E Providing for the funding of prekindergarten through grade 12 education programs and servicesARTICLE 1 - GENERAL EDUCATIONEliminating a certain provision allowing access by the department of children, families and learning to welfare data to produce accurate numbers of students receiving aid to families with dependent children or Minnesota family investment program (MFIP) benefits due to a change in the basis of the basic skills revenue formula; increasing the staff development revenue reservation requirement and modifying the allocation requirement; changing site decision making teams to site professional development teams; requiring the recognition of integration aid in the same year as the integration levy; adjusting the nonpublic pupil transportation aid formula; modifying the general education revenue formula for charter schools, including the referendum equalization aid allowance in the district of residence; increasing the early childhood family education (ECFE) and community education levy tax rates and modifying the extended day levy formula; setting the limited English proficiency programs revenue formula; changing certain references to compensatory revenue to basic skills revenue under certain graduation incentives and alternative programs provisions and providing for payment; modifying the integration revenue formula and expanding eligibility for the revenue; increasing the pupil unit weighting for students in kindergarten and the primary grades; requiring compensation revenue pupil units for charter schools and contracted alternative programs in the first year of operation to be computed using data for the current fiscal year; modifying the calculation of adjusted pupil units, expanding use of the units and of pupil units served to charter schools and defining adjusted and resident marginal cost pupil units; including equity revenue in and eliminating graduation standards implementation revenue from the general education revenue formula; modifying and increasing the basic revenue formula allowance; modifying the determination of basic skills revenue; providing for use of adjusted marginal cost pupil units in the basic, basic skills, training and experience, supplemental, total operating cost capital and transportation sparsity and transition allowance revenue formulas and in the transition revenue adjustment; providing for the calculation of sparsity revenue using pupil units served instead of resident pupil units; adjusting the supplemental and transition levy tax rates; permanently eliminating the supplemental revenue reduction for certain school districts; authorizing the use of total operating capital revenue to purchase library technology; clarifying the calculation of the transition allowance; providing equity revenue for certain school districts, providing for regional and district equity gaps and a district equity index and defining equity region for revenue computation purposes; specifying a learning and development revenue reservation requirement; reducing the general education tax rate and clarifying the calculation of the general education levy; requiring the reservation of all basic skills revenue and clarifying the building allocation formula; basing the calculation of the referendum revenue allowance, referendum revenue and the referendum equalization levy on resident marginal cost pupil units, increasing the referendum equalization revenue formula and adjusting the referendum equalization and district cooperation levy tax rates; providing for the allocation of general education revenue to building sites, specifying certain separate account and data reporting requirements; making permanent the retired employee health benefits levy and increasing the annual levy limit; increasing certain operating debt levy formulas; modifying certain aid and abatement adjustment and aid payment requirements; requiring the payment of general education aid to the serving district; basing the general education aid reduction and increase requirements for the payment of aid for alternative attendance programs on referendum equalization aid instead of general education revenue minus basic skills revenue and clarifying the calculation of tuition amounts; eliminating the reduction in general education aid for pupils attending charter schools; requiring statewide average revenue estimates to be based on adjusted marginal cost pupil units; delaying the repeal of certain education finance provisions and eliminating the repeal of learning year pupil units; clarifying certain revenue conversion, tax rate adjustment, equalizing factor and qualifying tax rate provisions; authorizing independent school district 272, Eden Prairie to levy to rent or lease administrative space; authorizing an operating debt levy in independent school district 417, Tracy; providing declining pupil unit aid for independent school districts 508, St. Peter, 592, Climax, 2171, Kittson Central, 2854, Ada-Borup, 2176, Warren-Alvarado-Oslo, 846, Breckenridge and 595, East Grand Forks and 2856, Stephen-Argyle Central; providing airport runway impact aid for independent school district 280, Richfield; requiring the department of children, families and learning to make appropriate weighting adjustments to fiscal year 1999 pupil units for fiscal year 2000 to reflect the impact of the new adjusted and marginal cost pupil units; specifying certain school district class size reduction, all day kindergarten or special education student to