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As enacted, creates a liability framework for an employer that accepts or employs a student who is participating in work-based learning coordinated through the student's LEA or a state institution of higher education, including, but not limited to, Tennessee colleges of applied technology; establishes a qualified work-based learning student grant program. - Amends TCA Title 49; Title 50, Chapter 6 and Title 67.
As enacted, enacts the "Tom Cronan Physical Education Act". - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1; Title 49, Chapter 2; Title 49, Chapter 5 and Title 49, Chapter 6.
As enacted, authorizes an LEA to offer a noncompulsory gun safety class or program for students in elementary school; prohibits the use or presence of live ammunition or live fire. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6.
As enacted, enacts the "Transparency in Higher Education Act, which requires each state institution of higher education to notify parents of enrolled students of the parent's right to view student records under the federal Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974 on the institution's website. - Amends TCA Title 49.
As enacted, establishes requirements to apply in situations where an assessment is misadministered by fault of the assessment provider; establishes other provisions in regard to required assessments and use of data. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1; Title 49, Chapter 2; Title 49, Chapter 3 and Title 49, Chapter 6.
As enacted, directs LEAs to require schools to provide each high school student in grades 9-12 with a Scholars Prep Guide upon registering for a course. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6.
As enacted, requires that each year at least 30 percent, instead of 70 percent, of the items on state assessments in grades 3-8 and end of course examinations in high school be fresh, nonredundant items that did not appear on the tests in the previous two years, instead of the previous four years for grades 3-8 and the previous three years for high school tests. - Amends TCA Section 49-1-610.
As enacted, revises provisions governing the percentage of student achievement test scores comprising a student's final grade in certain subjects; revises provisions governing situations where certain test scores are not received at least five instructional days before the end of a course. - Amends TCA Section 49-1-617.
As introduced, requires a local board of education to hold a hearing within 30 days of, rather than within a reasonable time after, its receipt of an application for a hearing to contest the reasonableness of a student assignment. - Amends TCA Title 49.
As introduced, removes requirement that an eligible student be previously enrolled in a public school for two semesters prior to receiving an individualized education account, attend a Tennessee school for the first time, or receive an account in the previous school year in order to be considered eligible to receive an individualized education account. - Amends TCA Title 49.
As enacted, revises the date by which the state board of education must require a course in Tennessee history for students from the 2018-2019 school year to the 2019-2020 school year. - Amends TCA Section 49-6-1015 and Chapter 482 of the Public Acts of 2017.
As enacted, revises the Course Access Program Act. - Amends TCA Title 49.
As enacted, authorizes the comptroller of the treasury to audit financial transactions of a charter management organization (CMO); requires all CMOs operating a charter school in this state to file an annual financial report with the comptroller of the treasury no later than August 31 of each year. - Amends TCA Title 49.
As enacted, revises the appointment process and qualifications for membership on the state textbook and instructional materials quality commission; revises other related provisions; schedules the commission to sunset June 30, 2020. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29, Part 2 and Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 22.
As enacted, revises provisions governing special education and special education services associations, - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 10.
As enacted, requires the department and state board of education to provide certain information regarding Bible curricula and courses. - Amends TCA Title 49.
As enacted, specifies that, for the 2017-2018 school year, employment termination and compensation decisions for pre-kindergarten or kindergarten teachers will not be based solely on data generated by the portfolio model; revises provisions regarding funding and approval for LEAs. - Amends TCA Title 49.
As enacted, requires the department to develop, and the state board of education to adopt, a policy establishing a review period for LEAs to review and verify accountability data files and determinations before data files and determinations are released publicly by the department. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1, Part 6.
As enacted, changes the time period a local board of education has to deny or approve a sponsor's amended application from 30 days to 60 days; changes the time period in which the amended application will be deemed approved if the local board of education fails to deny or approve the amended application from 30 days to 60 days. - Amends TCA Title 49.
As enacted, revises provisions governing the standards recommendations committees. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1, Part 3.
As introduced, creates a two-year advanced integrated industrial technology pilot program; establishes a grant for certain students participating in dual credit or dual enrollment courses toward an associate of applied science degree in advanced integrated industrial technology. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4, Part 9 and Title 49, Chapter 8.
Randle Fenimore, State Textbook and Instructional Materials Quality Commission
As enacted, prohibits the department and the state board of education from mandating assessments for any grades or subjects beyond those mandated during the 2016-2017 school year until the 2020-2021 school year. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 60.
As enacted, allows any LEA, rather than just the Metropolitan Nashville public school system, using the career academy or small learning community model to extend career and technical education (CTE) class sizes in grades nine through 12; allows an LEA to seek a waiver from the commissioner of education to extend the CTE class size average in grades nine through 12. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1 and Title 49, Chapter 11.
As introduced, revises quality assurance funding to state institutions of higher education based on the institution's teacher training program outcomes. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 7.
As enacted, specifies that the state board of education is the LEA for those charter schools that it authorizes; requires that the state board receive from the department of education or from the LEA in which the charter school is located, as appropriate, an amount equal to the per student state and local funds received by the department or the LEA in which the charter school is located for the students enrolled in a charter school authorized by the state board. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 2; Title 49, Chapter 1; Title 49, Chapter 13 and Title 49, Chapter 3.
As enacted, requires that instruction on the detection, intervention, prevention, and treatment of child sexual abuse be provided as part of a family life curriculum; provides immunity from a cause of action for such instruction provided by teachers employed by the LEA and certain other instructors in certain circumstances. - Amends TCA Section 37-1-603 and Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 13.
Karen King, State Textbook and Instructional Materials Quality Commission
Kay Kelsey, State Textbook and Instructional Materials Quality Commission
Urges all agencies and institutions of higher education in Tennessee to encourage innovation in lowering the cost of textbooks.
