| RI | S0063 | Engross
50% | Establishes the RI ombud for special education who ensures school districts throughout the state meet the minimum standards required to comply with the individualized education programs for students with disabilities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-24
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| RI | H6422 | Intro
25% | House Resolution Creating A Legislative Study Commission To Evaluate And Provide Recommendations On Mandated Safety Protocols For Rhode Island Schools (creates A 21 Member Commission To Evaluate And Provide Recommendations On Mandated Safety Protocol...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-23
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| RI | S0178 | Engross
50% | Creates the Apprenticeship Pathways to Earning a Bachelor’s Degree Act, to enable an individual to earn a bachelor’s degree at public higher education institutions throughout the state by earning credits through apprenticeships.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-28
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| RI | H6307 | Intro
25% | Directs the reversal of the decision to close the Alan Shawn Feinstein Elementary School, the Carl G. Lauro Elementary School and the Gilbert Stuart Middle School.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-21
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| RI | H6235 | Intro
25% | Prohibits discrimination on the basis of race by expanding the definition of race to include traits historically associated with race, including, but not limited to, hair texture and protected hairstyles.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-19
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| RI | H6051 | Intro
25% | Establishes a process public school districts must follow as part of the phase-out or closure of a public school building.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-19
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| RI | H5166 | Intro
25% | Establishes the RI ombud for special education who ensures school districts throughout the state meet the minimum standards required to comply with the individualized education programs for children with disabilities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-19
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| RI | H6253 | Intro
25% | Provides any teacher who is certified in special education – severe intellectual disability, is automatically certified to teach in pre-schools.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-19
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| RI | H6234 | Intro
25% | Allows students to utilize 4 mental health days for mental/behavioral health concerns as an excused absence from school effect on 9/1/23.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-19
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| RI | H6284 | Intro
25% | Provides for the creation of a volunteer school security force.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-19
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| RI | H5739 | Intro
25% | Requires that both curriculum and teaching practices in Rhode Island schools protect and respect the civil rights of all members of the school community.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-29
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| RI | H5774 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Failing School Choice Act, to permit students at failing schools to enroll in any public school. It also establishes the Rhode Island education revitalization fund to provide funding to the school choice program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-29
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| RI | H5856 | Intro
25% | Requires the departments of elementary and secondary education and health to adopt policies/rules/regulations for the administration of seizure rescue medications for children who have been medically identified as having epilepsy/seizure disorder.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-29
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| RI | H5858 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Failing School Choice Act and permits students at failing schools to enroll in any public school and also establishes the Rhode Island education revitalization fund to provide funding to the school choice program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-29
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| RI | H5279 | Intro
25% | Prohibits discrimination in postsecondary education of students, faculty and staff based upon medical or religious vaccine exemptions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-29
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| RI | H6138 | Intro
25% | Provides that degrees from the Community College of Rhode Island be awarded by the board of education, with the approval of the president and the faculty senate.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-29
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| RI | H5688 | Intro
25% | Provides for a parents' bill of rights related to the health, education and welfare of their minor children.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-29
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| RI | H5738 | Intro
25% | Requires that schools develop a program for in-school suspension that sets aside and equips a specialized learning areas in each school.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-29
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| RI | H5859 | Intro
25% | Prevents the state or any governmental entity from infringing on the fundamental rights of parents in the upbringing of their children.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-29
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| RI | H5251 | Intro
25% | Requires all public high schools to offer as part of the curriculum a nutrition food preparation and cooking course. Effective July 1, 2023.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-26
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| RI | H5170 | Intro
25% | House Resolution Strongly Urging The Providence Public School District And The Rhode Island Department Of Education To Reverse The Decision To Close The Alan Shawn Feinstein Elementary School, The Carl G. Lauro Elementary School, And The Gilbert Stua...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-22
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| RI | H5776 | Intro
25% | Provides for a Kosher option for school lunches for public elementary and secondary schools in Rhode Island upon the request of the local school districts.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-22
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| RI | H6053 | Intro
25% | Requires new instruction and annual reports dealing with student mental health throughout the state.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-22
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| RI | H5772 | Intro
25% | Requires parental consent prior to conducting an initial evaluation or making an initial placement of a student in a special education program, as well as prior to changes being made to any IEP services or placement.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-22
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| RI | H5857 | Intro