instructor ratio reduction revenue reservation requirements; setting the referendum allowance for independent school district 277, Westonka; appropriating money to the department for general and supplemental education, transportation safety, enrollment options transportation, district cooperation revenue, declining pupil unit and airport runway impact aids, for magnet school integration revenue, for the Emily charter school to correct the impact of over reporting of compensatory revenue, for the Success Academy charter school for compensatory pupils not counted in the 1998-99 school year calculation, for transition compensatory grants to independent school districts 11, Anoka-Hennepin, 281, Robbinsdale, 625, St. Paul, 709, Duluth, 279, Osseo and 535, Rochester, for marginal cost transition grants to several different school districts and for a grant to the range association of municipalities and schools to provide a coordinated response to declining enrollment; repealing certain provisions relating to student transportation safety revenue and aid, graduation standards implementation, historic building and assurance of mastery revenues, limited English proficiency (LEP) programs aid and AFDC pupil units, certain obsolete appropriation transfers and a certain prior appropriation to expand the wide area transportation pilot project ARTICLE 2 - SPECIAL PROGRAMS Specifying certain requirements of individual education plan teams upon suspension from school of students with disabilities and providing for review of the relationship between the disability and the behavior subject to disciplinary action for IEP appropriateness determination purposes; expanding the authority to teach English as a second language (ESL) in adult basic education programs; requiring and providing for the board of teaching to adopt a separate licensure rule for teachers of oral aural deaf education programs; modifying the area learning center reserved revenue requirement for member school districts and expanding services access and program focus requirements of the centers to English language and literacy programs; removing first grade preparedness pilot sites from the program upon fall of the percentage of children eligible for free or reduced price lunches below the state average and delaying the expiration date for the program; modifying the state total school to work program disabled revenue and increasing the state total limited English proficiency (LEP) program revenue; clarifying the calculation of additional revenue for homeless students; providing for care and treatment instructional aid for nondisabled children placed in care and treatment facilities; lowering the maximum age for the provision of services to children with disabilities and eliminating certain references to federal law; eliminating the authority of the department of children, families and learning to pay lay advocate costs and modifying a certain provision regulating the appointment of impartial hearing officers for special education dispute resolution purposes; subjecting government agencies providing services to students with disabilities under interagency agreements to the same dispute resolution systems as local school districts; placing the responsibility for transportation to and from care and treatment facilities for pupils with a disability on the resident district and restricting the transportation to regular district operating hours; requiring the commissioner of children, families and learning to develop a special education reciprocity agreement form specifying procedures for calculating special education tuition charges for students served in other states and for out of state students served in Minnesota; granting access to the due process hearing and complaint system to parties serving nonpublic school students on a shared time basis; delaying the requirement for school districts to seek third party reimbursement for health related expenses; changing parent advisory committees to councils to increase parental involvement in district policy and decision making, requiring incorporation into the district special education system plan; eliminating certain duties of local interagency early intervention committees and the requirement for the departments of children, families and learning, health and human services to provide assistance to local agencies in developing cooperative service plans; reducing the time limit for development of transition plans for children no longer eligible for early intervention services; modifying certain provisions regulating the placement and transportation of children without disabilities, requiring commissioner approval of education plans for facilities licensure purposes and eliminating the requirement for commissioner development of an education screening tool for use in residential facilities; changing the name of the Faribault academies for the deaf and blind to the Minnesota state academies and the name of the board to the board of the Minnesota state academies, increasing board membership and clarifying the term limit, requiring the appointment of site councils, authorizing recommendations to the governor on board appointees from the site councils; requiring the commissioner of human services to reimburse school districts for the federal share of individual education plan health related services qualifying for medical assistance (MA) reimbursement and eliminating the responsibility of prepaid health plans for special