E Providing for supplemental funding of prekindergarten through grade 12, higher education and early childhood and family education programs and services ARTICLE 1 GENERAL EDUCATION Increasing the percentage of general education revenue required to be reserved by school districts for staff development; increasing the salary of teaching residents; clarifying the start date of school district combinations or consolidations for aid purposes; 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; 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 approval 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; increasing the general education basic revenue formula allowance; providing training and experience adjustment base and revenue formulas to limit the decrease in training and experience revenue; clarifying the calculation of equity and referendum revenue; providing for a secondary vocational revenue reserve and specifying required uses; requiring the forward shifting of all interdistrict desegregation or integration transportation aid; increasing the maximum amount of bonds 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 of 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; providing airport runway impact pupil unit aid for independent school district 280, Richfield to compensate for the anticipated loss of pupil units; providing for district recognition of the integration levy adjustment; requiring the department of children, families and learning to make appropriate weighting adjustments in the declining pupil unit aid formula for independent school district 508, St. Peter due to changes in marginal cost pupil units; providing sparsity correction revenue and marginal cost impact and metro equity aids for certain school districts; authorizing independent school district 2711, Mesabi East to annually levy a certain amount for severance and early retirement incentives; appropriating money to the department for marginal cost impact and metro equity aids and for sparsity correction revenue ARTICLE 2 SPECIAL PROGRAMSDelaying the date for implementation of the new training and licensing requirements for individuals employed by school districts to provide American sign language English interpreting or oral or cued speech transliterating services; increasing the school district general education revenue reservation requirement 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; 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 of children, families and learning 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; clarifying the calculation of special education revenue excess cost aid, excluding training and experience adjustment revenue; modifying school district eligibility for excess cost aid; modifying the calculation of the crime related costs levy, increasing the maximum levy amount and expanding authorized uses; modifying the method for assuring district compliance with state and federal laws prohibiting discrimination; 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 to reflect a certain forecast; 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; requiring the commissioner to contract with a qualified expert to determine and report the number and overall incidence rate of school children diagnosed and not diagnosed with attention deficit disorder (ADD) or attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) currently taking amphetamine prescription drugs, requiring a commissioner report with recommendations to the legislature by a certain date; submitting a resolution supporting the efforts of the governor toward federal legislation to fund a certain percentage of federally mandated free and appropriate special education services for students with disabilities; 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, for the prescription drugs study 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 3 EMPLOYMENT AND OTHER TRANSITIONS Authorizing the use of a certain percentage of youth works grant funds for administrative expenses; 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 education aid to reflect a certain forecast and providing for the continued availability of certain prior appropriations for education and employment transitions program grants ARTICLE 4 FACILITIES AND TECHNOLOGYClarifying a certain deposit option for proceeds of school building sales or exchanges for school districts with outstanding bonds; changing the debt service equalization program to the facilities equalization program, consolidating the alternative facilities, health and safety, handicapped access and fire safety, building construction and lease, building lease and cooperative building repair revenue programs into the program, modifying the facilities equalization revenue formula, increasing the equalized facilities levy formula, creating a debt service priority, increasing the facilities equalization appropriation and providing for a facilities revenue referendum; 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 and nonpublic school revenue, requiring the commissioner in cooperation with the commissioner of administration and the Minnesota education telecommunications council to develop reimbursement criteria; 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 the use of a certain prior appropriation to the commissioner for a grant to independent school district 2887, McLeod West; modifying certain prior appropriations to the commissioner for health and safety, debt service, interactive television (ITV), alternative facilities bonding and one time facilities aids to reflect a certain forecast; 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; approving and appropriating money to the commissioner for maximum effort capital loans to independent school districts 38, Red Lake, 115, Cass Lake, 2399, Caledonia, 306, LaPorte and 914, Ulen-Hitterdahl; 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; specifying certain headnote change instructions to the revisor of statutes; providing for facility consolidation impact revenue for certain school districts; 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 for telecommunication access cost and facilities consolidation impact revenues, for interest on flood loans to independent school districts 595, East Grand Forks and 2854, Ada-Borup, for one time facilities aid including grants to independent school districts 25, Pine Point and 495, Grand Meadow, for maximum effort capital loans and for a building lease start up grant for an Eritrean community center ARTICLE 5 EDUCATION EXCELLENCE AND OTHER POLICY Changing 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 school nurses to administer nonprescription drugs or medicines to students; authorizing the use of reasonable force by teachers and school employees in disciplining students, requiring inclusion of the authority in school discipline policies; authorizing the commissioner to approve certain license programs in administration or supervision offered by entities other than colleges or universities; providing for board of teaching issuance of licenses to applicants trained in other states and for pre or automatic approval of community experts; requiring school districts or charter schools to request criminal history background checks on hired nonlicensed community experts; creating an exception to a certain restriction on the membership of school site decision making teams; providing for school district disposal of surplus school computers and related equipment; 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 references 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; specifying a time limit for appeal of school board charter school sponsorship denials to the commissioner; authorizing licensed teachers employed at the schools to constitute a majority of the members of boards of directors under certain conditions; 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; requiring school districts to grant extended leaves of absence to school or teacher professional association employees to teach at charter schools; authorizing the commissioner to approve different eligible sponsors or to terminate existing sponsorial relationships under certain conditions; specifying certain eligibility requirements and modifying the formula for charter school building lease aid; changing the charter school integration revenue