As introduced, requires public charter schools receiving identification as a priority school to develop a school improvement plan within 90 days of identification; revokes a charter school agreement or denies renewal of the agreement if the charter school remains a priority school for two consecutive cycles. - Amends TCA Section 49-13-122.
As introduced, requires the office of research and education accountability (OREA) to investigate and report on unauthorized grade changes occurring at public schools and public charter schools in Shelby County no later than December 31, 2018. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3 and Title 49.
As enacted, specifies that excess instructional time may be used for individualized education program team meetings and school-wide or system-wide instructional planning meetings; requires proposals for use of excess time for instructional planning meetings to be approved by the commissioner of education. - Amends TCA Section 49-6-3004.
As enacted, exempts certain supervisors, principals, and public school teachers from having to take an assessment to advance or renew a teaching license under certain circumstances. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1 and Title 49, Chapter 5.
As introduced, requires use of certain definitions of anti-Semitism and provides examples of anti-Semitism to be used in determinations of violations of K-12 or postsecondary educational policies prohibiting discrimination based on Jewish ancestry or ethnic characteristics. - Amends TCA Title 49.
As introduced, requires LEAs to create a policy to allow a parent or a parent's designee to observe instruction and other school activities involving the parent's student upon request. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6.
As introduced, requires an LEA to offer community colleges and TCATs the opportunity to provide early postsecondary credit courses in the LEA before offering the opportunity to public universities or private institutions of higher education. - Amends TCA Section 49-6-414 and Section 49-7-155.
As introduced, requires TNReady, or future replacements of TNReady or other TCAP assessments, to be administered for one year free of problems in order to be used for student growth data in teacher evaluations. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1; Title 49, Chapter 2 and Title 49, Chapter 5.
As introduced, requires the commissioner to study and make recommendations concerning the availability of electronic textbooks for use of students in elementary and secondary schools to the education committees of the senate and the house of representatives by February 1, 2019. - Amends TCA Title 49.
As introduced, requires the Tennessee financial literacy commission to include information in educational programs designed to improve understanding of mortgages, home-buying tax incentives, and the home-buying process. - Amends TCA Title 49.
As introduced, deletes the requirement for LEAs to provide, at no cost, a list of student names, ages, addresses, dates of attendance, and grade levels completed to a chartering authority or public charter school within 30 days of receiving a request for such information. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 13.
As introduced, changes from February 15 to March 1 the date by which the commissioner of education must submit an annual report summarizing conflict resolution intervention programs to the governor and the education committees of the senate and house of representatives. - Amends TCA Title 49.
As introduced, allows the governing body of a public charter school to make the annual progress report to the sponsor of the school, the chartering authority, and the commissioner of education in an electronic format. - Amends TCA Title 49.
As enacted, requires that each student in grades K-8 be given an individual Scholars Summer Guide prior to the last day of the school year. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6.
As enacted, clarifies that a school may satisfy the summer programming requirement for qualification for a community schools grant by providing four weeks of summer programming during consecutive or nonconsecutive weeks. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 24.
As enacted, requires local education agencies to use at least one alternative growth model that has been approved by the board of education for evaluation of teachers in non-tested grades and subjects; requires the department of education to develop alternative student growth models for grade levels and subjects that do not have growth models. - Amends TCA Section 49-1-302.
As introduced, beginning in the 2018-2019 school year and thereafter, prohibits the administration of end-of-course examinations to students in grades 9 through 12 and establishes the ACT as the only assessment that may be required for graduation. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 60.
As introduced, requires a director of schools to report a breach of security in the administration of the TCAP test, or any successor test, and the LEA's response to the breach of security to the commissioner of education and the state board of education within five days of discovering the breach. - Amends TCA Title 49.
As introduced, limits the number of state-mandated assessments by grade and subject; converts student ACT scores into letter grade equivalents for purposes of calculating certain course grades. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1; Title 49, Chapter 2 and Title 49, Chapter 6.
As introduced, enacts the "Transparency in Charter School Finance Act." - Amends TCA Title 49.
Frank Cagle, State Textbook and Instructional Materials Quality Commission
Neel Durbin, State Textbook and Instructional Materials Quality Commission
As enacted, requires public higher education institutions in this state to adopt a policy to allow American sign language courses to satisfy any foreign language requirements for admission to an undergraduate degree program. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 8 and Title 49, Chapter 9.
As enacted, requires that the location of a charter school be within the jurisdictional boundaries of the authorizing LEA; requires a charter school to seek a delay in opening if the charter school has not secured a physical location 60 days prior to the opening of the charter school. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 13, Part 1.
As introduced, requires the board to promulgate rules allowing a local board of education to meet the 180-day classroom instruction requirement by providing a minimum number of instructional hours per year. - Amends TCA Section 49-6-3004.
As introduced, requires the governing board of each state university, the trustees of the University of Tennessee, and the board of regents to create a policy to provide special education services to students with documented learning disabilities and special needs, including but not limited to tutoring services and career placement guidance. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 7; Title 49, Chapter 8 and Title 49, Chapter 9.
As introduced, requires, beginning in the 2018-2019 academic year, a student enrolled in a state institution of higher education to pass a United States civics test to receive an associate or baccalaureate degree. - Amends TCA Title 49.
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, requires each LEA to develop a policy that details how a student's end-of-course examination scores are weighted and incorporated into a student's final course grade; allows the LEA to not include its students' end-of-course examination scores in a student's final grade if the scores are not received at least five instructional days before the end of the course. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1, Part 6.