education services; requiring the state to reimburse school districts for the actual cost of providing instruction for all children placed in licensed facilities for care and treatment, program approval requirement; including interpreter and transliterator fees in litigation and hearing costs for school district reimbursement purposes, changing the date for annual submission to the commissioner of unreimbursed costs lists and eliminating state aid for attorney fees; increasing the special education revenue program growth factor, eliminating the aid and levy percentage factors and adding the nonfederal share of certain medical assistance costs to the base revenue formula; changing state total special education revenue to aid and increasing the aid; defining average daily membership and program growth factor for special education excess cost revenue purposes, changing excess cost revenue to aid and providing for initial, state total and district special education excess cost aids; authorizing school districts to submit unreimbursed special education expenditures to the state for payment for disabled children placed in care and treatment facilities by court action in states without a reciprocity agreement; requiring the commissioner to implement a uniform billing system for education services provided to students placed outside the home; increasing the crime related costs levy formula and expanding authorized uses of the proceeds; requiring the commissioner in cooperation with the commissioner of human services to monitor the costs of health related special education services provided by public schools; resident district of homeless pupils to be the district of enrollment; exempting teachers of oral aural deaf education from demonstrating proficiency in American sign language (ASL); modifying the match requirement for homeless children education programs grants; providing for the distribution of certain prior first grade preparedness program grant appropriations; modifying the requirement for the state board of education to amend certain rules affecting special education instruction and services; requiring and providing for the commissioner of children, families and learning to establish a community intervention and prevention grant program for at risk children and families; requiring the commissioner to convene a temporary task force to make recommendations on a system to approve education programs serving children at care and treatment facilities including detention facilities and report to the legislature by a certain date, to recommend options on special education funding formulas to the legislature by a certain earlier date and to update certain special education rules; appropriating money to the department of children, families and learning for American Indian education and language and cultural programs, post-secondary and teacher preparation grants, tribal contract schools and early childhood programs at tribal schools, for magnet school grants, for integration programs for minority fellowship and teacher incentives, teachers of color and cultural exchange grants, for special education, children with a disability, travel for home based services, special education excess cost, special programs equalization, integration and care and treatment instructional aids, for interdistrict desegregation or integration transportation, community intervention and prevention and first grade preparedness program grants, for school to work programs for students with disabilities, for additional revenue and education programs matching grants for homeless students, for the center for victims of torture, for certain grants to independent school district 707, Nett Lake, for a special education revenue adjustment for independent school district 535, Rochester, for out of state tuition, for implementing the uniform billing and care and treatment facilities education programs approval systems, for certain litigation costs and for court placed special education revenue; specifying certain reference change instructions to the revisor of statutes; repealing the purpose and certain evaluation requirements under the first grade preparedness program, certain special education aid provisions, the options plus pilot program, Mexican origin education and in school behavior intervention grants, certain rule amendment requirements of the state board of education and certain suspension and expulsion rules ARTICLE 3 - LIFELONG LEARNINGModifying the secondary vocational aid formula; extending the availability of a certain prior appropriation to the department of children, families and learning for a grant to independent school district 330, Heron Lake-Okabena to establish the southwest star concept school; appropriating money to the department of children, families and learning for secondary vocational aid, for youth works programs, for education and employment transitions program grants, for the learn and earn graduation achievement program and for the southwest star concept school; repealing a certain provision requiring the state to pay secondary vocational education program aids on a current funding basis ARTICLE 4 - FACILITIES AND TECHNOLOGYChanging the debt service equalization program to the facilities equalization program, modifying and expanding eligible facilities revenue under the program, modifying the levy formula and the aid payment schedule, specifying a debt service priority and reducing the standing appropriations for the