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« on: June 13, 2022, 10:04:20 PM »
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EDJUMICATION ENHANCEMENT ACT


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TITLE I: RULES FOR TEACHERS


1. No public school teacher or substitute teacher, teaching aid, faculty, or staff in the Southern Region shall be considered to have a property interest in their position. Every three (3) years a public school teacher in the South shall be subject to a performance evaluation to determine his or her effectiveness at classroom instruction and student discipline. Such evaluation shall determine if the teacher's performance has been satisfactory, unsatisfactory, or above satisfactory, as determined by each State. For teachers determined to be unsatisfactory the evaluation shall include recommendations for how the teacher might improve, including but not limited to additional professional training, classroom monitoring, or reassignment. Any teacher determined to be unsatisfactory shall be subject to an additional performance evaluation after two (2) years. If such additional evaluation again finds unsatisfactory performance by the teacher the evaluation may recommend additional opportunities for improvement or it may recommend the termination of the teacher. Nothing in this paragraph shall prohibit the termination of a teacher for cause, including but not limited to disciplinary action, elimination of the teaching position, or other lawful reason unrelated to the performance evaluation. Any public school system in the Southern Region may implement or adopt a policy of awarding merit pay increases to teachers receiving an evaluation of above satisfactory.

2. No public school teacher or substitute teacher, teaching aid, faculty, or staff, shall be permitted to withhold a student's assignment grades and scores used to calculate overall class grades or pass/fail determination from the student's parent or guardian upon a reasonable request for such information. For purposes of this paragraph, withholding means refusing to provide the requested information within one (1) week of the actual receipt of the request. Failure to provide the information, without just cause shall subject the teacher to disciplinary action including up to termination.

3. It shall be a misdemeanor punishable by no more than one (1) year imprisonment for any public school teacher or substitute teacher, teaching aid, faculty, staff, or adult volunteer to engage in consensual sexual acts with an adult student who is receiving instruction at the school at which such teacher, teaching aid, faculty, staff, or adult volunteer works. If the teacher, teaching aid, faculty, staff, or adult volunteer engages in non-consensual criminal sexual acts with an adult student including committing rape, sexual assault, or infected sexual battery against the adult student, such crime shall be punished according the same general guidelines for such crime. For purposes of this paragraph coercing or threatening student to engage in sexual acts, including but not limited to threats of unfair treatment, grading, or supervision at the school, promises of better treatment, grading, or supervision, denial of privileges at school, promises of additional privileges, or promises to withhold information from a parent, shall be deemed a non-consensual criminal sexual act.


TITLE II: RULES FOR STUDENTS


1. No public school student in the Southern Region shall be considered to have a property interest or a privacy interest in a locker assigned to him or her by a public school nor a privacy interest against sniff searches by drug dogs.

2. A student enrolled in a public school in the Southern Region who is experiencing displacement due to homelessness shall have the option to remain in his or her current or most recent school for the rest of the school year or enroll in the neighborhood school where he or she is staying.

3. Any student enrolled in a public school in the Southern Region who is eligible for the federal free or reduced lunch program shall be evaluated by school staff to determine if the student is also eligible for any other federal, Regional, or State welfare program or benefit. If the evaluation determines that such student is eligible for other programs or benefits, the school shall notify the parents or guardians of such student of such eligibility and shall offer to assist the parents or guardians in applying for such program or benefits. If after thirty (30) days of notification the parents or guardians have not applied for such program or benefit and have not expressly refused to allow their child to participate in the program or benefit, then the school shall, to the best of its abilities, apply for the program or benefit on the student's behalf.

4. No public school teacher or substitute teacher, teaching aid, faculty, staff, or adult volunteer shall require a student who cannot pay for a meal at school or who owes a school meal debt to throw away or discard a meal after it has been served to him, do chores or other work to pay for such meals, or wear a wristband or hand stamp to announcing the student's inability to pay. No such student shall be denied the opportunity to participate in any extracurricular school activity or denied the opportunity to graduate and recieve a diploma to which he or she is entitled, merely because the student cannot pay for a meal at school or owes a school meal debt. No school board or employee thereof shall file a lawsuit against a student because the student cannot pay for a meal at school or owes a school meal debt. Any communication relating to a school meal debt shall be directed to the student's parents or guardians. Such communication may be made by a letter addressed to the parents or guardians to be mailed or sent home with the student. Any school board may solicit and receive any donation or other funds for the purpose of eliminating or offsetting any school meal debt at any time and shall use any such funds solely for such purpose.

