Providing for supplemental funding of early childhood and family, prekindergarten through grade 12 and higher education programs and services ARTICLE 1- FAMILY AND EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION Clarifying certain definitions for child care programs eligibility purposes, disqualifying families disqualified from the Minnesota family investment plan due to fraud from transition year child care, providing for allocation of funding increases for the basic sliding fee program and clarifying eligibility of MFIP families for MFIP child care assistance; modifying the learning readiness program plans submittal timelines of school districts for learning readiness aid eligibility purposes; adding the Lyndale and Folwell neighborhoods in the city of Minneapolis to the list of priority neighborhoods for after school enrichment grants; defining certain terms for adult basic education aid eligibility purposes; requiring approved adult basic education programs to develop memoranda of understanding with local workforce development centers in the service delivery area and requiring adult basic education aid to be spent for adult basic education purposes; expanding program criteria for commissioner of children, families and learning approval purposes; requiring the commissioner to require school districts to provide notice of intent to apply for ABE funds as a single district or as part of a consortium of districts; modifying a certain program funding limit; providing for cooperative English as a second language (ESL) and ABE programs; creating a performance tracking system to assess program effectiveness, providing for the collection of data and limiting use of the data collected including social security numbers; specifying certain ABE consortium requirements; authorizing and providing for commissioner grants in consultation with the ABE policy review task force to nonprofit organizations to provide services not offered by district programs or supplemental to statewide or district programs; providing for total adult basic education aid, basic population aid, program revenue and an aid guarantee; providing for the licensing of church or religious organization child care programs as nonresidential child care programs under the rules for special family day care homes; providing for the temporary use of unsupervised experienced aides at child care centers under certain conditions; specifying certain inservice training requirements for child care center teachers, assistant teachers and aides; modifying household eligibility for matching funds in the family assets for independence initiative; extending a certain provision providing for additional early childhood family education aid and modifying certain prior appropriations to the commissioner for ECFE, school age and MFIP child care, family collaboratives, community and adult basic education and graduation aids; requiring the board of teaching to convene a task force to develop a competency based license for adult basic education and English as a second language teachers and report to the legislature by a certain date; sunsetting eligibility for MFIP social services child care and limiting payments, requiring priority to be given to mental health and chemical dependency services and requiring a commissioner report to the legislature by a certain date on the use of MFIP social services child care; requiring the commissioner to provide technical assistance on ways to expedite and streamline the application process for minor parents participating in school based child care, to create an application process for grants to establish cooperative programs to teach English as a second language to adults and children, to establish a reimbursement grant program to fund intensive ESL programs for TANF (temporary assistance for needy families) eligible adults participating in the MFIP program, to request a waiver from the federal department of agriculture to allow group family day care facilities to participate in the federal child and adult care food program and to ensure licensed family child care providers an opportunity to participate in policy discussions impacting child care; establishing an adult basic education policy task force to make recommendations to the legislature on program and funding policies for ABE programs; appropriating money to the commissioner for ABE supplemental service grants and administration, for a grant to the city of St. Louis Park for the Meadowbrook collaborative housing project to enhance youth outreach services and to provide education and recreational programming for at risk youth and for emergency services and cooperative language instruction grants, for adults with disabilities pilot programs, for intensive ESL for eligible MFIP participants and for reimbursement grants to transitional housing programs; transferring money from the federal TANF fund to the commissioner for basic sliding fee and MFIP social service child care and for assistance to transition year families; repealing a certain existing provision providing for ABE aid ARTICLE 2 - KINDERGARTEN THROUGH GRADE 12: GENERAL EDUCATIONIncreasing the percentage of general education revenue required to be reserved by school districts for staff development; increasing the salary of teaching residents; expanding levy recognition to integration revenue; requiring general education revenue for charter schools in the first year of operation to be computed using the number of adjusted pupil units in the current fiscal year; eliminating the obsolete cap on state total limited English proficiency (LEP) programs revenue; modifying the required use of integration