William L. Campbell, Sr., State Textbook and Instructional Materials Quality Commission
As introduced, requires the department to create a process to allow LEAs to submit individualized implementation plans for RTI² education. - Amends TCA Title 49.
As introduced, requires the department to provide standardized assessment results no later than two weeks after the date of submission by an LEA for use in teacher effect data, instead of providing raw score data, no later than June 30; requires the department to provide end-of-course examination results no later than two weeks after the date of submission by an LEA. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1, Part 6.
As introduced, specifies which students are eligible to have information shared with an LEA, chartering authority, or public charter school approved to operate one or more schools in the district; creates a timeframe within which an LEA, chartering authority, or public charter school receiving eligible student information may communicate with eligible students. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 13.
As introduced, requires the department of education to report annually on student placement in reading, English language arts, and mathematics classrooms with certain low performing teachers; requires the report to be made public. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 31.
As introduced, requires students to complete one year of instruction in American government and one year of instruction in Tennessee history between grades 7 and 12 to receive a high school diploma, with various exceptions. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6.
As enacted, enacts the "Senator Douglas Henry Tennessee History Act". - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 49.
As enacted, requires, beginning with the 2018-2019 school year, each LEA to make available to its high school students opportunities to take at least four early postsecondary opportunities. - Amends TCA Title 49.
As enacted, creates the Tennessee middle college scholarship, funded by net lottery proceeds. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4.
As enacted, revises provisions governing truancy and attendance supervisors. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 30.
As enacted, adds to and clarifies law concerning teacher training. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 5, Part 56.
As enacted, authorizes a chartering authority to require a charter school sponsor to pay to the chartering authority an application fee of up to $2,500 with each charter school application the charter school files. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 13.
As enacted, enacts the "Tennessee High-Quality Charter Schools Act." - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 13.
As enacted, authorizes the development of curriculum for work-based learning in labor education alignment program. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 7, Part 12.
As enacted, requires the state board to adopt a policy allowing American sign language courses to satisfy the foreign language credits required for graduation. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 10.
As enacted, designates the week of September 17 as "Celebrate Freedom Week" in public schools; requires the department of education to provide LEAs with grade appropriate internet resources and materials for instruction for use during such week; establishes other related requirements. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 10.
As introduced, creates a tuition assistance program from proceeds of the state lottery to develop a two-year pilot program that allows Fairview High School students to participate in dual enrollment at Columbia State Community College and earn an associate degree in advanced manufacturing courses. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4.
As introduced, creates a pilot program to provide grants to elementary and middle schools to implement the Leader in Me® pilot program. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1, Part 2.
As introduced, requires the department of education to form a partnership with a national nonprofit education organization to increase the offerings of rigorous high school classes that prepare students for college and that provide college credit through examination; requires, subject to appropriations, the state to fund payment of college credit examination fees and career and technical certification or licensure examination fees. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1; Title 49, Chapter 2; Title 49, Chapter 3 and Title 49, Chapter 6.
As enacted, clarifies that for purposes of school improvement plans, a school and LEA may choose either the ACT or SAT test scores as one of the assessments for student proficiency. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1.
As enacted, recognizes students who earn a composite score of 19 on the ACT, or an equivalent score on the SAT, and who also earn a capstone industry certification as promoted by the department of education, as a Tennessee Tri-Star Scholar upon graduation; requires schools to recognize the student as a Tennessee Tri-Star Scholar at the school's graduation ceremony. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 60.
As enacted, requires the department of education to provide all state board of education approved teacher training programs access to annual evaluation data for teachers and principals graduating from the programs for a minimum of five years following the completion of the program. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 5.
As enacted, requires the board to create an endorsement in computer science for all teachers who demonstrate sufficient content knowledge in the course material. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1, Part 3 and Title 49, Chapter 1, Part 5.
As enacted, revises provisions governing physical activity requirements for students. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6.
As introduced, authorizes the Tennessee Foreign Language Institute to provide the governor and general assembly written reports in electronic format. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 50, Part 13.
As introduced, extends eligibility for receipt of Wilder-Naifeh technical skills grants to students who are attending certain independent postsecondary institutions and who are otherwise eligible for the grants. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4, Part 9.
As introduced, authorizes the department of education to create a program that allows students enrolled or seeking to enroll in a teacher training program an opportunity to serve as a mentor at a school and for students of families that are recipients of the families first program. - Amends TCA Title 49.
As introduced, requires public and private schools to provide students in grade 12 information on how to register to vote, how to vote in an election using a ballot, and how to vote using an absentee ballot; allows schools to provide this information through activities, written materials, internet resources, mock elections, and any other method chosen by the principal after consultation with teachers. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 50 and Title 49, Chapter 6.
As introduced, urges the department of education to include the proper use and positioning of bicycle helmets in its pilot bicycle safety curriculum. - Amends TCA Title 49.
As introduced, prohibits the administration of standardized tests to students in pre-K-2, unless the tests are used for a diagnostic purpose or required by federal law; prohibits the use of standardized tests for students in K-2 to evaluate a classroom, teacher, school, or school district. - Amends TCA Title 49.
Requests the Department of Education and the State Board of Education to study and report on the best practices of other states relative to funding of programs focused on career preparation and postsecondary opportunities.
As introduced, enacts the "Anti-Semitism Awareness Act." - Amends TCA Title 49.
As introduced, requires the board to adopt rules requiring that local education agencies use the ACT standards for high school English, language arts, math, and science courses and the ACT WorkKeys® and National Career Readiness Certificate™ standards for high school English language arts and math courses. - Amends TCA Title 49.
As enacted, requires state institutions of higher education to develop and implement uniform procedures for awarding academic credit through course equivalencies for military education, training, experience, and occupational specialties; provides methods for implementation. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 7, Part 13.