5. No public school student who becomes pregnant shall be suspended or denied access to the public school in which they are enrolled because of such pregnancy. Any such student shall be provided with take home class assignments for the duration of any pregnancy related absence the same as if the student were facing an excused healthcare related absence.


TITLE III: RULES FOR CURRICULMN


1. This act shall not change or modify any law or regulation governing existing public school curriculmn unless expressly modified by or in conflict with a new provision herein.

2. The minimum curriculum required to be offered for any public school system in the Southern Regions shall include the following:

A.  English: Grades 1-12

B. Math: Grades 1-12

C. Career Course or vocational training course: At least two (2) high school grades

D. Natural Sciences: Grades 1-12

E. Social Studies including State history, Southern History, Atlasian History, Civics, World History, Geography, and economics: Grades 1-12

F. Computer Science: At least one (1) high school grade

G. Foreign Language: At least four (4) middle or high school grades

H. Health: At least two (2) middle or high school grades

I. Physical Education: Grades 1-10

3. Any public school system in the Southern Regions shall be permitted to offer regular and advanced high school diplomas to students who satisfactorily pass the requisite number of classes for such diplomas.

A. A regular diploma shall be awarded upon the completion of 12th grade to any student who has satisfactorily passed at least three (3) high school classes each in English, math, the natural sciences, and social studies, as well as at least two (2) years each in foreign language, health, and physical education, as well as at least one (1) class of either computer science or a career course.

B. An advanced diploma shall be awarded upon the completion of 12th grade to any student who has satisfactorily passed at least four (4) high school classes each in English, math, the natural sciences, and social studies, as well as at least three (3) years in foreign language, as well as at least two (2) years each in health, and physical education, as well as at least one (1) class of either computer science or a career course.

C. For purposes of degree requirements, a class specifically in computer programming or Atlasian Sign Language (ASL) shall be considered a foreign language class.

D. For purposes of degree requirements, participation in an extracurricular school or intramural sports team for an entire season shall be considered a physical education class.

E. For purposes of degree requirements, participation in an approved extracurricular 4-H program, ROTC program, or work apprenticeship program shall be considered a career course.

F. Any class or course on modern world history or Atlasian history shall include at minimum: two (2) hours of instruction on the holocaust and related Nazi genocides, two (2) hours of instruction on the holomodor and other Marxist-inspired genocides, one (1) hour of instruction on the Armenian, Assyrian, and Greek Genocides of the Ottoman Empire, and two (2) hours of instruction on modern genocides including those in the former Yugoslavia, the Sudan, and the genocide of the unborn resulting from abortion.

G. Any class or course on State history, Regional history, or Atlasian history shall, when discussing the War Between the States include instruction on the multitude of causes of such war, including States' Rights, unfair tariffs, slavery, and regional factionalism.

H. No class or course on State history, Regional history, Atlasian history, world history, or civics shall include instruction or materials based on the 1619 project.

I. Any class or course on the natural sciences that includes instruction on the theory of evolution must include instruction that the theory of evolution is merely a theory. Any State may require such instruction to give comparably fair instruction in intelligent design and other alternative hypotheses provided such instruction similarly mentions that such hypotheses are merely a theory.

J. Any classroom instruction by school personnel or third parties on sexual education, sexual orientation, or gender identity may not occur in pre-school through grade 5 or in a manner that is not age-appropriate or developmentally appropriate for students. For purposes of this act, mere references to pronouns, marriage, families, childbirth, or adoption shall not be considered classroom instruction. For purposes of this act, personal pictures of a spouse, child, or family member of school personnel displayed by the teacher on a desk or in a work area shall not be considered classroom instruction. Nothing in this act authorizes or permits the disciplining or firing of school personnel due merely to such personnel's sexual orientation or gender identity.

4. Nothing in this act shall be interpreted as prohibiting a public school system from offering dual enrollment classes that simultaneously earn a student public school and college credit, or from offering additional classes or courses as part of its curriculmn, unless otherwise prohibited by law.

5. Nothing in this act shall be interpreted as requiring any public school system to adopt or conduct any standardized test to comply with this act. States may choose to adopt standardized testing provided such tests are not based on common core curriculumn or do not contain questions about curriculmn based on concepts of social emotional learning (SEL), culturally-responsive teaching, or other concepts prohibited by law, including but not limited to critical race theory and the 1619 project.

