| RI | H7909 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- THE EDUCATION EQUITY AND PROPERTY TAX RELIEF ACT - Provides that in local educational agencies when over 45% of the children have a family income that is at or below 185% of federal poverty guidelines then the student success factor will...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-04
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7914 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- FAILING SCHOOL CHOICE ACT - 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 sc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-04
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7913 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- FOUNDATION LEVEL SCHOOL SUPPORT - Modifies the current law to allow for approval of construction projects within school districts, rather than needing the project to be commenced by a certain date, permitting the municipality to take adv...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-04
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | S2569 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- FOUNDATION LEVEL SCHOOL SUPPORT [SEE TITLE 16 CHAPTER 97 -- THE RHODE ISLAND BOARD OF EDUCATION ACT - Changes the formula to determine the state's share of educational cost by adding 3 new variables to the formula.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-01
To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S2524 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- SCHOOL COMMITTEES AND SUPERINTENDENTS - Allows a school district to establish a school year that is the equivalent of one hundred eighty (180) days through the use of longer school days or a combination of longer school days and shorter ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-01
To Senate Education Committee |
| RI | S2558 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- THE EDUCATION EQUITY AND PROPERTY TAX RELIEF ACT - Adds multilingual learners into the determination of high-need students and provides a student success factor of twenty-five percent (25%) of the core instruction per-pupil amount and re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-01
To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S2660 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- FAIRNESS IN WOMEN'S SPORTS ACT - Categorizes women by their biological identity at birth rather than their gender identity for purpose of organized sports.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-01
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S2565 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- FOUNDATION LEVEL SCHOOL SUPPORT - Provides the state's share of the basic program and approved expenditures would be paid to the city of East Providence in twelve (12) monthly installments.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-01
To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S2594 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- THE EDUCATION EQUITY AND PROPERTY TAX RELIEF ACT - Adds to the determination of the need to support high-need students a separate and independent qualifying factor of whether the student is an English language learner as defined by the d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-01
To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S2528 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- THE RHODE ISLAND BOARD OF EDUCATION ACT - Adds the Rhode Island teacher of the year as a voting member on the Rhode Island Board of Education.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-01
To Senate Education Committee |
| RI | S2521 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- COUNCIL ON POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION - Directs the commissioner of postsecondary education to prepare a strategic plan for public higher education which is aligned with the goals of the board of education's strategic plan.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-01
To Senate Education Committee |
| RI | S2517 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- FAILING SCHOOL CHOICE ACT - 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 sch...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-01
To Senate Education Committee |
| RI | S2532 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- SCHOOL COMMITTEES AND SUPERINTENDENTS - Permits school districts to use release days for professional development; provided that, instruction time meets the yearly requirement of one thousand eighty (1080) instructional minutes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-01
To Senate Education Committee |
| RI | S2580 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- TEACHERS' RETIREMENT - Allows for a one-time two percent (2%) supplemental cost of living adjustment for plan year 2025 to the public pension benefits administered by the ERSRI, and allows for those benefits to be deducted from the taxpa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-01
To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S2601 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- THE EDUCATION EQUITY AND PROPERTY TAX RELIEF ACT - Amends the method for the calculation of the permanent foundation education aid to school districts, and would make an adjustment based upon students residing in qualified low-income hou...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-01
To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S2597 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- THE EDUCATIONAL EQUITY AND PROPERTY TAX RELIEF ACT - Provides for an appropriation by the general assembly in the amount of two million dollars ($2,000,000) to the various school districts and municipalities to employ additional social w...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-01
To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S2560 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- RESIDENCE OF CHILDREN FOR SCHOOL PURPOSES - Relieves East Providence from providing any educational/financial resources to children in the CRAFT program or other Bradley Hospital programs. Requires the school district of origin where the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-01
To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S2522 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- RIGHTS OF STUDENTS ACT - Provides protections for students and parents against discrimination on the basis of a religious viewpoint or religious expression in schools. Allows students to pray or engage in religious activities before, dur...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-01
To Senate Education Committee |
| RI | H7438 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- CHILDREN WITH DISABILITIES - Establishes a task force managed by the children’s cabinet to develop recommendations to improve access to early intervention and early childhood special education services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-28
To House Education Committee |
| RI | H7514 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- SUPPORT AND ACCESS TO BILINGUAL EDUCATION ACT - Creates a new chapter for the support/access to bilingual education. It creates a dual language program fund to be administered by the department of education. Local education agencies woul...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-28
To House Education Committee |
| RI | H7308 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- MAINTENANCE OF ORDER ON CAMPUS - Mandates arming campus police at public higher educational institutions and includes campus police in the definition of "law enforcement officer" for the purposes of the "Law Enforcement Officers' Bill of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-27
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H7670 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- THE COLLEGE CRUSADE SCHOLARSHIP - Changes the name of The College Crusade Scholarship to the Onward We Learn Scholarship and provide that those scholarships would not be considered federal or financial aid with regard to the Promise Scho...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7687 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- TRANSPORTATION OF SCHOOL PUPILS BEYOND CITY AND TOWN LIMITS - Allows an individual school district that can utilize its own buses or vendors at a lower cost than the statewide system, to obtain reimbursement for these costs from state fu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | S2286 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- THE EDUCATION EQUITY AND PROPERTY TAX RELIEF ACT - Amends the local share of education funding to be paid to charter public schools based on a comparison of performance data between the specific school from which the student is coming an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