program; providing for the financing of health and safety projects for certain cooperative units; changing handicapped access and fire safety improvements levy authority to revenue; changing the alternative facilities bonding and levy program to the alternative facilities revenue program and expanding eligibility under the program; authorizing school districts to issue bonds to prepay special assessments; authorizing the receipt of revenue under the facilities equalization revenue program to finance construction projects downpayments (down payments) or to pay for new school building leases; increasing the limit on metropolitan magnet school grants; modifying the school district and regional library telecommunications access grant programs, modifying grant priority and eliminating certain minimum capacity standards and network service and management agreements from program requirements and requiring grant clusters to file e-rate applications for grant related expenditures on behalf of participants; reducing the interactive television revenue levy and increasing the tax rate; authorizing the commissioner of finance to enter into written agreements or contracts relating to the continuing disclosure of information needed to facilitate the ability of school districts to issue debt obligations according to federal securities laws, rules and regulations; modifying the maximum effort debt service levy formulas and school district eligibility for capital loans and increasing the loan amount and modifying the bond sale limits; clarifying the role of the Minnesota education telecommunications council and eliminating the repeal of the telecommunications access grant program; authorizing the use of a certain prior appropriation to the commissioner of children, families and learning for a grant to the east metropolitan integration magnet school for site development; authorizing independent school district 4, McGregor to levy for energy improvements and independent school district 704, Proctor to make health and safety improvements to an ice arena; granting eligibility for the alternative facilities revenue program to independent school districts 834, Stillwater, 621, Mounds View, 622, North St. Paul-Maplewood-Oakdale and 624, White Bear Lake; requiring the department of children, families and learning to recompute the tax rate under the maximum effort school aid law for independent school district 728, Elk River; authorizing the commissioner to reopen the application process for residential academies grants under certain conditions; appropriating money to the department for facilities equalization and interactive television (ITV) aids, for one time infrastructure grants to independent school districts 23, Frazee, 659, Northfield, 392, Le Center, 31, Bemidji and 542, Battle Lake, for a boiler facility grant to independent school district 286, Brooklyn Center, for disaster relief facilities grants to independent school districts 81, Comfrey and 508, St. Peter, for a planning grant to the Minnesota River valley education district, for grants to special school district 1, Minneapolis for the urban league street academy and to independent school districts 2862, Jackson county central for certain unanticipated facilities and consolidation costs, 738, Holdingford for a girls locker room and school theater, 2155, Wadena-Deer Creek for a technology pilot project, 911, Cambridge-Isanti for the year round optional school facility and 411, Ballaton, 402, Ivanhoe, 404, Lake Benton, 418, Russell, 584, Ruthton and 409, Tyler for a cooperative secondary facility and for telecommunication access grants; repealing the cooperative secondary facilities and school building accessibility capital improvement grant acts, health and safety levy and aid provisions, a certain alternative facilities appropriation, the building construction down payment program, cooperation and combination capital facilities grants, handicapped access and fire safety improvements levy provisions and certain obsolete facilities rules; specifying certain codification and headnote change instructions to the revisor of statutes ARTICLE 5 - EDUCATION EXCELLENCEAuthorizing the agriculture education leadership council to provide grants for elementary agriculture education programs; providing for building lease aid for area learning centers and contracted alternative schools; authorizing education districts to sponsor charter schools; specifying a time limit for school board votes on charter school sponsorship applications and eliminating the requirement for a certain number of board members to vote for sponsorship to appeal a negative decision; authorizing the state board of education to waive the requirement for licensed teachers to be a majority of the members of the board of directors; reducing the teacher signature percentage requirement for petitions to convert existing schools to charter schools; imposing a time limit for completion of charter school contracts; authorizing charter school teachers to perform administrative, supervisory or instructional leadership duties without holding a valid administrators license; increasing building lease aid and modifying the aid payment schedule for charter schools, providing for additional compensatory revenue under certain growth conditions; providing a property tax exemption for leased charter school property; modifying and expanding the school enrichment partnership program; eliminating the authority of the commissioner