Bill Information

An Act amending the act of March 10, 1949 (P.L.30, No.14), known as the Public School Code of 1949, in preliminary provisions, further providing for background checks of prospective employees and conviction of employees of certain offenses; providing for collection of identifying information of students attending institutions of higher education, for moratorium on certain data collection systems and data sets and for certified safety committees; in school finances, providing for reopening of 2011-2012 budget; in grounds and buildings, providing for acquisition of buildings, sites for school buildings and playgrounds and disposing thereof; further providing for approval by department of plans of buildings and exceptions and for approval of lease agreements; in intermediate units, further providing for subsidies for services and for financial reports; in district and assistant superintendents, further providing for purpose and for eligibility; in professional employees, providing for professional and temporary professional employees of schools formerly operated by the Commonwealth; in certification of teachers, further providing for certificates qualifying persons to teach, for kinds of State certificates, for continuing professional development, for program of continuing professional education, for continuing professional education for school or system leaders and for certificates issued by other states; providing for postbaccalaureate certification; in pupils and attendance, further providing for admission of beginners, for cost of tuition and maintenance of certain exceptional children in approved institutions; in safe schools, further providing for reporting, for safe schools advocate in school districts of the first class, for standing and for enforcement; in interscholastic athletics accountability, further providing for council recommendations and standards; in opportunities for educational excellence, further providing for definitions, for responsibilities of school entities, for concurrent enrollment committees, for concurrent enrollment agreements and for enrollment in concurrent courses; in charter schools, further providing for school staff; in community colleges, further providing for financial program and reimbursement of payments; in transfers of credits between institutions of higher education, further providing for duties of public institutions of higher education; providing for participation by State-related institutions; in funding for public libraries, providing for State aid for 2011-2012; in reimbursements by Commonwealth and between school districts, further providing for definitions, for basic education funding for student achievement and for accountability to Commonwealth taxpayers; providing for basic education funding for 2010-2011 school year; and further providing for payments to intermediate units, for special education payments to school districts, for payments on account of homebound children, for payments on account of pupil transportation and for Pennsylvania Accountability Grants.