To Senate Education Committee |
| RI | S2285 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- COUNCIL ON POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION - Prohibits discrimination in postsecondary education of students, faculty and staff based upon medical or religious vaccine exemptions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
To Senate Education Committee |
| RI | S2346 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- THE EDUCATION EQUITY AND PROPERTY TAX RELIEF ACT - Provides local education agencies (LEAs) hiring site-based specialists for reading and math to receive state reimbursement based on enrollment and specific guidelines.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S2320 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- FEDERAL AID - Establishes new programs for free breakfast and lunch meals in all public schools.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S2284 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- INNOVATION SCHOOLS - Allows for the establishment of innovation schools for the purpose of improving school performance and student achievement through increased autonomy and flexibility.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
To Senate Education Committee |
| RI | S2321 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- THE EDUCATION EQUITY AND PROPERTY TAX RELIEF ACT - Establishes a new categorical funding category for civics education.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S2308 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- TEACHERS' RETIREMENT - Enables school teachers, state and municipal employees to retire earlier.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S2357 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- THE EDUCATION EQUITY AND PROPERTY TAX RELIEF ACT - Provides that in local educational agencies when over 45% of the children have a family income that is at or below 185% of federal poverty guidelines then the student success factor will...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S2334 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- POSTSECONDARY TUITION ASSISTANCE FOR SHORTAGE TEACHING FIELDS - Creates a postsecondary tuition assistance for shortage teaching fields.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S2287 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- COUNCIL ON ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION - Requires the student advisory council to meet at least quarterly, provides the chairperson with equal voting powers as members on the council, and provides that a student under eighteen (18...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
To Senate Education Committee |
| RI | S2290 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- HIGHER EDUCATION OPPORTUNITIES FOR STUDENTS WITH DISABILITIES - Establishes the Higher Education Opportunities for Students with Disabilities Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
To Senate Education Committee |
| RI | S2364 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- THE EDUCATION EQUITY AND PROPERTY TAX RELIEF ACT - Requires a review by the department of elementary and secondary education of the formula components used to compute the aid needed to support high need students.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S2291 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- THE NATHAN BRUNO AND JASON FLATT ACT - Provides that in the event of the death of an educator or a student, a local educational agency be given up to five (5) days after the death to implement a flexible school schedule for teachers and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
To Senate Education Committee |
| RI | S2289 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- COUNCIL ON POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION - Prohibits colleges and universities from withholding a student's transcript due to the student failing to pay any expenses owed to the college or university but permits the withholding of a student's ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
To Senate Education Committee |
| RI | H7592 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- TEACHERS' RETIREMENT - Extends the sunset provision of § 16-16-24.2 to June 20, 2026.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7594 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- BILINGUAL, DUAL LANGUAGE AND WORLD LANGUAGE TEACHERS INVESTMENT ACT - Authorizes the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education to establish a program to expand the issuance of teaching certificates to bilingual dual language and w...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7593 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- SCHOOL FUNDS AND PROPERTY - Directs the department of education to develop and adopt regulations for energy capable school buildings.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7354 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- COOPERATIVE SERVICE AMONG SCHOOL DISTRICTS -- CHARTER SCHOOL REFORM - Allows charter schools to engage in nontraditional approaches to learning, permits local communities to adopt all-charter school public school model for public educati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To House Education Committee |
| RI | H7291 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- RHODE ISLAND EARLY CARE AND EDUCATION WORKFORCE DATA ACT - Codifies the previously funded Rhode Island early care and education workforce registry data system.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To House Education Committee |
| RI | H7543 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- FOUNDATION LEVEL SCHOOL SUPPORT - Provides the state's share of the basic program and approved expenditures would be paid to the city of East Providence in twelve (12) monthly installments.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7292 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- TRANSPORTATION OF SCHOOL PUPILS BEYOND CITY AND TOWN LIMITS - 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] | 2024-02-07
To House Education Committee |
| RI | H7545 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- THE EDUCATION EQUITY AND PROPERTY TAX RELIEF ACT - Provides for an appropriation by the general assembly in the amount of two million dollars ($2,000,000) to the various school districts and municipalities to employ additional social wor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7497 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- RHODE ISLAND PREKINDERGARTEN EDUCATION ACT - Establishes guidelines for the continued implementation and expansion of high quality public prekindergarten education programs in the state.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-02
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7214 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- HEALTH AND SAFETY OF PUPILS -- SEIZURE SAFE SCHOOLS ACT - 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
To House Education Committee |
| RI | H7397 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- THE EDUCATION EQUITY AND PROPERTY TAX RELIEF ACT - Provides that the permanent foundation educational aid program would provide state funding for school-based mental health services pursuant to specified conditions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7196 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- THE NATHAN BRUNO AND JASON FLATT ACT - Requires public school districts to adopt a policy for responding to the death of a student or staff member. Also amends the title of chapter 16-21.7 to "The Nathan Bruno, Jason Flatt, and Alicia Bi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
To House Education Committee |
| RI | H7147 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- CURRICULUM - 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
To House Education Committee |