of children, families and learning to charge for software development and clarifying the role of the department in approving software systems used by school districts and charter schools; expanding Minnesota learning academy training opportunities to school media and information technology professionals; establishing the brain power birth to classroom system alignment pilot; establishing a stability demonstration project in independent school district 625, St. Paul involving high mobility schools; requiring and providing for the commissioner to administer grants to school sites offering basic skills intervention programs outside the regular school day; continuing the class size study in independent school district 12, Centennial; requiring the education organizations participating in the development of a report on costs of health insurance for kindergarten through grade 12 educators to report to the legislature by a certain date; appropriating money to the department of children, families and learning for statewide testing and implementation of the graduation standards, for charter school building lease and integration aid, compensatory growth costs, start up grants and leased property, for the St. Paul community based school program, for graduation rule resource and talented student programs grants, for the clearinghouse of best educational practices, for a grant to independent school district 623, Roseville for the student council national convention, for area learning center building lease aid, for the brain power program, for the stability demonstration project in independent school district 625, St. Paul, for basic skills intervention programs, for the class size study in independent school district 12, Centennial and for homework hotline provider grants ARTICLE 6 - OTHER PROGRAMSRequiring the reporting of student birth dates in lieu of ages to school district superintendents by home school instructors; providing an alternative procedure to school board adoption of proposed plats for consolidation purposes; providing for school district integrated pest management plans and pesticide application notices; providing revenue for breakfast in public elementary schools; modifying the authority of school districts to spread out abatement levies; extending the levy authority of the Lac qui Parle joint powers district to independent school district 2853, Lac qui Parle valley; appropriating money to the department of children, families and learning for abatement, consolidation transition, nonpublic pupil education and transportation, school lunch and summer food service replacement aids, for fast break to learning revenue, for HIV education training sites, for public transportation school grants, for the school breakfast program, for magnet school grants to independent school districts 347, Willmar and 696, Ely and for an urban agricultural high school, for a grant to independent school district 690, Warroad to operate the Angle Inlet school and for integrated pest management training and manual development; repealing the school breakfast revolving fund and cash incentive ARTICLE 7 - EDUCATION POLICYAuthorizing school districts to begin the school year before September 1st to accommodate certain large construction or remodeling projects; eliminating certain references to the abolished state board of education, transferring certain duties to the commissioner of children, families and learning; delaying the measuring of student achievement levels to the 2000-2001 school year and specifying certain requirements of the recommended model; providing for the participation of law enforcement agencies, county attorney offices and social service agencies in school boards development of school discipline policies; requiring the commissioner to maintain and make available to school boards a model crisis management policy and school boards to adopt district crisis management policies to address potential violent crisis situations in the district by certain dates; requiring the board of teaching at the request of a teacher trainee seeking licensure or a licensed graduate of a teacher preparation program to hold a hearing to resolve matters affecting the components of teacher preparation programs; extending the deadline for the board to adopt rules requiring successful completion of an examination of general pedagogical knowledge and examinations of licensure specific teaching skills for teacher licensing purposes; requiring the board to adopt rules to require public school teachers renewing licensure to obtain further preparation in using positive behavior interventions and in accommodating, modifying and adapting curricula, materials and strategies to meet graduation rule requirements and to adopt rules for licensing teachers providing health related services for disabled children consistent with licensure requirements of the commissioner of health and the health related licensing boards; authorizing the board to allow persons enrolled in teacher programs and successfully completing student teaching to be employed as short call substitute teachers; requiring college and university teacher preparation programs to include certain strategies for teaching reading; authorizing the commissioner with the advice of an advisory task force of supervisory personnel to address complaints and other licensure issues relating to supervisory personnel; authorizing the board to set fees for supervisory personnel licenses; extending the