revenue; requiring school districts to annually submit to the department of children, families and learning for review and approval a budget detailing the costs of desegregation integration plans filed with the department, authorizing department development of certain criteria in consultation with the desegregation advisory board; specifying certain desegregation integration plan content requirements and requiring annual review by district boards; modifying the integration revenue formula for school districts other than the Duluth, St. Paul and Minneapolis school districts, subjecting certain excess amounts of revenue received by the latter three school districts to the budget approval process; clarifying the integration aid formula for pupils in alternative attendance programs; modifying the formula for interdistrict desegregation or integration transportation aid; modifying the calculation of adjusted marginal and resident pupil units; requiring the distribution of revenue reserved for class size reduction, all day kindergarten and special education student to instructor ratios reduction according to a plan adopted by the school board; clarifying and increasing the general education basic revenue formula allowance; authorizing the use of total operating capital revenue for library media centers; clarifying the calculation of the referendum offset adjustment, the regional and district equity gaps, revenue reserved for class size reduction and referendum revenue; increasing the crime related costs levy and authorizing the use of levy proceeds for the costs of providing security in school buildings and on school grounds; requiring the forward shifting of all interdistrict desegregation or integration transportation aid; increasing the maximum amount of bond allowed to be issued by special school district 1, Minneapolis without voter approval; delaying the effective dates of the Minnesota education finance act of 1992 and the related repealers; modifying certain prior appropriations to the commissioner of children, families and learning for general and supplemental education and enrollment options transportation aids and district cooperation revenue to reflect a certain forecast; clarifying the effective date for a certain prior referendum allowance reduction change; providing for training and experience replacement revenue for a certain fiscal year; providing for district recognition of the integration levy adjustment; providing airport runway impact pupil unit aid for independent school district 280, Richfield to compensate for the anticipated loss of pupil units; providing sparsity correction revenue for fiscal years and 2001 for certain qualifying school districts; authorizing independent school district 2711, Mesabi East to levy for severance and early retirement incentives for employees retiring early due to district combination; appropriating money to the commissioner for sparsity correction revenue and for training and experience replacement revenueARTICLE 3 - KINDERGARTEN THROUGH GRADE 12 EDUCATION: SPECIAL PROGRAMS Exempting persons employed by school districts before a certain date to provide American sign language English interpreting or transliterating services from certain accredited program completion requirements and providing for the issuance of provisional certificates by the commissioner of children, families and learning, requiring reimbursement to districts for certain services; increasing the responsibility of the department of children, families and learning to pay for pupils attending private area learning centers providing chemical treatment services; modifying certain Indian scholarship award requirements; eliminating the monetary limit on metropolitan magnet school grants and providing for start up and additional operating costs aid for the schools; increasing the membership of the desegregation integration advisory board; delaying the date for implementation of the coordinated service system for preschool children with disabilities; providing for contracts between privately owned and operated residential facilities and certain special education entities for appropriate special education programs and services; clarifying the legal residence of children without disabilities placed in residential or foster facilities for care and treatment upon termination of parental rights; increasing the special education base revenue program growth factor; eliminating the change in the special education base revenue formula for fiscal year 2001 and later, requiring the department to establish procedures through the uniform financial accounting and reporting system (UFARS) to identify and track revenues generated from third party billings as special education revenue at the school district level; modifying school district eligibility for excess and initial excess cost aids; modifying the method for assuring district compliance with state and federal laws prohibiting discrimination; requiring the commissioner of administration to periodically issue new requests for proposals for operating the educational program at the Minnesota correctional facility-Red Wing; modifying certain prior appropriations to the commissioner of children, families and learning for tribal contract schools, aid for children with disabilities, travel for home based services and special education excess cost and integration aids; setting the budget base for magnet school grants and interdistrict desegregation or integration transportation aid; providing for special education cross subsidy revenue for school districts; appropriating money to the department of children, families and learning for a revenue