Legislative Session number- 89

Bill Name: SF0811

2E Relating to E-12 education

ARTICLE 1 - GENERAL EDUCATION

Modifying
certain provisions relating to early childhood special education services
reciprocity agreements, pupil accounting, career and technical revenue
eligibility, extended support revenue use and program name change, operating
capital levy equalizing factors, calculation of transportation sparsity revenue,
building allocation of compensatory revenue, intermediate districts formations
for Carver, Scott, and Le Sueur counties, joint school board membership, bylaws,
status, and powers and duties, agreements, district contributions, disbursements
and contracts, non-postsecondary programs licensed direction, other school
districts membership and powers, intermediate district compensatory revenue,
Hendricks school district reciprocity agreement exemption, school district levy
adjustments, and independent school district #761, Owatanna, referendum revenue
authorization; making conforming changes; providing a summary of
appropriations

ARTICLE 2 - EDUCATION EXCELLENCE

Developing and expanding
concurrent enrollment courses and providing expansion grants; citing the
"Student Support Services Personnel Act"; modifying certain provisions relating
to teacher preparation program data, alternative teacher professional pay system
qualifying plans and requirements, and basic alternative teacher compensation
aid alternative compensation revenue formula development; providing research
based professional development for licensed principals and other school leaders;
providing grants for certain teacher-powered schools; expanding concurrent
enrollment participation; providing for full-service community schools;
integrating service-learning into Minnesota's education system and establishing
an evidence-based service-learning grant program; establishing an American
Indian education aid program and eliminating the equalization cap for Bureau of
Indian Education schools; clarifying teacher development and evaluation revenue
qualification; requiring a working group on concurrent enrollment courses;
requiring a statewide swimming resources examination and development report;
making conforming changes; providing a summary of appropriations

ARTICLE 3 -
STANDARDS AND ASSESSMENTS

Expanding physical education academic standards;
requiring ACT administration to nonpublic pupils, limitations; specifying
notification requirements for commissioner ordered suspension of assessments;
modifying school performance reports; requiring assessment recommendations
reporting; allowing for assessment results due to assessment system disruptions;
requiring reallocation of payment reductions, and requiring assessment system
contractor performance report; making conforming changes; providing a summary of
appropriations

ARTICLE 4 - CHARTER SCHOOLS

Allowing certain charter
schools with a certain percentage of enrolled students having a primary
disability of deaf or hard-of-hearing to also enroll prekindergarten students
with a disability; requiring charter schools enrolling prekindergarten deaf and
hard-of-hearing children to comply with interagency early childhood intervention
system requirements; making conforming changes; providing a summary of
appropriations

ARTICLE 5 - SPECIAL EDUCATION

Modifying certain charter
school special education provisions relating to special education revenue, aid,
special instruction for children with a disability, nonresident tuitions rate
and other costs, eligible charter school final aid payments acceleration, and
alternative attendance programs; making conforming changes; providing a summary
of appropriations

ARTICLE 6 - FACILITIES AND TECHNOLOGY

Modifying the
definition of eligible debt service revenue; eliminating health and safety
revenue programs, clarifying health and safety capital projects; establishing
long-term facilities maintenance revenue, requiring district plans, authorizing
bonds, levy, equalization revenue and aid, and allowed uses, specifying
restrictions, requiring a reserve account; reserving a certain amount from the
school endowment fund for school technology and telecommunications; requiring
the research of existing programs to determine best practices for schools and
districts implementing 1:1 device programs; providing for an orderly transition
in the FAIR School Crystal and FAIR School downtown; providing for an
information technology certification partnership; cancelling the previous
biennium appropriation for the IT certifications partnership; making conforming
changes; providing a summary of appropriations

ARTICLE 7 - NUTRITION AND
ACCOUNTING

Increasing the reimbursement for each fully paid breakfast and
requiring schools to make breakfast available without charge for students in
first grade; authorizing independent school district #91, Barnum, to transfer
money between certain community service accounts; specifying certain fund
transfer requests approval requirements; making conforming changes; providing a
summary of appropriations


ARTICLE 8 - LIBRARIES

Increasing certain total
basic system support aid distributed as base aid; decreasing certain total basic
system support aid distributed on the basis of adjusted net tax capacity per
capita; modifying and conforming application procedures and use of regional
library telecommunications aid; clarifying the awarding of funds; making
conforming changes; providing a summary of appropriations

ARTICLE 9 - EARLY
CHILDHOOD EDUCATION

Modifying certain school readiness program provisions
relating to program requirements, services for new or existing providers,
program fees, eligibility, waiting lists, and aid entitlement; requiring a study
and report of early childhood effectiveness on third grade literacy; making
conforming changes; providing a summary of appropriations

ARTICLE 10 -
PREVENTION

Expanding reporting requirements for early childhood developmental
screening program vision screenings; authorizing early education services for
certain students from adjoining states; increasing funding for community
education youth after-school enrichment revenue; establishing an after-school
community learning grant program; requiring a comprehensive vision examination
report; making conforming changes; providing a summary of appropriations


ARTICLE 11 - SELF-SUFFICIENCY AND LIFELONG LEARNING

Providing a summary of
appropriations for adult basic education aid and payment of a percentage of the
costs of certain GED tests

ARTICLE 12 - STATE AGENCIES

Modifying certain
provisions relating to travel abroad programs for Minnesota secondary school
students; allowing the department of education to receive fees from the
processing of teacher background checks; making conforming changes; providing a
summary of appropriations

ARTICLE 13 - FORECAST ADJUSTMENTS

Making
conforming changes to appropriations consistent with the February 2015 economic
forecast
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