6. Any State that chooses to adopt standardized testing in social studies shall include the following question on any such test other than world history in each grade in which the test is offered: True or False: Kansas is a Southern State? with the correct answer being True.

7. Any State that chooses to adopt standardized testing in social studies shall include the following the question on any such test in Southern history or Atlasian history in each grade in which the test is offered: Which of the following reason led to the War Between the States? A. States' Rights B. Unfair tariffs C. Slavery D. All of the above. with the correct answer being D. All of the above.


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« Reply #1 on: June 13, 2022, 10:04:56 PM »


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TITLE IV: STUDENT DISCIPLINE


1. Any public school that disciplines a student other than by a verbal warning shall notify the parents or guardians of such student in writing within five (5) days of the occurence of such punishment. The teacher or faculty member conducting any such discipline shall meet with the parents or guardians of such student upon their request to discuss the actions giving rise to the discipline.

2. No public school shall susepend or expel or decline to suspend or expel a student pursuant to a neutral written policy authorizing such discipline based solely on the race, sex, or disability status of such student.

3. No public school shall permit bullying or hazing to occur on school property or during school-sponsored events. For purposes of this paragraph the mere failure to use a student's preferred pronoun when referring to the student if the preferred pronoun is not consistent with the student's biological sex shall not constitute bullying or hazing.

4. Any public school system may determine its own disciplinary policy related to use of reasonable corporal punishment, provided any policy adopting corporal punishment as a means of enforcing discipline shall be limited to reasonable force that could be exercised by a parent that is witnessed by at least two (2) adults and the parents or guardians of any student disciplined by this method is notified in writing within five (5) days of the occurence of such punishment.


TITLE V: SCHOOL LIBRARIES AND TEXTBOOKS


1. Before adding new material to any school library, each public school shall develop and distribute to the parent of each student who attends such school, including through any electronic available means such as email or a parental portal, a complete list of proposed materials, including books, periodicals, and any other instructional and supplemental material that may be in circulation and available to children. Such list shall include descriptions of the material and shall indicate the material for which the sale, rental, or lending to a minor is unlawful or restricted pursuant to law.

2. The parents of all students who attend a public school shall comprise the Parental Review and Approval Committee (the Committee) for such school. The Committee shall review and vote to approve or disapprove of each item on the list of proposed materials distributed pursuant to this act. Each such school shall establish an electronic survey and voting tool by which the Committee review and votes on such items. The survey and voting tool shall be widely publicized to members of the Committee and held open for a minimum of fourteen (14 ) days. A majority of the total members of the Committee voting in favor of each item shall constitute approval for its circulation in the school library. Any material that is not approved by a majority of the total members of the Committee voting shall neither be approved for circulation nor made available to students in the school library, and any material that is not reviewed and approved by the Committee shall be prohibited from being included in the school library.

3. Any public school system, prior to adopting any text book for classroom instruction shall develop and distribute to the Committee, including through any electronic available means such as email or a parental portal, a complete list of proposed text books including the name, edition, and publisher. Any member of the Committee shall be permitted upon request to review sample copies of the text book in person, provided no such book is photocopied or reproduced in violation of  federal copyright law. The Committee shall review and vote to approve or disapprove of each text book on the list of proposed text books pursuant to this act. No less than ninety (90) days after the list of proposed text books is publicly distributed, each such school system shall establish an electronic survey and voting tool by which the Committee review and votes on such items. The survey and voting tool shall be widely publicized to members of the Committee and held open for a minimum of fourteen (14 ) days. A majority of the total members of the Committee voting in favor of each item shall constitute approval for its adoption as a new text book. Any material that is not approved by a majority of the total members of the Committee voting shall not be approved for use as a text book.


TITLE VI: FUNDING


1. The Governor shall and is hereby authorized to award grants to schools in the Southern Region to support education in the following amounts and for the following purposes:

A. $12 Billion from the Education Trust Fund is hereby authorized to be awarded in grants annually to any public school or school system for boosting teacher pay. This may be conducted in the following forms:

i. Recruitment bonuses for the hiring of new teachers.

ii. Retention bonuses for the retention of teachers with a satisfactory or above satisfactory performance evaluation.

iii. Performance bonuses for the rewarding of teachers with an above satisfactory performance evaluation.

Grant award determinations for this purpose shall consider all relevant factors and shall prioritize schools determined to have a critical lack of funding, a critical lack of teachers resulting in a student to teacher ratio greater than 25: 1, merit pay policies, or other hardships that make enhanced teacher pay critically important to positive educational outcomes for students.