As introduced, permits students at William R. Moore college of technology to be eligible for the Tennessee Promise scholarship if they meet all requirements for the scholarship or grant. - Amends TCA Section 49-4-708 and Title 49, Chapter 4, Part 9.
As introduced, exempts undergraduate students who are one semester from graduation, in good academic standing at the postsecondary institution, and enrolled in a dual degree program, seeking a double major, or obtaining a minor in military science from losing HOPE scholarship eligibility once the student has attempted 120 semester hours. - Amends TCA Title 49.
As introduced, allows an LEA to petition for an administrative hearing on the merits of the commissioner of education's decision to withhold state funds from an LEA. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 3.
As introduced, prohibits the state board of education from adopting standards or competencies for social and emotional learning; prohibits the department of education from providing instruction or competencies in social and emotional learning to fulfill the requirements for character education. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1, Part 2; Title 49, Chapter 1, Part 3 and Section 49-6-1007.
As introduced, directs the department to develop a parent management program training curriculum that can be offered to recently divorced parents in an after-school setting. - Amends TCA Title 36, Chapter 4 and Title 49.
As introduced, includes teacher evaluations and the student’s performance on assessments while a student of the teacher as factors that determine a student’s assignment to a public school; requires the department of education to conduct a study relative to student placement and teacher effectiveness. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 31.
As introduced, requires the department of education to provide a written report at least annually that details the evidence of validity in teacher evaluations, the areas needed for improvement, and efforts being made to improve validity. - Amends TCA Title 49.
As introduced, clarifies that the office of early learning within the department of education must provide an annual report to the governor and the general assembly on the status of pre-kindergarten programs by March 1 of each year beginning in 2018; requires the department of education to post the report on the office of early learning website by March 1 of each year. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 1.
As introduced, revises various provisions outlining the requirements for operating a home school. - Amends TCA Section 49-6-3050.
As introduced, requires students to pass the United States civics test in order to graduate high school with a regular diploma unless the test is determined inappropriate based on the student's individualized education program. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6.
As introduced, requires the commission to develop a plan, in collaboration with the boards of public universities and community colleges, to address the prevention of unintended pregnancies among older teens and single students. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 7, Part 2.
As introduced, requires students, in order to graduate from a public high school with a regular diploma, to pass the civics test composed of questions from the civics tests administered by the United States citizenship and immigration services to persons seeking to become naturalized citizens. - Amends TCA Section 49-6-408.
As enacted, requires the executive director of THEC to convene a task force to examine the statutory tuition discount and waiver programs offered at public institutions of higher education in Tennessee. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 58; Title 49, Chapter 7; Title 49, Chapter 8 and Title 49, Chapter 9.
As enacted, authorizes the state board of education to promulgate rules for the development of a program whereby 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporations may be recognized for the purpose of assisting LEAs through the selection and appointment of qualified volunteers; requires LEAs to establish a local appeal process through which a recognized 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation may appeal a decision of the LEA to reject the corporation's offer of assistance. - Amends TCA Title 49.
As enacted, requires all LEAs using the uniform grading system for lottery scholarship purposes, and another grading system based on quality points for other purposes, to award additional quality points for honors and other advanced courses uniformly. - Amends TCA Title 49.
As enacted, permits a student with a documented learning disability who is unable to take 12 semester hours as required for the Tennessee Promise scholarship to be eligible for the scholarship. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4.
As enacted, enacts the "Course Access Program Act." - Amends TCA Title 49.
As enacted, enacts the "Tennessee Student Assessment Transparency Act". - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 60.
Jan Brewer, Standards Recommendation Committee for Science
As enacted, allows a student, who has completed at least 60 hours of coursework and is taking a required course for a bachelor's degree designed to train industry professionals in the production of fermented or distilled food or beverage products, to taste alcoholic beverages as part of instruction in the required course, under certain circumstances. - Amends TCA Title 49 and Title 57.
As enacted, requires the principal of a school to allow a patriotic society the opportunity to speak with students during school hours. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 3.
As enacted, revises provisions governing the evaluation of teachers and principals. - Amends TCA Title 49.
As enacted, requires schools to provide notice on their web sites of the date of the school's administration of the AP and PSAT/NMSQT examinations, the availability of such examinations, and any financial assistance for low income students; requires that home school students be permitted to take the AP and PSAT/NMSQT examinations at any public school offering such examinations. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 30.
As enacted, makes certain changes to the requirements for voluntary pre-k programs. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 1.
As enacted, requires the department to provide an annual report to the education committee of the senate and the education instruction and programs committee of the house of representatives, regarding the physical education programs and activity for each LEA. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1; Title 49, Chapter 2 and Title 49, Chapter 6.
Urges Congress to reform federal requirements on high school graduation rates to reinstitute state control.
As introduced, creates a competitive grant program for award of funds for certain charter school and rural school facility projects. - Amends TCA Title 49.
As introduced, creates the Reading Matters pilot program. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 7.
As introduced, creates the "Governor's Three Star Physical Education and Literacy Program." - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1; Title 49, Chapter 2; Title 49, Chapter 5 and Title 49, Chapter 6.
Cathy Kolb, Tennessee academic standards recommendation committee
Shannon Duncan, Tennessee Academic Standards Recommendation Committee
Lauren Nash, state textbook and instructional materials quality commission
David Anthony Pickler, Tennessee Academic Standards Recommendation Committee
As introduced, requires, beginning with the 2017-2018 school year, each LEA to offer students in each of its high schools the opportunity to take at least six early postsecondary credit courses. - Amends TCA Title 49.
