each LEA and public charter school governing body to report to the department of education the amount of state and local funds spent on preparing for and administering standardized tests each school year. - Amends TCA Title 49.
As introduced, deletes the family life curriculum required for schools located in certain counties that only allows students to receive education on sexual risk avoidance through abstinence; requires each LEA and public charter school that serves any of the grades kindergarten through 12 to provide students with medically accurate, age-appropriate sex education that teaches students about abstinence, contraception, consent, and how to develop healthy relationships and communication skills. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6.
As introduced, requires students in grades 6-8 to enroll in an introduction to social health course developed by LEAs based on standards developed by the state board of education. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6.
Urges the department of education to enroll students in the Tennessee Education Savings Account Pilot program no earlier than the 2021-2022 school year.
As introduced, revises various provisions relating to public charter schools authorized by the achievement school district. - Amends TCA Title 49.
As introduced, requires a school or LEA to issue required textbooks to all students; requires the director of schools to certify to the commissioner of education by October 15 of each year that all students have been issued all required textbooks. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 3 and Title 49, Chapter 6.
As introduced, requires all school personnel to receive implicit bias in-service training annually; requires students desiring a license to teach to pass a course of implicit bias training. - Amends TCA Title 49.
As introduced, declares it is the intent of the general assembly that the department of education annually receive sufficient funds to procure, implement, and make available to local education agencies at no cost, a statewide career aptitude assessment program; encourages guidance counselors to use the results of career aptitude assessments to discuss potential career opportunities and aligned educational pathways with students. - Amends TCA Section 49-6-412.
As introduced, allows 50 percent of a teacher's annual evaluation criteria to be comprised of other measures of student achievement if excluding student growth evaluation composites generated by assessments administered in the 2020-2021 school year or in any school year thereafter results in a higher evaluation score for the teacher. - Amends TCA Title 49.
As introduced, deletes the Tennessee Education Savings Account Pilot Program. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6.
As introduced, limits the number of Tennessee comprehensive assessment program (TCAP) tests administered to students in grades three through 12. - Amends TCA Title 49.
As enacted, authorizes the state board of education to promulgate emergency rules as necessary to address any issues created by school closures due to the outbreak of COVID-19 during the 2019-2020 school year; requires the commissioner of education to waive certain requirements; establishes other related requirements. - Amends TCA Title 49.
As enacted, permits a student whose IEP or section 504 plan allows for testing accommodations to use the same testing accommodations while taking an assessment under the Tennessee comprehensive assessment program (TCAP) or an end-of-course assessment, as long as the accommodation does not invalidate the assessment. - Amends TCA Title 49.
As enacted, requires the commissioner to develop formative assessment question banks that are aligned to state-mandated summative assessments measuring the academic progress of students; requires the department to make the formative assessment question banks available for use by LEAs. - Amends TCA Title 49.
As enacted, authorizes a local education agency (LEA) to: provide career-based experiences to the LEA's high school students; allow the students to participate in any available career-based experiences; and establish partnerships with industry and local businesses to provide career-based experiences to such students. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6.
As introduced, allows an LEA to choose to administer TCAP tests to its students in a paper format beginning with the 2020-2021 school year if the commissioner authorizes TCAP tests to be administered in a computerized format; requires the department to provide TCAP test materials in a paper format to LEAs choosing to administer TCAP tests in a paper format. - Amends TCA Title 49 and Chapter 475 of the Public Acts of 2019.
Urges the department of education to allow school districts the freedom to select the Response to Instruction and Intervention (RTI²) assessments they use.
As introduced, requires each LEA and public charter school to provide age-appropriate instruction to public school students in kindergarten through grade 12 on the events of September 11, 2001, annually on September 11. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6.
As introduced, requires the department to annually compile a list of courses that may be substituted for certain high school course requirements; requires the department, by April 15 of each year, to distribute the list to each LEA and public charter high school and to the Tennessee higher education commission for distribution to high school counselors and to public institutions of higher education in this state. - Amends TCA Title 49.
As introduced, adds students who attended a nonpublic school or home school for the preceding school year to the category of students eligible for their parent to participate in the individualized education account program. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 10, Part 14.
As introduced, requires the department of education to provide LEAs with access to their students' TCAP and end-of-course assessment items and the students' answers within 60 days following the administration of the assessments; requires an LEA to provide each teacher with access to the teacher's students' assessment information within 90 days following the administration of the assessments; requires that the provided information include all questions posed to students. - Amends TCA Title 49.
As enacted, requires the department of education to develop a state plan for computer science in grades K-12. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6.