B. $5 Billion from the Education Trust Fund is hereby authorized to be awarded in grants each year to any public school or school system for professional training and development programs for classroom teachers. No such training or development programs shall include material prohibited by law including but not limited to CRT.

Grant award determinations for this purpose shall consider all relevant factors and shall prioritize schools determined to have a critical lack of funding, a critical lack of teachers resulting in a student to teacher ratio greater than 25: 1, a critical mass of teachers evaluated unsatisfactory exceeding 20% of all teachers in the school or district, a failure rate exceeding 25% of all students in any grade in the school or district or 25% of all students cumulatively in a school or district, a failure rate exceeding 25% on any standardized test in States where standardized tests are required, or other hardships that make enhanced teacher professional training critically important to positive educational outcomes for students.

C. $1 Billion from the Education Trust Fund is hereby authorized to be awarded in grants each year to any public school or school system for the purchase of teaching supplies and text books.

Grant award determinations for this purpose shall consider all relevant factors and shall prioritize schools determined to have a critical lack of funding, a critical lack of teachers resulting in a student to teacher ratio greater than 25: 1, a failure rate exceeding 25% of all students in any grade in the school or district or 25% of all students cumulatively in a school or district, a failure rate exceeding 25% on any standardized test in States where standardized tests are required, or other hardships that make the teaching supplies and text books critically important to positive educational outcomes for students.

D. $15 Billion from the Education Trust Fund is hereby authorized to be spent through fiscal year 2025 to be awarded in grants to any public school or school system for the rehabilitation or new construction of school buildings at which classroom instruction is to occur.

Grant award determinations for this purpose shall consider all relevant factors and shall prioritize schools determined to have a critical lack of funding, a school building constructed prior to 1960, a school building that because of its condition presents a health or safety risk to students and teachers, a school building of an inadequately small size that has resulted in shared classrooms or classrooms that exceed the maximum occupancy load under the building code, or other hardships that make school construction and rehabilitation critically important to positive educational outcomes for students.

E. $2 Billion from the Education Trust Fund is hereby authorized to be spent each year to be awarded in grants each year to any public school system that operates a student voucher program that permits portable per-pupil education funding to be directed to cover education costs or tuition to a school the student chooses to attend.

Grant award determinations for this purpose shall consider all relevant factors and shall prioritize school systems determined to have a need-based program to assist moderate and low-income students, a critical lack of teachers resulting in a student to teacher ratio greater than 25: 1, a critical mass of teachers evaluated unsatisfactory exceeding 20% of all teachers in the school or district, a failure rate exceeding 25% of all students in any grade in the school or district or 25% of all students cumulatively in a school or district, a failure rate exceeding 25% on any standardized test in States where standardized tests are required, or other hardships that make school choice critically important to positive educational outcomes for students. In order to be eligible for a grant awarded for this purpose must allow participation by private schools.

2. For purposes of this act, public school includes public charter schools.

3. The Governor shall use his best judgment to ensure that grants awarded pursuant to this act be fairly distributed amongst the States in amounts that best preserve the integrity of the ETF while accomplishing the goal of the Region in providing positive educational outcomes and academic acheivement for all students in the Southern Region, including those most in need of help.


TITLE VII: ENACTMENT


1. This act shall take effect August 31, 2022.

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« Reply #2 on: June 14, 2022, 08:37:03 AM »

This our big education reform bill ive been slowly working on for months.

1-1 eliminates tenure are requires regular performance evaluations for teachers

1-2 requires teachers to share students grades with their parents upon request.

1-3 prohibits consensual sex between teachers and adult students at publuc school.

2-1 clarifies rules for locker searches.

2-2 protects homeless students

2-3 seeks to boost low income student benefits

2-4 is Danica Roems student lunch debt protection bill.

2-5 protects pregnant students.

3-1 - 7 is minimum school curriculumn including requirements for regular or advanced diplomas and substitute programs like sports counting as PE, computer programming counting as a foreign language and 4H or ROTC counting as career class. It also allows dual enrollment and does not mandate standardized tests.

4-1 requires schools to notify parents of student discipline issues.

4-2 prohibits racist or sexist discipline.

4-3 prohibits bullying.

4-4 sets the rules to prevent abuse of corporal punishment in school.

5 creates a parent review panel for all new text books and school library books.

6-1 is the spending part.