As enacted, requires schools having automatic external defibrillators (AEDs) to have annual training in the use of AEDs and an annual CPR/AED drill for school personnel; requires students in junior high or senior high to receive training in the use of AEDs during CPR instruction and, if the school has an AED, participate in a CPR/AED drill; exempts schools operated by or under contract with the department of children's services. - Amends TCA Title 49.
As enacted, requires the state board of education, beginning with the 2016-2017 school year, to approve appropriate computer science courses such as software engineering and computer programming that every candidate for a full high school diploma may enroll in and complete to satisfy the elective focus requirement for graduation. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 60.
As enacted, requires LEAs to provide students with certain periods of physical activity depending on grade level; deletes an obsolete reporting requirement; requires the office of coordinated school health in the department of education to provide an annual report regarding this act. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1; Title 49, Chapter 2 and Title 49, Chapter 6.
As enacted, requires each local school board to adopt a policy on the inclusion of religion in curriculum and instructional materials; requires each LEA to create a syllabus to be made public for grades six through 12 on social studies, science, math, and English language arts courses; requires the state board to initiate a revision process for the social studies standards adopted in 2013; requires teacher training institutions to instruct candidates regarding constitutionally permissible instruction of religious content. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 2, Part 1; Title 49, Chapter 5, Part 56 and Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 10.
Lorrie Graves, Standards Recommendation Committee for Science
Marsha Buck, Standards Recommendation Committee for Science
Mark Weeks, Standards Recommendation Committee for Science
Dr. Kent Gallaher, standards recommendation committee for science
Doris Annette Hurd, standards recommendation committee for science
Susan Bunch, state textbook and instructional materials quality commission
LaToya Pugh, education standards recommendation committee for science
David Barrett, education standards recommendation committee for social studies
Katherine Petko, education standards recommendation committee for social studies
Darcie Finch, Standards Recommendation Committee for English Language Arts and Mathematics
Shirley Currey, standards recommendation committee for English language arts and mathematics
Bill Carey, standards recommendation committee for social studies
Dr. Lyle Ailshie, standards recommendation committee for English language arts and mathematics
Marsha R. Rains, standards recommendation committee for social studies
Douglas Hungate, education standards recommendation committee for English language arts and mathematics
Jason Roach, education standards recommendation committee for social studies
Sally Pardue, education standards recommendation committee for science
Tracy Franklin, education standards recommendation committee for English language arts and mathematics
Amy Gullion, education standards recommendation committee for English language arts and mathematics
Todd Wigginton, education standards recommendation committee for social studies
Kattie Nash, education standards recommendation committee for science
Billie Jeanette Cuervo, education standards recommendation committee for science
Sharen Cypress, education standards recommendation committee for English language arts and mathematics
As introduced, requires the Tennessee financial literacy commission to include information in educational programs designed to improve understanding of mortgages, home-buying tax incentives, and the home-buying process. - Amends TCA Title 49.
As enacted, adds the Tennessee alliance of church related schools to the list of organizations membership in which makes a school a church related school with which homeschools may affiliate. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 49.
As introduced, allows full-time law enforcement officers and firefighters to enroll in one course tuition-free at any state-supported college or university. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 7.
As introduced, allows dependent children of full-time law enforcement officers and firefighters, who are under 24 years of age, to receive a 25 percent discount on tuition to attend any state-operated institution of higher learning. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 7.
Kelsey Cruze Reese, state textbook and instructional materials quality commission
As introduced, adds skateboard safety to the bicycle safety curriculum the department of education is urged to develop. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1 and Title 49, Chapter 6.
As introduced, authorizes LEAs to use the ACT and ACT Aspire suite of assessments instead of the TCAP, TNReady, and end of course exams. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1; Title 49, Chapter 2; Title 49, Chapter 3 and Title 49, Chapter 6.
As introduced, requires an LEA to post on its web site information about the state-mandated tests that will be administered in the upcoming year by no later than June 15, instead of July 15, each year. - Amends TCA Title 49.
As introduced, requires the department of education to annually report on the availability and content of driver education and training courses in public schools to the education committee of the senate and the education instruction and programs committee of the house. - Amends TCA Title 49.
As introduced, prohibits LEAs from requiring high school students to take any standardized test that is not state-mandated or a college admissions test; permits parents of certain students to opt the students out of state-mandated standardized test; requires the office of research and education accountability to update a 2002 report on testing. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1; Title 49, Chapter 2; Title 49, Chapter 3; Title 49, Chapter 5 and Title 49, Chapter 6.
As introduced, requires state institutions of higher education and postsecondary institutions authorized to operate in this state by THEC to permit a student to graduate under the requirements of the catalog in effect at the time the student enters the institution or of any subsequent catalog in effect while the student is enrolled for the student's course of study. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 7.
As introduced, limits the number of days a student may be administered standardized tests to 15 school days per school year. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 60.
As introduced, requires the evaluation algorithms and methodologies used in teacher evaluations to be scientifically valid. - Amends TCA Title 49.
As introduced, requires the department of the treasury and the department of education to determine the liability of LEAs, in which there are charter schools, for retirement benefits for employees not covered under the TCRS; permits an LEA, in which there is a charter school, to withhold from the per student expenditure the amount necessary to fund retirement benefits for those employees not under TCRS for which the LEA bears the financial obligation for retirement benefits. - Amends TCA Title 8 and Title 49.
As introduced, revises provisions governing veterans qualifying for in-state tuition and fees at public institutions of higher education. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 7; Title 49, Chapter 8 and Title 49, Chapter 9.
As introduced, prohibits the local board from requiring student scores on achievement tests to comprise a percentage of the student’s grade in certain subjects; authorizes the local board of education to create a policy to allow student scores on achievement tests to comprise no less than 15 percent and no more than 25 percent of each student’s final grade in the subject area. - Amends TCA Section 49-1-61.