As enacted, requires that the Tennessee comprehensive assessment program (TCAP) tests administered in the 2019-2020 school year be administered in paper format; revises provisions regarding physical education. - Amends TCA Title 49.
As enacted, requires students to pass a civics test to receive a full diploma upon graduation from high school; revises and enacts other provisions relating to civics test. - Amends TCA Title 49.
As enacted, revises certain provisions regarding alternative schools. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 13 and Title 49, Chapter 6.
As enacted, requires the department of education and public schools to commemorate the centennial of women's suffrage and recognize the Tennesseans who were instrumental in securing all women the right to vote for the purpose of educating students about the ratification of the nineteenth amendment to the United States Constitution on August 18, 1920, and to educate students on the state of Tennessee's fundamental role in guaranteeing all women the right to vote. - Amends TCA Section 49-6-1028.
As enacted, requires, beginning with the 2019-2020 school year, the state board of education to award a teacher five additional professional development points if the teacher's overall evaluation demonstrates an overall performance effectiveness level of "above expectations" or "significantly above expectations" and the evaluation is based on the teacher's performance while employed at a school that is on the priority list or the focus list. - Amends TCA Title 49.
As enacted, enacts the "Tennessee Education Savings Account Pilot Program." - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6.
As enacted, establishes the Agriculture Education and Youth Participation Task Force. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 11.
As enacted, establishes the Governor's Civics Seal to recognize public schools and local education agencies implementing high-quality civic education programs. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 10.
As enacted, authorizes LEAs that receive pre-kindergarten program approval to utilize a comparable alternative measure of student growth approved by the state board of education and adopted by the LEA, rather than the pre-k/kindergarten growth portfolio model approved by the state board of education in the evaluation of pre-kindergarten and kindergarten teachers; creates portfolio review committee. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 1.
As enacted, expands career and technical education programs to middle school grades; requires the board of career and technical education to plan facilities for comprehensive career and technical training for middle school students. - Amends TCA Title 49.
As enacted, authorizes LEAs to offer internship programs for elective credits in the high school curriculum through cooperative agreements with local and state governments. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6.
As enacted, requires LEAs to provide students and parents of students enrolled in grades 9-12 with certain information regarding college and career experiences. - Amends TCA Title 49.
As enacted, requires that the family life curriculum used in public schools include instruction on the detection, intervention, prevention, and treatment of human trafficking in which the victim is a child; requires each local board of education to require that each teacher employed by the board receive a one-time in-service training on the detection, intervention, prevention, and treatment of human trafficking in which the victim is a child, which must be accomplished through the viewing of a video recording approved by the LEA. - Amends TCA Title 49.
As enacted, authorizes the state board to extend the six-year period required for the standards review and development committees and advisory teams to review the standards for English language arts and mathematics one time for a period not to exceed three years. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1, Part 3.
As enacted, revises provisions governing released time courses. - Amends TCA Title 49.
As enacted, requires the department to develop rules, to be adopted by the state board of education, that include procedures for providing instruction to students incarcerated in juvenile detention centers for a minimum of four hours each instructional day. - Amends TCA Title 37 and Title 49.
As enacted, revises various provisions of the Tennessee Public Charter Schools Act of 2002; creates public charter school commission. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 13.
As enacted, revises the requirements for revocation of a public charter school's charter based on having been identified as a priority school. - Amends TCA Section 49-13-122.
As introduced, changes from October 31 to October 1 the date by which the departments of education and health are required to jointly compile an annual report to the governor and the general assembly of self-administered medications and healthcare procedures. - Amends TCA Title 49.
As introduced, requires the department to release certain percentages of test questions and answers from the Tennessee comprehensive assessment program (TCAP) tests and end-of-course examinations to LEAs and public schools. - Amends TCA Title 49.
As enacted, specifies that a student may only enroll in two course access program courses per school year, unless additional courses are approved by the student's home LEA, and that students must pay all tuition and fees required for any additional courses taken during the same year; requires a home LEA to pay the required tuition and fees to a host LEA for the first two course access program courses in which a student is enrolled per school year. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 18.
As introduced, decreases, from "at least two" to "at least one", the number of physical education class meetings an LEA must require elementary school students to attend each full school week. - Amends TCA Section 49-6-1021.
As introduced, changes the date, from October 1 to September 1, by which the office of coordinated school health in the department of education is required to provide an annual report on the implementation of the minimum physical activity requirements for elementary, middle, and high school students to the education committees of the general assembly. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6 and Title 68, Chapter 1.
As introduced, encourages LEAs to provide an age-appropriate seizure education program to teach students about seizures and seizure disorders; encourages the state board of education to promulgate rules for the development and implementation of seizure education programs. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6.
