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SF 2532 Senate Long Description

Relating to education; modifying certain adult basic education programs provisions; authorizing school districts or adult basic education consortiums to deliver English as a second language, citizenship or other programming in collaboration with community based and nonprofit organizations and with correctional institutions, specifying certain requirements of the organizations or institutions and providing for reimbursement; requiring organizations delivering ABE services to follow certain criteria; establishing a temporary adult basic education policy review board to advise the commissioner of children, families and learning on program and funding policies for ABE programs, requiring the commissioner to appoint board members and specifying certain board duties; authorizing and providing for the commissioner in consultation with the board to make grants to nonprofit organizations to provide services not offered by district programs or supplemental to statewide or district programs, specifying certain limits; providing for ABE, base population, adult learner and adult basic education instruction aids, specifying certain programs records maintenance requirements and requiring certain annual audits by the commissioner and annual fiscal reports by the programs receiving aid; authorizing the proration of certain aids under certain insufficiency conditions; requiring the use of excess funds for innovative program grants, requiring the commissioner to establish eligibility criteria and application procedures for the grants; increasing a certain prior appropriation to the commissioner for adult basic education aid and requiring the commissioner to distribute money necessary to fully fund the ABE aid formula for the current fiscal year as one time supplemental aid; requiring the board of teaching to convene a task force to develop a competency based license for teachers of ABE and ESL classes as an alternative to current licensing requirements and report to the legislature by a certain date; appropriating money to the department of children, families and learning for ABE supplemental service grants, supplemental ABE aid and the ABE policy review board; repealing the current system of funding adult basic education (mk)