As introduced, requires public institutions of higher education to recognize at graduation students who voluntarily perform community service substantially complying with the rules for community service under the Tennessee Promise scholarship program. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 7; Title 49, Chapter 8 and Title 49, Chapter 9.
As introduced, requires LEAs to have senior year remedial programs for students who test less than college ready on the ACT given in their junior year of high school. - Amends TCA Title 49.
As introduced, requires the department of education to adopt and publish, by August 1, 2015, uniform guidelines to be used by an LEA in which a charter school operates in submitting the LEA's annual report listing underutilized and vacant properties. - Amends TCA Title 49.
As introduced, requires a charter school operator to demonstrate certain student achievement levels before a charter school operator is authorized to operate any other public charter school within either the ASD or an LEA. - Amends TCA Section 49-1-614 and Title 49, Chapter 13.
As introduced, extends the present tuition discount program for children of full-time public school teachers to a child of a full-time active public school teacher who dies while the child is not enrolled in a public institution of higher learning. - Amends TCA Section 49-7-119.
As introduced, permits a child of a state employee or a public school teacher to continue to receive a tuition discount for graduate-level studies if the child graduates with an undergraduate degree within four years of first receiving the discount. - Amends TCA Section 8-50-115 and Section 49-7-119.
As introduced, allows children of full-time public school support staff employees to receive the 25 percent tuition discount that children of full-time public school teachers, full-time LEA technology coordinators, and retired public school teachers receive. - Amends TCA Section 49-7-119.
As introduced, allows a retired law enforcement officer with 25 years creditable service in any law enforcement agency in the state to enroll in one class per semester at any state institution of higher learning without paying tuition and fees. - Amends TCA Section 8-50-114.
As introduced, creates a pilot program to provide grants to elementary and middle schools to implement the Leader in Me® pilot program. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1, Part 2.
As introduced, grants LEAs the same flexibility as public charter schools to allow the LEAs to be more creative and innovative, including the authority to apply for the waiver of laws and state board rules. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1; Title 49, Chapter 13; Title 49, Chapter 2; Title 49, Chapter 3; Title 49, Chapter 5 and Title 49, Chapter 6.
As introduced, urges the department of education to include the proper use and positioning of bicycle helmets in its pilot bicycle safety curriculum. - Amends TCA Title 49.
Highlights the safeguards and related measures provided by the state of Tennessee during the transition to TNReady assessments
As introduced, requires any local board of education that provides electronic textbooks and instructional materials to students to provide the public access to view such materials. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 22.
As introduced, institutes a two-year waiver of the use of student growth data from the TNReady assessment in teacher evaluations; requires the state board, in consultation with the department of education, to study, and to provide a written report on, the TNReady assessment to the education committees of the senate and the house. - Amends TCA Section 49-1-302.
As introduced, expands eligibility for tenure to include a teacher who has been rated "at expectations or above," instead of the levels of "above expectations" or "significantly above expectations." - Amends TCA Title 49.
As introduced, permits students who are not interested in attending a community college, college, or university to opt out of the required 11th grade administration of the ACT. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 60.
As introduced, requires that the department of education provide the student’s teacher, parent, or guardian a report for each student that includes at least 70 percent of the actual test questions, answer options, and the student’s answers; requires the department to make the reports available to the LEA no less than 60 days after the last test is administered. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1; Title 49, Chapter 2 and Title 49, Chapter 6.
Recommends all school administrators, teachers, parents, and students be educated about the potential health impact of heavy backpacks and take proactive measures to avoid injury.
As enacted, requires a student, during the student's high school career, to take a United States civics test. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1; Title 49, Chapter 2 and Title 49, Chapter 6.
As enacted, requires the Tennessee STEM innovation network to establish STEM innovation hubs in rural areas of the state and in Northwest Tennessee; requires the Tennessee STEM innovation network to provide a middle school curriculum on the variety and benefits of STEM careers. - Amends TCA Title 49.
As enacted, enacts the "Individualized Education Act." - Amends TCA Title 49.
As enacted, allows children who will be five years of age after August 15, 2015, but on or before August 31, 2015, and who entered two-year pre-kindergarten programs in the 2013–2014 school year to enter kindergarten programs in the 2015–2016 school year. - Amends TCA Section 49-6-3001.
As enacted, exempts education courses that are solely to prepare students for graduate or professional school entrance exams and professional licensure exams from the Postsecondary Education Authorization Act of 1974. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 7, Part 20.
As enacted, requires the state board of education to implement a process whereby the set of standards known as the Common Core State Standards adopted in 2010 will be reviewed and replaced with new sets of standards; requires the state board of education or the department of education to cancel any memorandum of understanding concerning the Common Core State Standards entered into with the national governor's association and the council of chief state school officers; establishes advisory teams and a standards recommendation committee; revises other provisions regarding curriculum standards. - Amends TCA Title 49.
As enacted, authorizes the state board of education to make policies concerning the revocation of licenses and certificates for misconduct. - Amends TCA Section 49-1-302.
As enacted, requires the governor to designate the first weekend in August of each calendar year as "Tennessee's Weekend of Prayer Over Students." - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 49.
As enacted, enacts the "Racial Profiling Prevention Act." - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 38, Chapter 1 and Section 49-7-118.
As enacted, authorizes a local school board to create a policy that excuses students who request to attend a released time course in religious moral instruction taught by an independent entity off school property. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 2, Part 1.
As enacted, encourages LEAs, in consultation with local law enforcement, to institute at least one domestic violence awareness education program per year for middle and high schools; requires each program to be developmentally appropriate based on the students' age and maturity level. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6.
