1.1                          A bill for an act 
  1.2             relating to education; establishing the Minnesota 
  1.3             academy of educators; appropriating money. 
  1.4   BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: 
  1.5      Section 1.  [MINNESOTA ACADEMY OF EDUCATORS.] 
  1.6      Subdivision 1.  [ESTABLISHMENT.] The Minnesota academy of 
  1.7   educators is established to train Minnesota teachers in 
  1.8   research-based methods to improve student achievement.  The 
  1.9   academy must: 
  1.10     (1) provide high quality, research-based training to 
  1.11  increase student achievement by improving the teaching skills of 
  1.12  new teachers and ineffective teachers; 
  1.13     (2) assist school administrators and school board members 
  1.14  in leading the system change needed to improve student learning; 
  1.15     (3) aid schools in developing community and parental 
  1.16  support for the changes necessary to improve student 
  1.17  achievement; and 
  1.18     (4) use expert teachers from the state's classrooms, 
  1.19  post-secondary institutions, and resources from the community 
  1.20  at-large. 
  1.21     Subd. 2.  [SCHOOL DISTRICTS.] The academy must work 
  1.22  directly with 50 school districts during the 1999-2000 school 
  1.23  year and add 50 more districts during the 2000-2001 school 
  1.24  year.  Each selected district must collaborate with a college or 
  2.1   university with a teacher preparation program approved by the 
  2.2   board of teaching.  Each selected district must mentor another 
  2.3   district not being directly served by the academy. 
  2.4      Sec. 2.  [APPROPRIATION.] 
  2.5      Subdivision 1.  [DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN, FAMILIES, AND 
  2.6   LEARNING.] The following sums are appropriated from the general 
  2.7   fund to the department of children, families, and learning in 
  2.8   the fiscal years indicated. 
  2.9      Subd. 2.  [MINNESOTA ACADEMY OF EDUCATORS.] For a grant to 
  2.10  the Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs for the Minnesota 
  2.11  academy of educators: 
  2.12       $.,...,...     .....     2000 
  2.13       $.,...,...     .....     2001