A boosts teacher pay

B funds teacher professional development

C funds school supplies

D funds new school construction and old school repairs

E funds voucher programs

6-2 clarifies that charter schools are eligible


This represents a 25% increase in total education funding in the South.



*The text of this bill does NOT violate the TOS of this website*
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« Reply #3 on: June 24, 2022, 11:31:25 PM »

If there are no more comments, I move we proceed to a vote. 24 hours for objections.
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« Reply #4 on: June 25, 2022, 11:29:54 PM »

No objection.
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« Reply #5 on: June 26, 2022, 09:52:32 PM »

A final vote on this bill is now open for 72 hours, or until 24 hours after this has enough votes to pass or fail, or until everybody votes, whichever occurs soonest.
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« Reply #6 on: June 26, 2022, 10:00:29 PM »

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« Reply #7 on: June 26, 2022, 10:08:29 PM »

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« Reply #8 on: June 26, 2022, 10:27:02 PM »

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« Reply #9 on: June 26, 2022, 10:30:23 PM »

This has enough votes to pass. 24 hours to vote/change your vote, or until everyone has voted, whichever happens soonest
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« Reply #10 on: June 26, 2022, 10:44:28 PM »

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« Reply #11 on: June 28, 2022, 12:05:21 AM »

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« Reply #12 on: June 28, 2022, 08:23:01 PM »

The bill now passes and awaits gubernatorial action.

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EDJUMICATION ENHANCEMENT ACT


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TITLE I: RULES FOR TEACHERS


1. No public school teacher or substitute teacher, teaching aid, faculty, or staff in the Southern Region shall be considered to have a property interest in their position. Every three (3) years a public school teacher in the South shall be subject to a performance evaluation to determine his or her effectiveness at classroom instruction and student discipline. Such evaluation shall determine if the teacher's performance has been satisfactory, unsatisfactory, or above satisfactory, as determined by each State. For teachers determined to be unsatisfactory the evaluation shall include recommendations for how the teacher might improve, including but not limited to additional professional training, classroom monitoring, or reassignment. Any teacher determined to be unsatisfactory shall be subject to an additional performance evaluation after two (2) years. If such additional evaluation again finds unsatisfactory performance by the teacher the evaluation may recommend additional opportunities for improvement or it may recommend the termination of the teacher. Nothing in this paragraph shall prohibit the termination of a teacher for cause, including but not limited to disciplinary action, elimination of the teaching position, or other lawful reason unrelated to the performance evaluation. Any public school system in the Southern Region may implement or adopt a policy of awarding merit pay increases to teachers receiving an evaluation of above satisfactory.

2. No public school teacher or substitute teacher, teaching aid, faculty, or staff, shall be permitted to withhold a student's assignment grades and scores used to calculate overall class grades or pass/fail determination from the student's parent or guardian upon a reasonable request for such information. For purposes of this paragraph, withholding means refusing to provide the requested information within one (1) week of the actual receipt of the request. Failure to provide the information, without just cause shall subject the teacher to disciplinary action including up to termination.

3. It shall be a misdemeanor punishable by no more than one (1) year imprisonment for any public school teacher or substitute teacher, teaching aid, faculty, staff, or adult volunteer to engage in consensual sexual acts with an adult student who is receiving instruction at the school at which such teacher, teaching aid, faculty, staff, or adult volunteer works. If the teacher, teaching aid, faculty, staff, or adult volunteer engages in non-consensual criminal sexual acts with an adult student including committing rape, sexual assault, or infected sexual battery against the adult student, such crime shall be punished according the same general guidelines for such crime. For purposes of this paragraph coercing or threatening student to engage in sexual acts, including but not limited to threats of unfair treatment, grading, or supervision at the school, promises of better treatment, grading, or supervision, denial of privileges at school, promises of additional privileges, or promises to withhold information from a parent, shall be deemed a non-consensual criminal sexual act.


TITLE II: RULES FOR STUDENTS


1. No public school student in the Southern Region shall be considered to have a property interest or a privacy interest in a locker assigned to him or her by a public school nor a privacy interest against sniff searches by drug dogs.

2. A student enrolled in a public school in the Southern Region who is experiencing displacement due to homelessness shall have the option to remain in his or her current or most recent school for the rest of the school year or enroll in the neighborhood school where he or she is staying.

