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1998 SESSION

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SB 168 Business and education partnerships.

Introduced by: Emily Couric | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles

SUMMARY:

Business and education partnerships. Establishes the Business and Education Grants Program and Fund, from such funds as may be appropriated for the purpose and from gifts, donations, grants, bequests, etc., to support 16 matching grants to be awarded annually on a competitive basis to school divisions, with two grants for each superintendent's region, to support innovative partnerships between school divisions and local business and industry and a special nonreverting fund within the state treasury known as the Business and Education Grants Fund ("the Fund"). The Fund will be established on the books of the Comptroller, and any moneys remaining in such Fund at the end of the biennium will not revert to the general fund but will remain in the Fund. Interest earned on such funds shall remain in the Fund and be credited to it.

The State Treasurer shall administer and manage the Fund, subject to the authority of the Board of Education to provide for its disbursement. The Board shall establish criteria for making grants from the Fund, which shall include priorities for initiatives that consider curriculum revisions integrating theory and application, an accelerated academic program for all students, heightened sensitivity to student potential, interdisciplinary cooperation among teachers in planning and instruction, family involvement, additional assistance for students to meet curriculum standards, the identification of business needs, new ideas for preparing skilled employees, and creative ways to use existing resources. The Board may issue such guidelines governing the Program as it deems necessary and appropriate.

This measure was a recommendation of the HJR 196 Commission on the Future of Public Education.


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