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2006 SESSION
SB 61 Standards of Quality; support services staff ratios.
Introduced by: W. Roscoe Reynolds | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED SENATE: (all summaries)
Standards of Quality; Standard 2, support services staff ratios. Amends Standard 2 of the Standards of Quality to (i) provide the same staffing levels for elementary school principals as middle and high school principals, i.e., one each full-time to be employed on a 12-month basis; (ii) increase the staffing level for assistant principals to one full-time assistant principal for every 400 students to obtain the same staffing levels in elementary, middle, and high schools; (iii) require one reading specialist per 1,000 students in kindergarten through grade 12; and (iv) require speech-language pathologists to be employed in sufficient numbers to ensure a caseload that does not exceed 60 students per position.
Current funding levels for these support staff positions are: one half-time principal per 299 students in an elementary school; one half-time assistant principal in an elementary school per 600 students, one full-time assistant principal in an elementary school per 900 students, and one full-time assistant principal in middle and high schools per 600 students; and one reading specialist per elementary school at the discretion of the local school board. Currently, speech-language pathologists are not required by statute.
A second enactment clause requires that the provisions of this act will not become effective unless the 2006 appropriation act, as it becomes law, includes funding for such provisions.
FULL TEXT
- 01/03/06 Senate: Prefiled and& ordered printed; offered 01/11/06 067039808 pdf | impact statements
- 02/10/06 Senate: Printed as engrossed 067039808-E pdf | impact statement
AMENDMENTS
HISTORY
- 01/03/06 Senate: Prefiled and& ordered printed; offered 01/11/06 067039808
- 01/03/06 Senate: Referred to Committee on Education and Health
- 01/12/06 Senate: Reported from Education and Health with amendments (11-Y 0-N)
- 01/12/06 Senate: Rereferred to Finance
- 02/08/06 Senate: Reported from Finance with amendment (15-Y 0-N)
- 02/09/06 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
- 02/09/06 Senate: VOTE: (39-Y 0-N)
- 02/10/06 Senate: Read second time
- 02/10/06 Senate: Reading of amendments waived
- 02/10/06 Senate: Committee amendments agreed to
- 02/10/06 Senate: Engrossed by Senate as amended SB61E
- 02/10/06 Senate: Printed as engrossed 067039808-E
- 02/13/06 Senate: Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/13/06 Senate: VOTE: (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/13/06 Senate: Communicated to House
- 02/14/06 House: Placed on Calendar
- 02/14/06 House: Read first time
- 02/14/06 House: Referred to Committee on Education
- 03/06/06 House: Left in Education