deadline for school district notice to teachers of termination; replacing site decision making teams with site professional development teams and modifying certain staff development plan goals; establishing the Minnesota new teacher project in the department of children, families and learning to retain new teachers and to provide support for returning teachers; authorizing cooperative units to apply for competitive grants; authorizing school boards to contract with public or private entities to provide instructional and noninstructional services consistent with district collective bargaining agreements; restricting the application of the provision limiting school district participation in financial support agreements; modifying the procedural requirements for initial or continuing employment by school districts of school board members, requiring majority approval of the board; requiring school boards to annually calculate the general education, basic skills and referendum revenue generated by pupils in attendance at each site and inform each site of the estimate and report the information to the department; requiring school bus safety training programs in districts using buses equipped with seat belts to provide appropriate training on the use of the belts; providing for termination of participation in the enrollment options (open enrollment) program by certain truant students; eliminating the desegregation plan and summer programs requirements for the implementation of cultural exchange programs; requiring the commissioner to survey school districts and biennially report to the legislature on the status of the teacher shortage; modifying the term of governing board members of the state high school league and prohibiting the payment of per diem to full time state, school district or local government unit employee board members, subjecting the league to school district goods and services purchasing regulations, prohibiting interscholastic conferences from adopting policies limiting school board power to enter into cooperative sponsorship agreements, eliminating a certain dues and events revenue examination scope agreement requirement and granting the commissioner the authority to examine league activities or issues; granting intermediate school districts certain bond issuance authority; establishing a maximum length for certain types of school buses and requiring type III vans or buses converted to a smaller seating capacity to have been originally manufactured to comply with passenger safety standards; making the provision requiring approaching vehicles to stop for school buses applicable to persons in highway work zones; modifying the authority of the commissioner of public safety to cancel school bus driver license endorsements and expanding the authority of the commissioner to waive endorsement permanent cancellations for conviction of certain violations; authorizing school districts to pay employees according to applicable contracts, collective bargaining agreements or personnel policies; requiring the filing of a surety bond to contest elections approving the issuance of bonds by school districts; extending and modifying certain provisions of the grant program to promote professional teaching standards, requiring and providing for regional coordinators; establishing a program to provide for alternative pathways for teacher preparation; requiring the Minnesota state colleges and universities and the university of Minnesota to set aside a portion of higher education teacher education resources for teacher preparation programs committed to meeting the projected teacher shortages; requiring the board of teaching to communicate with school districts on procedures for expediting the hiring of substitute teachers; requiring the department of children, families and learning to determine methods of meeting district needs for licensed school counselors; requiring the revisor of statutes to recodify state high school league eligibility rules; requiring the commissioner of children, families and learning to establish a grant program for school districts to evaluate alternative calendar projects; requiring the commissioner of administration to develop and make available a model policy reflecting state and federal regulations relating to access to and dissemination of student records and to make clarification recommendations to the legislature by a certain date; authorizing independent school districts 253, Goodhue, 912, Milaca and 518, Worthington to begin the 1998-1999 or 1999-2000 school year before September 1st; authorizing certain permanent fund transfers in independent school districts 624, White Bear Lake, 882, Monticello, 495, Grand Meadow, 656, Faribault and 277, Westonka; appropriating money to the department for the urban teacher and alternative pathways teacher preparation, collaborative urban educator, school administrators recruitment and partners for quality school improvement pilot training programs, for the Minnesota new teacher and alternative calendar evaluation projects, for professional teaching standards promotion grants, for reimbursement to independent school district 116, Pillager for certain legal expenses and for implementation of a metropolitan area teacher licensure program to increase the number of metropolitan area teachers of students with emotional and behavioral disorders; repealing the additional three days of student instruction requirement and certain provisions relating to the