3. Any student enrolled in a public school in the Southern Region who is eligible for the federal free or reduced lunch program shall be evaluated by school staff to determine if the student is also eligible for any other federal, Regional, or State welfare program or benefit. If the evaluation determines that such student is eligible for other programs or benefits, the school shall notify the parents or guardians of such student of such eligibility and shall offer to assist the parents or guardians in applying for such program or benefits. If after thirty (30) days of notification the parents or guardians have not applied for such program or benefit and have not expressly refused to allow their child to participate in the program or benefit, then the school shall, to the best of its abilities, apply for the program or benefit on the student's behalf.

4. No public school teacher or substitute teacher, teaching aid, faculty, staff, or adult volunteer shall require a student who cannot pay for a meal at school or who owes a school meal debt to throw away or discard a meal after it has been served to him, do chores or other work to pay for such meals, or wear a wristband or hand stamp to announcing the student's inability to pay. No such student shall be denied the opportunity to participate in any extracurricular school activity or denied the opportunity to graduate and recieve a diploma to which he or she is entitled, merely because the student cannot pay for a meal at school or owes a school meal debt. No school board or employee thereof shall file a lawsuit against a student because the student cannot pay for a meal at school or owes a school meal debt. Any communication relating to a school meal debt shall be directed to the student's parents or guardians. Such communication may be made by a letter addressed to the parents or guardians to be mailed or sent home with the student. Any school board may solicit and receive any donation or other funds for the purpose of eliminating or offsetting any school meal debt at any time and shall use any such funds solely for such purpose.

5. No public school student who becomes pregnant shall be suspended or denied access to the public school in which they are enrolled because of such pregnancy. Any such student shall be provided with take home class assignments for the duration of any pregnancy related absence the same as if the student were facing an excused healthcare related absence.


TITLE III: RULES FOR CURRICULMN


1. This act shall not change or modify any law or regulation governing existing public school curriculmn unless expressly modified by or in conflict with a new provision herein.

2. The minimum curriculum required to be offered for any public school system in the Southern Regions shall include the following:

A.  English: Grades 1-12

B. Math: Grades 1-12

C. Career Course or vocational training course: At least two (2) high school grades

D. Natural Sciences: Grades 1-12

E. Social Studies including State history, Southern History, Atlasian History, Civics, World History, Geography, and economics: Grades 1-12

F. Computer Science: At least one (1) high school grade

G. Foreign Language: At least four (4) middle or high school grades

H. Health: At least two (2) middle or high school grades

I. Physical Education: Grades 1-10

3. Any public school system in the Southern Regions shall be permitted to offer regular and advanced high school diplomas to students who satisfactorily pass the requisite number of classes for such diplomas.

A. A regular diploma shall be awarded upon the completion of 12th grade to any student who has satisfactorily passed at least three (3) high school classes each in English, math, the natural sciences, and social studies, as well as at least two (2) years each in foreign language, health, and physical education, as well as at least one (1) class of either computer science or a career course.

B. An advanced diploma shall be awarded upon the completion of 12th grade to any student who has satisfactorily passed at least four (4) high school classes each in English, math, the natural sciences, and social studies, as well as at least three (3) years in foreign language, as well as at least two (2) years each in health, and physical education, as well as at least one (1) class of either computer science or a career course.

C. For purposes of degree requirements, a class specifically in computer programming or Atlasian Sign Language (ASL) shall be considered a foreign language class.

D. For purposes of degree requirements, participation in an extracurricular school or intramural sports team for an entire season shall be considered a physical education class.

E. For purposes of degree requirements, participation in an approved extracurricular 4-H program, ROTC program, or work apprenticeship program shall be considered a career course.

F. Any class or course on modern world history or Atlasian history shall include at minimum: two (2) hours of instruction on the holocaust and related Nazi genocides, two (2) hours of instruction on the holomodor and other Marxist-inspired genocides, one (1) hour of instruction on the Armenian, Assyrian, and Greek Genocides of the Ottoman Empire, and two (2) hours of instruction on modern genocides including those in the former Yugoslavia, the Sudan, and the genocide of the unborn resulting from abortion.

G. Any class or course on State history, Regional history, or Atlasian history shall, when discussing the War Between the States include instruction on the multitude of causes of such war, including States' Rights, unfair tariffs, slavery, and regional factionalism.

H. No class or course on State history, Regional history, Atlasian history, world history, or civics shall include instruction or materials based on the 1619 project.

I. Any class or course on the natural sciences that includes instruction on the theory of evolution must include instruction that the theory of evolution is merely a theory. Any State may require such instruction to give comparably fair instruction in intelligent design and other alternative hypotheses provided such instruction similarly mentions that such hypotheses are merely a theory.