As enacted, requires the textbook commission to study the age and physical status of textbooks used in public schools of this state and issue a written report to the members of the general assembly, by January 1, 2016, detailing the average age, physical condition, and cost to replace outdated textbooks, and solutions to avoiding the use of textbooks that are over 10 years old. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6.
As enacted, authorizes and encourages local education agencies to adopt as their course of instruction in character education the Congressional Medal of Honor Character Development Program. - Amends TCA Title 49.
As enacted, allows LEAs to opt out of including the student's TCAP scores in the student's final grades if the LEA doesn't receive the scores at least five instructional days before the end of the school year. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1; Title 49, Chapter 2 and Title 49, Chapter 6.
As enacted, halts the closure at the end of the 2014–2015 school year of charter schools on the state's 2015 priority list; makes the 2017 priority list the first list for which charter schools appearing on a priority list must close at the end of the school year. - Amends TCA Title 49.
Urges the State Board of Education to approve teacher training programs for occupational teacher licensure that utilize online components in delivery method.
Recognizing the women in STEM during Women's History Month.
To support passage of the STEM Education Act (H.R. 1020).
As introduced, allows a student's parent or the student's teacher to view a state-required standardized summative assessment taken by the student and the student's answers subject to certain conditions. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1; Title 49, Chapter 2 and Title 49, Chapter 6.
As introduced, specifies that semester hours earned in ROTC courses by ROTC students do not count toward the semester hour limitation for receipt of the Tennessee HOPE scholarship; excludes grades received in ROTC courses from the calculation of an ROTC student's grade point average for Tennessee HOPE scholarship purposes. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4, Part 9.
Robert Kyle Mallory, State Textbook and Instructional Materials Quality Commission
As enacted, requires that the family life curriculum, to the extent that the topic and the manner of communication is age-appropriate, inform students, in all LEAs, concerning the process of adoption and its benefits. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 13.
As introduced, increases charter school application fees from $500 per application to $5,000 for new applications and $1,000 for renewal applications; institutes authorizer fees; requires the department of education to verify annually that LEAs are providing the amount of funding to charter schools required by law; alters LEAs' responsibilities in providing facilities for charter school use. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 13.
As enacted, directs the commissioner of education to develop guidelines for LEAs to create an annual report that informs students of the death of any person 18 years of age or younger who died as a result of a person 18 years of age or younger driving under the influence of an intoxicant or drug. - Amends TCA Section 4-3-2014 and Section 49-1-219.
As enacted, changes references in the code from vocational education to career and technical education; changes references in the code from the board for vocational education to the board for career and technical education. - Amends TCA Section 37-2-417; Title 49, Chapter 1; Title 49, Chapter 11; Title 49, Chapter 12; Title 49, Chapter 3; Title 49, Chapter 5; Title 49, Chapter 50; Title 49, Chapter 6 and Section 62-4-122.
Requests the department of education to study and report on ways local education agencies are implementing the requirements of Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 49-6-1021, which requires 90 minutes of physical activity per week.
As introduced, allows formation of charter schools for students with specific academic needs; allows such charter schools to establish academic admission criteria. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 13.
As introduced, requires students to complete 75 hours of service learning to graduate from high school. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1, Part 2; Title 49, Chapter 1, Part 3; Title 49, Chapter 2, Part 2; Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 12; Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 4 and Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 60.
As introduced, permits a charter school to contract with nonprofit or for-profit entities for the operation or management of the school subject to certain conditions. - Amends TCA Section 49-13-124.
As introduced, requires a student to pass at least three-fourths of the student's high school courses and have fewer than five consecutive or seven total unexcused absences in a semester to be eligible for a driver license. - Amends TCA Section 49-6-3017 and Title 55, Chapter 50.
Susan Bunch, State Textbook and Instructional Materials Quality Commission
Dr. Jason Robinson, State Textbook and Instructional Materials Quality Commission
As introduced, requires a school operated by the achievement school district or a charter school with which the achievement school district contracted for operation of the school to have all grades the school formerly had; prohibits expansion of such school to include other grades. - Amends TCA Title 49.
Commends parent activists on anti-common core victories.
As introduced, creates a study committee to make recommendations on the transition from traditional textbooks to free, online textbooks and course materials by the public higher education institutions. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 7, Part 1.
As introduced, creates a cause of action under the Tennessee Consumer Protection Act for any person suffering a loss as a result of certain deceptive practices by a postsecondary education institution or its agents; requires postsecondary institutions to offer a free two-week online orientation program to certain incoming students. - Amends TCA Title 47, Chapter 18 and Title 49.
As introduced, requires the ASD, or the entity under contract to operate schools within the ASD, to hire teachers assigned to the school, if the teachers are rated in the two highest categories of teacher evaluations; requires the ASD, or entity under contract to operate the school, to hire no more than 30 percent of the school's teachers from this group. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1, Part 6.
As introduced, establishes provisions to govern initial enrollment of students within charter schools authorized by the achievement school district. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 13.
As introduced, requires that any test or item of student work on which a student's grade in a course or subject is based be provided to the student's parent or guardian for review within 40 days of the submission of the test or work for grading. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1; Title 49, Chapter 2; Title 49, Chapter 5 and Title 49, Chapter 6.
As introduced, permits a teacher to review any academic content and materials or student evaluation tools brought into the teacher's classroom or to which a teacher's students are exposed; requires the academic content and materials or student evaluation tools be made available for the teacher's review. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1; Title 49, Chapter 2; Title 49, Chapter 5 and Title 49, Chapter 6.