state board of education ARTICLE 8 - LIBRARIESChanging the joint library pilot project at Nashwauk-Keewatin high school to an ongoing project, providing for a joint powers agreement; expanding eligibility for site based technology learning grants to certain additional libraries; expanding the database access program for public libraries and school media centers to state agency and public or private college or university libraries, modifying eligibility and eliminating the availability of graduation rule resources grants for the program; appropriating money to the department of children, families and learning for basic library system support grants, for multicounty multitype library systems, for regional library telecommunications aid, for the library for the blind and for the database access program ARTICLE 9 - STATE AGENCIESAuthoriziing the Minnesota state academies for the deaf and blind and the Lola and Rudy Perpich Minnesota center for arts education to start the school year before September 1st; specifying certain child maltreatment reports investigation requirements of the commissioner of children, families and learning; specifying certain reference change instructions to the revisor of statutes; transferring the powers and duties of the department of children, families and learning relating to drug policy and violence prevention to the department of public safety; appropriating money to the department of children, families and learning for the teaching and learning, lifework development, management and support services and office of community services programs, to the center for arts education and to the Minnesota state academies; specifying certain renumbering and cross reference correction instructions to the revisor of statutes; repealing the transfer of powers and duties relating to drug policy and violence prevention from the department of public safety to the department of children, families and learning ARTICLE 10 - EDUCATION CODE; COMPULSORY ATTENDANCEDefining charter school and public school under the education code; clarifying parental responsibility for assuring the enrollment of children in school; modifying the authority of school districts to require summer school attendance ARTICLE 11 - CURRICULUM AND ASSESSMENTRepealing certain instruction and curriculum requirements including the advisory committee and building teams, the requirement for parental curriculum review and the endowed chair programARTICLE 12 - STUDENT RIGHTS, RESPONSIBILITIES AND BEHAVIOREliminating certain form requirements for reporting school zone dangerous weapons incidents and reducing the reporting frequency requirement; modifying federal flag display requirements; clarifying certain immunization requirements, eliminating certain requirements suspension authority of the commissioner of health and modifying the definition of person enrolled in any elementary or secondary school relating to children with disabilities; eliminating certain mandates relating to school district programs to prevent and reduce the risk of acquired immune deficiency syndrome and certain requirements relating to chemical abuse preassessment and school and community advisory teams; clarifying the requirement for students to wear industrial quality eye protective devices; clarifying the provision regulating school safety patrols; eliminating the requirement for the commissioner of children, families and learning to encourage and assist school districts to cooperatively establish alternative educational services for dismissed pupils and certain hazing policy mandates; repealing certain provisions requiring copies of harassment and violence policies to be submitted to the commissioner and providing for additional funding sources for AIDS programsARTICLE 13 - TEACHERS AND OTHER EDUCATORSEliminating certain mandates relating to board of teaching register of persons licensed; eliminating athletic coaches from the definition of supervisory personnel; eliminating certain restrictions on the hiring of teachers; eliminating certain mandates relating to negotiated unrequested leave plans; eliminating the requirement for teachers to pay for requested records reproductions; requiring the negotiation of certain issues in teacher contracts; modifying the hearing requirement for the termination of coaching duties; eliminating the requirement for district reports of staff development results, the annual cap on the employment of teacher residents and a certain requirement for the board of teaching to consult with the teacher mentoring task force in approving mentorship program applications; transferring the responsibility for the interstate agreement on qualifications of educational personnel from the commissioner of children, families and learning to the executive director of the board of teaching; specifying certain renumbering instructions to the revisor of statutes; repealing certain provisions relating to teacher licensure and preparation programs, assessment professionals, teacher supervisory control of schools, contracts, sabbatical leave, recordkeeping and reporting requirements, staff exchanges, the educational effectiveness program, teacher centers and the administrators academy ARTICLE 14 - SCHOOL DISTRICTS; FORMS FOR ORGANIZINGRepealing certain requirements for area learning center programs to be available year round and to serve as a resource for other districts and the purpose of education districts ARTICLE 15 - SCHOOL DISTRICT POWERS AND DUTIES