As introduced, requires LEAs that maintain a website to provide information on training and professional development opportunities available to teachers evaluated using a growth portfolio model on the LEA's website. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1; Title 49, Chapter 2 and Title 49, Chapter 6.
As enacted, requires an LEA to make certain interest inventories available to students in grades five through nine; requires an LEA to administer a career aptitude assessment to students in grades seven or eight. - Amends TCA Section 49-6-412.
As enacted, makes various changes to the state's special education laws; transfers, from the state board of education to the department of education, control over the state's special schools. - Amends TCA Section 4-5-322; Title 49, Chapter 10 and Title 49, Chapter 50.
As enacted, revises the use of student growth data for purposes of a teacher's or principal's annual evaluation; deletes obsolete provisions regarding the use of student growth data; excludes, for the 2018-2019 and 2019-2020 school years, student growth evaluation composites generated by assessments administered in the 2017-2018 school year if the exclusion results in a higher evaluation score for the teacher. - Amends TCA Section 49-1-302.
As introduced, requires the department to create a training program for LEAs and teachers evaluated using a growth portfolio model for pre-K-K teachers; allows an LEA to create an alternative growth portfolio model to measure the academic growth of pre-K-K students. - Amends TCA Title 49.
As introduced, changes, from November 1 to October 1, the date by which the BEP review committee must provide the annual report on the BEP to the governor, the state board of education, the finance, ways and means committees of the senate and the house of representatives, and the education committees of the senate and the house of representatives. - Amends TCA Title 49.
As introduced, imposes a maximum allotment of time for standardized testing each school year based on a student's grade level; excludes assessments used to assess a student's readiness for postsecondary education and assessments required by an LEA or governing body from the maximum time allotments. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 60.
As introduced, requires the department to publish on its website a report of all actions and procedures that have been implemented to ensure all data associated with existing assessments is accurate and timely. - Amends TCA Title 49.
As introduced, directs the department to establish a process by which the department will reimburse the parent of an economically disadvantaged student for fees and costs associated with taking one advanced placement examination that are not otherwise reimbursed, paid, or subsidized by any entity or program. - Amends TCA Title 49.
As introduced, requires the board to develop and adopt two alternative graduation pathways for public high school students, one designated the college preparatory track and one designated the technology track, to be implemented in all public high schools beginning with the 2020-2021 school year. - Amends TCA Title 49.
As introduced, requires an assessment provider responsible for the misadministration of an assessment to provide an incident report to the department and the LEA or LEAs in which the misadministration occurred no later than 30 days after the misadministration of the assessment. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 60.
As introduced, requires that statewide assessment scores used in the calculation of students' final course grade be returned to districts at least five instructional days before the end of the course. - Amends TCA Section 49-1-617.
As introduced, authorizes an LEA to use the ACT or ACT Aspire suites of assessments, instead of state-mandated assessments, to test students in grades nine-12. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1; Title 49, Chapter 2; Title 49, Chapter 3 and Title 49, Chapter 6.
As introduced, allows a local board of education to consider whether the establishment of a new charter school will result in oversaturation of a school zone located within the LEA when considering whether to approve or deny a charter school application. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 13.
As introduced, creates a four-year agriculture education pilot project for 11th and 12th grade students; requires the department to create and administer an educational program focused on agriculture education. - Amends TCA Title 43 and Title 49.
As introduced, allows an 11th grade student to take an examination to assess the student's career readiness in lieu of the postsecondary readiness examination; adds, beginning with the 2019-2020 school year, student achievement on examinations administered to assess career readiness to the measures used to evaluate school and principal performance. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1; Title 49, Chapter 2 and Title 49, Chapter 6.
As introduced, requires the department to create a three-year early learning pilot program, to begin in the 2019-2020 school year, to identify early learning programs that provide opportunities for quality early childhood education and improvement in student outcomes. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 1.
As introduced, authorizes an LEA to use the ACT, ACT Aspire, or SAT suites of assessments, instead of state-mandated assessments, to test students in grades 9-12 in the subjects of math and English language arts. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1; Title 49, Chapter 2; Title 49, Chapter 3 and Title 49, Chapter 6.
As introduced, changes the amount of physical education class time that must be taught by a licensed teacher with an endorsement in physical education from at least 60 minutes to at least 30 minutes; authorizes LEAs to allow additional physical education class time to be taught by a licensed teacher with an endorsement in elementary education to teach any remaining or additional physical education class time in collaboration with a physical education teacher. - Amends TCA Section 49-6-1021.