Legislative Session number- 84

Bill Name: SF1635

Relating to education; requiring the commissioner of education to obtain
a
waiver from the no child left behind act from the federal department
of
education by a certain date, specifying certain waiver request requirements;
requiring the commissioner to notify the legislature by a certain date of the
extent of success in obtaining the waiver and to modify the consolidated state
plan and other agreements for implementing the act affected by the waiver;
requiring the commissioner to report to the legislature by a certain date on
developing certain measures to more effectively implement the act; specifying
certain state initiatives to advance state and federal education goals,
requiring the commissioner to recommend to the legislature by a certain date a
method for integrating early childhood initiatives into the
initiatives;
requiring the commissioner of finance to report to the legislature
by a certain date the amount and purpose of the revenue and services potentially
federally withheld upon the nullification and revocation of the consolidated
state plan to implement the act; appropriating money to the commissioner of
education for supplemental student services to improve student achievement
(mk)