25% | Updates repealed chapter by requiring school district to develop concussion guidelines; students/parents brochure; removal/return procedures after student removal/return to practice/competition; mandatory training for coaches/officials.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-22
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| RI | H5777 | Intro
25% | Creates a new chapter for the support and access to bilingual education. It creates a dual language program fund to be administered by the department of education. Local education agencies would be eligible to apply to the department for funding.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-22
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| RI | H5498 | Intro
25% | Repeals the establishment of statewide academic standards for core subjects and the implementation into the curriculum of all public schools.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-22
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| RI | H5775 | Intro
25% | Permits local communities to adopt an all-charter school public school model for public education.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-22
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| RI | H5011 | Intro
25% | Provides that parents and guardians of children with disabilities in private school have the same rights and remedies as parents/guardians of children in public school.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-22
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| RI | S0177 | Engross
50% | 2) MAXIMUM CLASS SIZE ACT (Mandates 20 students per classroom for kindergarten through second grade. Exceptions for emergencies and temporary situations, not to exceed 3 days and mid-year enrollments.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-17
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| RI | H5740 | Intro
25% | Assigns additional duties to the commissioner of on postsecondary education, including preparing strategic plan for public higher education provides for equitable distribution of public funds and adopts an outcomes based model.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-15
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| RI | H5669 | Intro
25% | Requires transition planning for high school students with disabilities, who have a "504" plan, like the transition planning required for high school students with disabilities, who have an individualized education program (IEP).
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-15
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| RI | H5670 | Intro
25% | Requires all school districts to have an athletic training, or similarly trained person, at all recreational and athletic events of the school district.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-15
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| RI | H5546 | Intro
25% | Allows schools to maintain on-site an undesignated supply of glucagon for emergency purposes. Provides for training of all school employees in the basics of diabetes care and allows for further training of delegated care aides for students with diabe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-15
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| RI | H5499 | Intro
25% | Creates the anti-bullying bill of rights act which would strengthen protection for students in schools who are victims of bullying.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-15
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| RI | H5547 | Intro
25% | Requires the student advisory council to meet at least quarterly, and exempts the student chairperson from senate advice and consent requirements.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-15
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| RI | H5500 | Intro
25% | Requires elementary schools to provide/maintain onsite functional automated external defibrillators (AEDs) in quantities and types, deemed by the commissioner of education in consultation with the director of health to be adequate for use in emergenc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-08
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| RI | H5084 | Intro
25% | Requires the department of education to develop and make available for use in all schools a mental health curriculum. School districts would be required to provide four (4) hours of mental health instruction to seventh grade students.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-08
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| RI | H5343 | Intro
25% | Requires all public high schools to provide instruction on technical and vocational training.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-08
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| RI | H5501 | Intro
25% | Allows schools to maintain on-site an undesignated supply of glucagon for emergency purposes. Provides for training of all school employees in the basics of diabetes care and allows for further training of delegated care aides for students with diabe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-08
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| RI | H5082 | Intro
25% | Requires school committees to provide transportation for any student who resides two (2) or more miles from school.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-08
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| RI | H5083 | Intro
25% | Directs the council on elementary and secondary education to develop recommendations for a high school curriculum to prepare students for successful postsecondary education and careers in computer science.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-08
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| RI | H5341 | Intro
25% | Allows charter schools to engage in nontraditional approaches to learning, which must be approved by the department of education.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-01
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| RI | H5340 | Intro
25% | Expressly allows college athletes, while they are students, to personally profit from the use of their name, image, and likeness, and prohibits the NCAA from preventing these practices.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-01
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| RI | H5342 | Intro
25% | Requires all public high schools to require students, as part of the curriculum, to enroll in a nutrition course, food preparation course and cooking course during any year of a student's four (4) year enrollment.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-01
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| RI | H5085 | Intro
25% | 2) MAXIMUM CLASS SIZE ACT (Mandates 20 students per classroom for kindergarten through second grade. Exceptions for emergencies and temporary situations, not to exceed 3 days and mid-year enrollments.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-15
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| RI | H5278 | Intro
25% | Increases the number of lockdown drills required to be done in every school from two (2) per school year to four (4) per school year. This act would also eliminate the requirement for two (2) yearly evacuation drills.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-08
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| RI | H5252 | Intro
25% | Removes the towns of Warren and Bristol from school bus district Region III and places Warren and Bristol in school bus district Region V.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-08
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