As introduced, authorizes each local school board to adopt academic standards in mathematics, science, geography, history, reading, language arts, and writing that may be superior or inferior to the academic standards promulgated by the state board of education. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1.
As introduced, revises provisions governing the tenured teacher evaluations that measure overall performance effectiveness. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1; Title 49, Chapter 16; Title 49, Chapter 5 and Title 49, Chapter 6.
As introduced, creates the Tennessee standards commission to recommend curriculum standards to the state board for adoption. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 49.
As introduced, requires a report on the TCAP tests and end-of-course exams to be made available to the LEAs, together with each student's answers, so that a parent and a parent's student may determine the student's areas of deficiency and the school may plan remediation for the student. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1; Title 49, Chapter 2 and Title 49, Chapter 6.
As introduced, permits citizen groups to submit error reports detailing any errors in textbooks used in public schools in this state to the textbooks and instructional materials commission; creates an appeal process before a joint education committee; implements various provisions of law to address errors in textbooks. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6.
As introduced, requires all public school students in grades K-5 to participate in a physical education class at least two times per week. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1; Title 49, Chapter 2; Title 49, Chapter 5 and Title 49, Chapter 6.
As introduced, prohibits public institutions of higher education from disciplining or discriminating against a student in a counseling, social work, or psychology program because the student refuses to counsel or serve a client as to goals, outcomes, or behaviors that conflict with a sincerely held religious belief of the student. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 49, Chapter 7, Part 1.
As introduced, allows parents to petition, subject to certain conditions, for the restructuring of a school through the transformation or turnaround model or as a charter school. - Amends TCA Title 49.
As introduced, permits an LEA that offers a voluntary prekindergarten program to elect to offer the program either in the school year or in the summer. - Amends TCA Title 49.
As introduced, requires the Tennessee Postsecondary Education Fact Book to be published annually prior to March 1, instead of March 15. - Amends TCA Title 49.
As introduced, specifies that the state board's report on LEAs' policies on the use of psychotropic drugs to treat children enrolled in elementary or secondary schools must be reported to the general assembly no later than January 1, 2016. - Amends TCA Title 49.
As introduced, requires any public school that uses a digital-learning platform in the classroom to provide students, parents, or legal guardians a written explanation of the digital-learning platform; authorizes schools to provide parents and legal guardians of students total access to the digital-learning platform; mandates the destruction of all data collected on the student from the digital-learning platform at the end of the course; and allows students to opt out of the digital-learning platform. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1 and Title 49, Chapter 6.
As introduced, requires approval by the senate and the house before new standards or changes to curriculum standards adopted by the state board of education become effective. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1; Title 49, Chapter 2 and Title 49, Chapter 6.
As introduced, revises the provisions governing curriculum standards for K–12 students, such as prohibiting the implementation of the common core state standards and allowing the state board of education to come up with a new set of state academic content standards; creates the academic standards steering committee as a review authority for all legislation and proposals related to academic standards. - Amends TCA Title 3; Title 4; Title 49, Chapter 1, Part 2; Title 49, Chapter 1, Part 3; Title 49, Chapter 1, Part 6; Title 49, Chapter 1, Part 7 and Title 49, Chapter 6.
As introduced, prohibits the use of Measurement Inc. in the development and implementation of assessments in schools; requires that any decision to adopt new assessments to replace TCAP be at the discretion of the general assembly. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1; Title 49, Chapter 2 and Title 49, Chapter 6.
As introduced, requires school districts to develop policies against harassment, intimidation, bullying, or cyber-bullying after consultation with parents, guardians, employees, volunteers, students, administrators, and community representatives; requires schools to adopt the policies that are developed. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 45.
As introduced, prohibits state or locally mandated standardized testing for students in kindergarten through grade two. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 60.
Redirects the endowment funds previously directed to the Lillian and Morrie Moss Chair of Excellence in English Poetry at the University of Memphis to the establishment and ongoing support of a Chair of Excellence in Computer Science at the University of Memphis.
As introduced, authorizes the department of education, in consultation with the state board of education, to create a numerical score above which students shall be deemed proficient; prevents the commissioner of education from identifying a school as a priority school, if the student average within the school is above the numerical score. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1, Part 6.
As introduced, requires K–8 charter schools to return funding to the LEA, at the LEA's request, if the charter school's attrition rate exceeds 200 percent of the average attrition rate for LEA K–8 schools; sets the amount of funding to be returned at all state and local funds attributable to the students above the 200 percent threshold. - Amends TCA Title 49.
As introduced, permits electronic formats of reports on findings and recommendations concerning pilot after-school educational programs by the commissioner of education to the governor and the speakers and education committees of the senate and house. - Amends TCA Title 49.
William L. Campbell Sr., State Textbook and Instructional Materials Quality Commission.
Jason Vance, State Textbook and Instructional Materials Quality Commission
Lauren Nash, State Textbook and Instructional Materials Quality Commission
Craig Hammond, State Textbook and Instructional Materials Quality Commission
As introduced, permits students who are not interested in attending a community college, college, or university to opt out of the required 11th grade administration of the ACT. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 60.
As introduced, requires LEAs to conduct eighth grade conferences with parents and teachers and guidance counselors to discuss high school graduation requirements, to set the classes that the students will take in high school, and to provide information about financial aid for college. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 70.
Cynthia Bryant, State Textbook and Instructional Materials Quality Commission
Kelsey Cruze, State Textbook and Instructional Materials Quality Commission
As introduced, establishes standards review and development committees and advisory teams comprised of Tennessee teachers, higher education faculty members, and parents to propose world-class, highly rigorous K-12 English language arts and mathematics standards for use in public schools. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1, Part 2; Title 49, Chapter 1, Part 3 and Title 49, Chapter 1, Part 6.