Clarifying the general authority of school boards; eliminating the requirement for school boards to provide free textbooks to district pupils; simplifying certain provisions regulating school site decision making teams, requiring notice to parents relating to involvement and eliminating certain agreement content requirements and options, certain responsibilities of the commissioner of children, families and learning relating to the agreements, the authority of school boards to enter into certain agreements and certain responsibilities of school superintendents; expanding the authority of school boards to charge certain fees; eliminating certain provisions regulating the use of textbooks and instructional materials by nonpublic school pupils and school fire inspections; requiring senate confirmation of members of the council on nonpublic education; eliminating the authority of school boards to designate school bus driver day, certain student school bus safety training competency demonstration requirements and the requirement to provide kindergarten pupils with safety training before the first day of school; making optional the transportation safety reserved revenue requirement; repealing certain school board powers, a certain provision providing for imprest cash funds, certain duties of school principals, certain recordkeeping or reporting penalties, certain provisions regulating curricular activities and providing for the use of school buildings, for agricultural education and for advertising on school buses, certain student transportation provisions and the requirement for school boards to visit schools ARTICLE 16 - EDUCATION PROGRAMS Modifying and clarifying the kindergarten instruction requirement; modifying certain enrollment options (open enrollment) program application procedures and certain requirements under the post-secondary enrollment options (PSEO) program; changing the purposes of charter schools to expected outcomes and modifying certain information dissemination requirements; clarifying certain provisions relating to the school breakfast and milk programs; changing mandatory components of the family connections program to expectations and requiring certain teacher negotiations; requiring commissioner of children, families and learning approval of plans and applications for family connections aid; eliminating certain guidelines for the Minnesota school to work student organization foundation relating to vocational learning experiences; changing the purposes of the Minnesota youth works act to expected outcomes, eliminating certain duties of the governor's workforce development council relating to grants, modifying certain grant application procedures and eliminating certain application content requirements and certain responsibilities of grantees; modifying certain requirements under the comprehensive education and employment transitions system and the comprehensive youth apprenticeship program; requiring school districts to make the final decision on the location of limited English proficiency services for nonpublic pupils; eliminating certain program guidelines for American Indian language and culture education programs; eliminating the office of desegregation integration and transferring responsibilities to the commissioner; eliminating certain program guidelines for the Minnesota academic excellence foundation; specifying certain renumbering instructions to the revisor of statutes; repealing certain powers of school district boards, certain provisions under the enrollment options program, the purpose of the first grade preparedness program, certain provisions under the post-secondary enrollment options act, the charter school length of school year requirement, the purpose of the school breakfast program, the flexible learning year program, certain provisions under the youth works act, certain LEP aid provisions, a certain provision providing for parental involvement programs, the Minnesota local partnership act and certain purposes and policies ARTICLE 17 - EDUCATION AND TECHNOLOGY Eliminating the term computerized from certain educational information system requirements, the purposes of the statewide school district telecommunications network, the requirement for the education telecommunication council to notify nonqualified grant applicants and the authority of unsuccessful applicants to reapply for grants; repealing certain duties of the department relating to the data acquisition calendar and a certain provision providing for regional clearinghouses for improving technology ARTICLE 18 - EDUCATION FUNDING Excluding certain adult students from the pupil unit count; eliminating certain unnecessary language ARTICLE 19 - STATE ADMINISTRATION OF EDUCATION Eliminating the authority of the commissioner of children, families and learning to appoint deputy commissioners, to repeal existing rules and to exercise authority over evening schools and eliminating certain duties of the commissioner relating to the adoption of goals and preparation of outlines for local school districts and laws modifications and unification recommendations; modifying a certain provision requiring the reduction of aid for violations of law and eliminating certain directives from the legislature to school districts; repealing a certain audit reporting requirement of the commissioner ARTICLE 20 - PERPICH CENTER FOR ARTS EDUCATIONEliminating certain powers of the board of the Perpich center for arts education (mk, ja)