reimbursement to independent school district 482, Little Falls, for a grant to the Northland joint powers board for learning center start up costs, for magnet school start up costs aid, for special education cross subsidy revenue and for a grant to independent school district 707, Nett Lake to pay unemployment compensation obligations; repealing a certain obsolete rule relating to compliance with state and federal laws prohibiting discrimination ARTICLE 4 KINDERGARTEN THROUGH GRADE 12 EDUCATION: EMPLOYMENT AND TRANSITIONSAuthorizing the use of a certain percentage of youth works grant funds for administrative expenses; continuing school district career and technical (secondary vocational education) aid; changing adjusted secondary vocational disabled revenue to adjusted transition disabled revenue; expanding and making permanent the school bank pilot project; modifying certain prior appropriations to the commissioner of children, families and learning for secondary vocational aid and education and employment transitions program grants and providing for the continued availability of the appropriations; delaying the repeal of the secondary vocational aid program ARTICLE 5 KINDERGARTEN THROUGH GRADE 12 EDUCATION: FACILITIES AND TECHNOLOGYClarifying the start date of school district combinations or consolidations for aid purposes; clarifying a certain deposit option for proceeds of school building sales or exchanges for school districts with outstanding bonds; providing for school district disposal of surplus school computers and related equipment; modifying the standing debt service appropriation to reflect a certain forecast; qualifying intermediate school districts for health and safety revenue; specifying certain requirements for indoor air quality plans submitted to the commissioner of children, families and learning for review and comment relating to heating, ventilating and air conditioning (HVAC) systems and airflow monitoring and requiring new or updated facilities to meet the indoor air quality requirements; temporarily requiring school districts to submit outstanding ongoing or recurring telecommunications access costs associated with data lines and video links to the department of children, families and learning for reimbursement, specifying certain limits and requiring the exclusion of hardware or equipment costs, requiring the filing of e-rate applications, providing for commissioner calculation of the costs and for district and charter school revenue and for telecommunication access services for nonpublic schools, requiring the commissioner in cooperation with the commissioner of administration and the Minnesota education telecommunications council to develop reimbursement criteria, severability clause; increasing the total operating capital revenue formula and requiring districts to reserve a certain amount for telecommunication access costs; authorizing school district capital levies to lease or rent district owned buildings or sites to the district and authorizing the commissioner to allow school districts to exceed the levy limit under certain conditions; clarifying the districts authorized to enter into lease purchase agreements; increasing the time limit on the prohibition against the issuance of bonds for districts with outstanding capital loans; modifying certain prior appropriations to the commissioner for health and safety, debt service, interactive television (ITV), alternative facilities bonding and floods declining pupil unit aids and for a grant to independent school district 508, St. Peter for declining pupil unit aid due to a tornado to reflect a certain forecast; eliminating the repeal of the cooperative secondary facilities grant act and certain school district facilities bonding and levy programs; clarifying the pupil weights required to be used to calculate declining pupil unit aid for the St. Peter school district; providing a one time deferred maintenance aid for school districts; authorizing independent school district 2125, Triton to include unreimbursed costs for testing, evaluation, removal and replacement of building fixtures and equipment due to discovery of mold in a school building in the health and safety plan, limit; requiring the commissioner in cooperation with the commissioner of administration and the education telecommunications council to recommend to the legislature a permanent method for funding telecommunications access as part of the general education revenue formula, specifying certain consideration requirements; authorizing and providing for independent school districts 695, Chisholm, 316, Greenway-Coleraine and 381, Lake Superior to issue bonds for the betterment of school facilities, limits; appropriating money to the department of children, families and learning for telecommunication access revenue, for interest paid on flood loans by independent school districts 595, East Grand Forks and 2854, Ada-Borup and for the one time deferred maintenance aidARTICLE 6 KINDERGARTEN THROUGH GRADE 12 EDUCATION: EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE AND OTHER POLICYChanging the date for the annual report by the commissioner of children, families and learning to the legislature on the advanced placement (AP) and international baccalaureate (IB) programs; specifying the passing scores on state reading and math tests; authorizing the use of reasonable force by teachers and school employees in disciplining students, requiring inclusion of the authority in school discipline policies; providing for board of teaching issuance of licenses to applicants trained in other states; creating an exception to a certain restriction on the