J. Any classroom instruction by school personnel or third parties on sexual education, sexual orientation, or gender identity may not occur in pre-school through grade 5 or in a manner that is not age-appropriate or developmentally appropriate for students. For purposes of this act, mere references to pronouns, marriage, families, childbirth, or adoption shall not be considered classroom instruction. For purposes of this act, personal pictures of a spouse, child, or family member of school personnel displayed by the teacher on a desk or in a work area shall not be considered classroom instruction. Nothing in this act authorizes or permits the disciplining or firing of school personnel due merely to such personnel's sexual orientation or gender identity.

4. Nothing in this act shall be interpreted as prohibiting a public school system from offering dual enrollment classes that simultaneously earn a student public school and college credit, or from offering additional classes or courses as part of its curriculmn, unless otherwise prohibited by law.

5. Nothing in this act shall be interpreted as requiring any public school system to adopt or conduct any standardized test to comply with this act. States may choose to adopt standardized testing provided such tests are not based on common core curriculumn or do not contain questions about curriculmn based on concepts of social emotional learning (SEL), culturally-responsive teaching, or other concepts prohibited by law, including but not limited to critical race theory and the 1619 project.

6. Any State that chooses to adopt standardized testing in social studies shall include the following question on any such test other than world history in each grade in which the test is offered: True or False: Kansas is a Southern State? with the correct answer being True.

7. Any State that chooses to adopt standardized testing in social studies shall include the following the question on any such test in Southern history or Atlasian history in each grade in which the test is offered: Which of the following reason led to the War Between the States? A. States' Rights B. Unfair tariffs C. Slavery D. All of the above. with the correct answer being D. All of the above.


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TITLE IV: STUDENT DISCIPLINE


1. Any public school that disciplines a student other than by a verbal warning shall notify the parents or guardians of such student in writing within five (5) days of the occurence of such punishment. The teacher or faculty member conducting any such discipline shall meet with the parents or guardians of such student upon their request to discuss the actions giving rise to the discipline.

2. No public school shall susepend or expel or decline to suspend or expel a student pursuant to a neutral written policy authorizing such discipline based solely on the race, sex, or disability status of such student.

3. No public school shall permit bullying or hazing to occur on school property or during school-sponsored events. For purposes of this paragraph the mere failure to use a student's preferred pronoun when referring to the student if the preferred pronoun is not consistent with the student's biological sex shall not constitute bullying or hazing.

4. Any public school system may determine its own disciplinary policy related to use of reasonable corporal punishment, provided any policy adopting corporal punishment as a means of enforcing discipline shall be limited to reasonable force that could be exercised by a parent that is witnessed by at least two (2) adults and the parents or guardians of any student disciplined by this method is notified in writing within five (5) days of the occurence of such punishment.


TITLE V: SCHOOL LIBRARIES AND TEXTBOOKS


1. Before adding new material to any school library, each public school shall develop and distribute to the parent of each student who attends such school, including through any electronic available means such as email or a parental portal, a complete list of proposed materials, including books, periodicals, and any other instructional and supplemental material that may be in circulation and available to children. Such list shall include descriptions of the material and shall indicate the material for which the sale, rental, or lending to a minor is unlawful or restricted pursuant to law.

2. The parents of all students who attend a public school shall comprise the Parental Review and Approval Committee (the Committee) for such school. The Committee shall review and vote to approve or disapprove of each item on the list of proposed materials distributed pursuant to this act. Each such school shall establish an electronic survey and voting tool by which the Committee review and votes on such items. The survey and voting tool shall be widely publicized to members of the Committee and held open for a minimum of fourteen (14 ) days. A majority of the total members of the Committee voting in favor of each item shall constitute approval for its circulation in the school library. Any material that is not approved by a majority of the total members of the Committee voting shall neither be approved for circulation nor made available to students in the school library, and any material that is not reviewed and approved by the Committee shall be prohibited from being included in the school library.

3. Any public school system, prior to adopting any text book for classroom instruction shall develop and distribute to the Committee, including through any electronic available means such as email or a parental portal, a complete list of proposed text books including the name, edition, and publisher. Any member of the Committee shall be permitted upon request to review sample copies of the text book in person, provided no such book is photocopied or reproduced in violation of  federal copyright law. The Committee shall review and vote to approve or disapprove of each text book on the list of proposed text books pursuant to this act. No less than ninety (90) days after the list of proposed text books is publicly distributed, each such school system shall establish an electronic survey and voting tool by which the Committee review and votes on such items. The survey and voting tool shall be widely publicized to members of the Committee and held open for a minimum of fourteen (14 ) days. A majority of the total members of the Committee voting in favor of each item shall constitute approval for its adoption as a new text book. Any material that is not approved by a majority of the total members of the Committee voting shall not be approved for use as a text book.


