Directs school districts to establish school threat assessment teams and implement plans to intervene where a student exhibits behavior indicating an intent to harm themselves or others and to address underlying needs of the student.
Requires the principal of any high school to allow any local trade union, upon request, to enter the school for the purpose of trade union recruitment, including, but not limited to: making presentations; disseminating literature; and answering questions by students.
Directs the commissioner of education to establish a statewide school safety tip line to permit students and others to report information related to incidents of students causing harm to the physical or mental health of another student or school employee, or a threat of such harm.
Creates substance use prevention and recovery resource materials which include age-appropriate information on the risks of drug use, overdoses, and how to include resources from outside of the school district to improve instruction.
Requires school districts to provide information regarding water safety and swimming certification to certain parents or students upon enrollment; defines "water safety".
Requires the department of education to report information regarding counselors, social workers and psychologists in schools and to implement a plan to increase the school counselor, school social worker and school psychologist to student ratio to nationally accepted standards and provide funding for such.
Provides that state lottery and video lottery gaming individual prizes in excess of one million dollars when aggregated exceeds twenty-five percent of a district's adjusted gross income shall be excluded from such district's adjusted gross income for the year.
Establishes the For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology ("FIRST") robotics competition; creates a grant program to fund high school participation in the competition and to encourage study in the fields of science, technology, engineering and math.
Provides that in a city school district in a city having a population of one million or more inhabitants, a plan developed in collaboration with the collective bargaining units representing teachers and the principals beginning in September 2022 and signed off on by the chancellor and the presidents of each bargaining unit, to reduce class sizes beginning September 2023 and to be achieved by September 2028 for all classes; requires a report on or before November 15, 2023 and on or before November 15th of each year thereafter; further requires the city school district to submit a financial impact statement on November 15, 2025.
Requires that all special education students attending schools scheduled to be closed or to undergo a significant change be assigned to new schools prior to the implementation of the closing or change.
Relates to annual teacher and principal evaluations; provides that no school district shall be eligible for an apportionment of general support for public schools appropriated in excess of the amount apportioned such school district unless it has either adopted a plan for the annual professional performance review of its classroom teachers and building principals or has submitted documentation demonstrating that it has fully implemented the standards and procedures for conducting annual teacher and principal evaluations.