membership of school site decision making teams; regulating school district contracts for the use of computers or related equipment or service; clarifying the audit requirements for school districts; requiring maintenance of amounts set aside for certain severance pay in reserve rather than designated accounts, requiring calculation of the required amounts according to standards established by the department of children, families and learning; requiring determination of the necessity of special operating plans to be based on the unreserved general fund balance in lieu of the net negative unappropriated operating fund balance; eliminating the authority of school boards to designate school bus driver day; updating certain reference relating to pupil transportation and modifying or clarifying certain transportation safety comprehensive policy development and implementation requirements; authorizing school districts to refuse to open enroll students expelled from school for possessing a dangerous weapon or illegal drugs or selling controlled substances at school or for committing third degree assault; updating the first grade preparedness revenue formula for charter schools; modifying certain provisions governing charter schools; expanding charter school sponsorship authority to certain charitable organizations and clarifying the authority of private colleges to sponsor the schools; creating pupil preferences for admission to charter schools under certain conditions; authorizing the reduction of state aid to charter schools employing unlicensed or unapproved teachers; requiring sponsors to monitor and evaluate charter school fiscal and student performance, authorizing an annual school assessment for costs payment purposes; authorizing the commissioner to approve different eligible sponsors or to terminate existing sponsorial relationships under certain conditions; changing the charter school integration revenue program to a grant program, authorizing commissioner adoption of application guidelines; requiring schools and public libraries with Internet access to use available software filtering technology; expanding certain survey and reporting requirements of the commissioner relating to teacher preparation programs and early retirement patterns; authorizing and providing for passenger lap and shoulder belts on school buses; updating certain provisions relating to motorcycle license endorsement requirements and the issuance of driver instruction permits; requiring the motor vehicle registrar to collect an additional fee on drivers license school bus endorsement applications or renewals to pay for the processing of physical examination certificates; authorizing the commissioner of public safety to accept physical examinations for school bus drivers conducted by federally authorized medical examiners; requiring employers to keep current school bus driver assessments available for inspection by commissioner representatives and modifying certain evaluation requirements; authorizing peace officers to transport truant students from home to school or to a truancy service center; authorizing cities, counties or towns to spend money to support student academic or extracurricular activities sponsored by local school districts; increasing certain prior appropriations to the commissioner of children, families and learning for charter school building lease aid and start up grants; authorizing the commissioner to reopen the application process for residential academies grants under certain conditions relating to recipient failure to perform according to the terms and conditions of the award; establishing the Minnesota new teacher project in the department of children, families and learning to retain new teachers; establishing the task force on school governance and management to examine constitutional and statutory provisions governing responsibilities and authority of the respective components of the public education system and report to the governor and the legislature by a certain date; prohibiting school districts from starting school before Labor Day for the 2000-2001 school year, excepting independent school districts 238, Mabel-Canton and 801, Browns Valley; requiring the department of children, families and learning to work with charter school operators to create recommendations for appropriate criteria for charter school building lease aid and report to the legislature by a certain date; appropriating money to the department for grant awards for professional teaching standards certification ARTICLE 7 KINDERGARTEN THROUGH GRADE 12 EDUCATION: NUTRITION AND OTHER PROGRAMS; FUND TRANSFERS Janet B. Johnson Parents Right to Know Act of 2000 ; regulating the application of pesticides on school property; increasing the school lunch aid formula; modifying the basis for first priority for fast break to learning grants by the commissioner of children, families and learning; modifying certain prior appropriations to the commissioner for abatement, nonpublic pupil, consolidation transition, nonpublic pupil transportation and school lunch aids and the school breakfast program; requiring the department of children, families and learning to maintain a list of pesticides enabling school districts to identify the toxicity category of pesticide products; requiring the commissioner of agriculture to review the use of pesticide and integrated pest management techniques and practices relating to the use and storage of pesticides in and around state buildings and buildings and grounds used for kindergarten through grade 12 public education, specifying certain cooperation requirements and requiring a report to the