TITLE VI: FUNDING


1. The Governor shall and is hereby authorized to award grants to schools in the Southern Region to support education in the following amounts and for the following purposes:

A. $12 Billion from the Education Trust Fund is hereby authorized to be awarded in grants annually to any public school or school system for boosting teacher pay. This may be conducted in the following forms:

i. Recruitment bonuses for the hiring of new teachers.

ii. Retention bonuses for the retention of teachers with a satisfactory or above satisfactory performance evaluation.

iii. Performance bonuses for the rewarding of teachers with an above satisfactory performance evaluation.

Grant award determinations for this purpose shall consider all relevant factors and shall prioritize schools determined to have a critical lack of funding, a critical lack of teachers resulting in a student to teacher ratio greater than 25: 1, merit pay policies, or other hardships that make enhanced teacher pay critically important to positive educational outcomes for students.

B. $5 Billion from the Education Trust Fund is hereby authorized to be awarded in grants each year to any public school or school system for professional training and development programs for classroom teachers. No such training or development programs shall include material prohibited by law including but not limited to CRT.

Grant award determinations for this purpose shall consider all relevant factors and shall prioritize schools determined to have a critical lack of funding, a critical lack of teachers resulting in a student to teacher ratio greater than 25: 1, a critical mass of teachers evaluated unsatisfactory exceeding 20% of all teachers in the school or district, a failure rate exceeding 25% of all students in any grade in the school or district or 25% of all students cumulatively in a school or district, a failure rate exceeding 25% on any standardized test in States where standardized tests are required, or other hardships that make enhanced teacher professional training critically important to positive educational outcomes for students.

C. $1 Billion from the Education Trust Fund is hereby authorized to be awarded in grants each year to any public school or school system for the purchase of teaching supplies and text books.

Grant award determinations for this purpose shall consider all relevant factors and shall prioritize schools determined to have a critical lack of funding, a critical lack of teachers resulting in a student to teacher ratio greater than 25: 1, a failure rate exceeding 25% of all students in any grade in the school or district or 25% of all students cumulatively in a school or district, a failure rate exceeding 25% on any standardized test in States where standardized tests are required, or other hardships that make the teaching supplies and text books critically important to positive educational outcomes for students.

D. $15 Billion from the Education Trust Fund is hereby authorized to be spent through fiscal year 2025 to be awarded in grants to any public school or school system for the rehabilitation or new construction of school buildings at which classroom instruction is to occur.

Grant award determinations for this purpose shall consider all relevant factors and shall prioritize schools determined to have a critical lack of funding, a school building constructed prior to 1960, a school building that because of its condition presents a health or safety risk to students and teachers, a school building of an inadequately small size that has resulted in shared classrooms or classrooms that exceed the maximum occupancy load under the building code, or other hardships that make school construction and rehabilitation critically important to positive educational outcomes for students.

E. $2 Billion from the Education Trust Fund is hereby authorized to be spent each year to be awarded in grants each year to any public school system that operates a student voucher program that permits portable per-pupil education funding to be directed to cover education costs or tuition to a school the student chooses to attend.

Grant award determinations for this purpose shall consider all relevant factors and shall prioritize school systems determined to have a need-based program to assist moderate and low-income students, a critical lack of teachers resulting in a student to teacher ratio greater than 25: 1, a critical mass of teachers evaluated unsatisfactory exceeding 20% of all teachers in the school or district, a failure rate exceeding 25% of all students in any grade in the school or district or 25% of all students cumulatively in a school or district, a failure rate exceeding 25% on any standardized test in States where standardized tests are required, or other hardships that make school choice critically important to positive educational outcomes for students. In order to be eligible for a grant awarded for this purpose must allow participation by private schools.

2. For purposes of this act, public school includes public charter schools.

3. The Governor shall use his best judgment to ensure that grants awarded pursuant to this act be fairly distributed amongst the States in amounts that best preserve the integrity of the ETF while accomplishing the goal of the Region in providing positive educational outcomes and academic acheivement for all students in the Southern Region, including those most in need of help.


TITLE VII: ENACTMENT


1. This act shall take effect August 31, 2022.

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