program to a grant program, authorizing commissioner adoption of application guidelines; modifying a certain learning year program transportation reporting requirement of school districts; expanding the authority of charter schools and contracted alternative programs to use current year compensation revenue pupil units based on the number of pupils eligible for free or reduced price lunch; 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; 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; providing for school bus endorsements on class D drivers licenses and authorizing the temporary driving of school buses without an endorsement under certain conditions; placing the responsibility for endorsement status on the commissioner of public safety, the school bus driver and the employer of the driver; authorizing the commissioner 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; clarifying the definition of teacher for teachers retirement associations (TRA) coverage purposes; authorizing towns to spend money to support student academic and extracurricular activities sponsored by local districts; increasing certain prior appropriations to the commissioner for charter school building lease aid and start up grants; establishing the Minnesota new teacher project in the department of children, families and learning to retain new teachers; requiring the commissioner of employee relations (DOER) to convene a task force to identify strategies and make recommendations relating to providing postretirement and active employee health care coverage for public employees; 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 2000-2001 school year, excepting independent school district 238, Mabel-Canton; requiring and providing for the board of trustees of the Minnesota state colleges and universities (MnSCU) to establish a teacher preparation program involving metropolitan state university, Inver Hills community college and Minneapolis community and technical college, requiring a progress report to the legislature by a certain date; providing a charter school building lease aid adjustment for certain fiscal years; requiring the department 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 the postretirement and active employee health care report, for a start up grant for a new charter school with a business immersion program occupying a publicly owned building in St. Paul and for grant awards for national board for professional teaching standards certification; repealing the additional days of student instruction requirement ARTICLE 6 NUTRITION AND OTHER PROGRAMS Janet B. Johnson Parents Right to Know Act of 2000, regulating the application of pesticides at schools; authorizing school districts to permanently transfer funds without a levy reduction under certain conditions; increasing the school lunch aid formula and certain prior appropriations to the commissioner of children, families and learning for abatement, nonpublic pupil, consolidation transition and nonpublic pupil transportation aids and the school breakfast program; eliminating the proration requirement for school lunch aid; authorizing certain fund transfers in independent school districts 787, Browerville, 771, Chokio-Albertta, 544, Fergus Falls, 495, Grand Meadow, 194, Lakeville, 832, Mahtomedi, 2215, Norman county east, 15, St. Francis, 2170, Staples-Motley, 2609, Win-E-Mac and 947, Parkers Prairie; extending the agreements for the use of space in technical colleges between the intermediate school districts and the board of trustees of the Minnesota state colleges and universities (MnSCU); requiring the attorney general and the commissioner of natural resources (DNR) to review federal restrictions on school trust fund lands; appropriating money to the department of children, families and learning for grants to organizations assisting young immigrants in becoming literate and acquiring vocational skills, for matching grants for education programs serving homeless children, for a grant and administrative expenses to facilitate planning for a cooperative secondary facility under a joint powers agreement among independent school districts 411, Balaton, 402, Ivanhoe, 404, Lake Benton, 418, Russell, 584, Ruthton and 409, Tyler, for an arts via the Internet collaborative project between the Walker arts center and the Minneapolis institute of arts, for best practices graduation rule seminars, for the Minnesota children s museum reading program, for the Minnesota new teacher project, 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 a grant to independent school district 2134, United South central for the sobriety high program; repealing the expiration date for fast break to learning grants ARTICLE 7 LIBRARIESAuthorizing the use of total operating capital revenue for library media centers; modifying 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 8 DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN, FAMILIES AND LEARNING 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; authorizing the department and local school districts to purchase computer hardware and software from specific vendors, specifying certain technology standards prescription restrictions ARTICLE 9 - TECHNICAL, CONFORMING AND CLARIFYING AMENDMENTS Making conforming amendments to certain statutory provisions relating to compulsory instruction residency, American sign language English interpreters services reimbursement, 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, equity and learning and development revenues, the rulemaking authority of the commissioner of children, families and learning, appropriation transfers, high school student work hours restrictions and alternative facilities bonding and nonpublic pupil transportation aids; specifying certain renumbering and cross reference correction instructions to the revisor of statutes; repealing certain redundant and conflicting provisionsARTICLE 10 - HIGHER EDUCATION APPROPRIATIONSAppropriating money to the board of trustees of the Minnesota state colleges and universities (MnSCU) 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 the North Star research coalition, for child care in the newly renovated Kirby center at the Duluth campus and for the agricultural rapid response fund; providing for the use of surplus 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 reclamation of taconite mining lands; repealing certain rules ARTICLE 11 EARLY CHILDHOOD AND FAMILY 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; specifying certain ABE consortium requirements; establishing an adult basic education policy review task force to advise the commissioner on program and funding policies for ABE programs; authorizing and providing for commissioner grants in consultation with the 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; 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, community and adult basic education and adult 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; requiring consortiums receiving additional funding based on population aid to proportionately distribute the funding to noneducation institution members based on the percentage of contact hours provided; requiring the commissioner of economic security to establish policies and procedures to address the findings in the evaluation of the energy assistance program by the department of administration; appropriating money from the federal temporary assistance for needy families (TANF) block grant fund to the commissioner of children, families and learning for transitional housing programs, for basic sliding fee, MFIP social service and education and transition year child care and from the general fund for ABE supplemental service grants, for the ABE policy review task force, for the citizenship promotion program, for adults with disabilities pilot programs and for emergency services grants; requiring the commissioner of economic security to submit a report to the legislature by a certain date detailing the costs and benefits of operating the energy assistance program; transferring energy assistance and weatherization responsibilities from the department of children, families and learning to the department of economic security; specifying certain renumbering and cross reference change instructions to the revisor of statutes; repealing a certain existing provision providing for ABE aid (je, ja)