legislature by a certain date; authorizing certain fund transfers in independent school districts 194, Lakeville, 771, Chokio-Alberta, 832, Mahtomedi, 2215, Norman county east, 15, St. Francis, 2170, Staples-Motley, 544, Fergus Falls, 593, Crookston, 2167, Lakeview, 547, Parkers Prairie, 495, Grand Meadow, 2609, Win-E-Mac and 787, Browerville; restoring levy authority to independent school district 2859, Glencoe-Silver Lake; extending certain agreements between the intermediate school districts and the Minnesota state colleges and universities board of trustees (MnScu) for the use of space; appropriating money to the department of children, families and learning for matching grants for education programs serving homeless children, for a cooperative secondary facilities grant under a joint powers agreement for independent school districts 411, Balaton, 402, Ivanhoe, 404, Lake Benton, 418, Russell, 584, Ruthton and 409, Tyler, for best practices graduation rule seminars including grants to Education Minnesota and for the Minnesota children's museum reading program, the Minnesota new teacher project and an arts via the Internet collaborative project between the Walker art center and the Minneapolis institute of arts, for magnet school facilities grants to independent school districts 347, Willmar and 696, Ely, for the director of the office of strategic and long range planning to enhance the use of geographic information systems for educational demographics and for grants to schools serving students with chemical dependencies (sober or sobriety high schools) and to organizations assisting young immigrants in becoming literate and acquiring vocational skills; repealing the expiration date for fast break to learning grants ARTICLE 8 KINDERGARTEN THROUGH GRADE 12 EDUCATION: LIBRARIESModifying or clarifying certain provisions relating to the Nashwauk-Keewatin high school and city joint library project; increasing a certain prior appropriation to the commissioner of children, families and learning for regional library telecommunications aid, authorizing use for video lines and specifying the budget base for the program; extending the availability of a certain prior appropriation to the commissioner for the library for the blind and physically handicapped ARTICLE 9 KINDERGARTEN THROUGH GRADE 12 EDUCATION: STATE AGENCIES Reducing a certain prior appropriation to the commissioner of children, families and learning to fund the Lola and Rudy Perpich Minnesota center for arts education base for asset preservation and facility repair; replacing a certain prior appropriation to the department of children, families and learning with a new appropriation aggregating the funding to a single line itemARTICLE 10 KINDERGARTEN THROUGH GRADE 12 EDUCATION: TECHNICAL, CONFORMING AND CLARIFYING AMENDMENTSMaking conforming amendments to certain statutory provisions relating to compulsory instruction residency, trespass on school property, student transportation, area learning centers designation, the school to work system, coordinated interagency services and school district obligations for children with disabilities, special education revenue and excess cost aid, the uniform billing system for the education costs of out of home placed students, the Minnesota education telecommunications council, learning and development revenue, the rulemaking authority of the commissioner of children, families and learning, appropriation transfers, high school student work hours restrictions and the high school league board; specifying certain renumbering and cross reference correction instructions to the revisor of statutes; repealing certain redundant and conflicting provisions ARTICLE 11 - HIGHER EDUCATIONAppropriating money to the board of trustees of the Minnesota state colleges and universities for unanticipated enrollment increases, for education and management services to farmers facing financial hardship in certain areas, for urban teacher preparation leading to licensure involving metropolitan state university, Inver Hills community college and the Minneapolis community and technical college and for the Cook county higher education project, to the board of regents of the university of Minnesota for child care in the newly renovated Kirby center at the Duluth campus and for the agricultural rapid response fund; requiring the MnSCU board of trustees to provide relief to campuses experiencing certain health care cost increases; providing for the use of unexpended funds in the higher education services office (HESO) child care grant program; modifying the match and distribution requirements in a certain prior appropriation to the board of regents for allocation to the department of landscape architecture to develop a long-range plan for the reclamation of taconite mining lands; requiring the intermediate school districts and the MnSCU board of trustees to contract with the management analysis division of the department of administration and report to the legislature on the educational space needs of Century community and technical college and intermediate school districts 916, Dakota county technical college, 917, Hennepin county technical college and 287, Hennepin and Wright counties, providing for the splitting of contract costs, specifying certain report content requirements and extending agreements between the districts and the board for the use of space; requiring the management analysis division to review board level administration and management of the Minnesota state colleges and universities and make certain recommendations to the board by a certain date; repealing certain nurses of color program rules (Ch. 489, 2000)