E Providing for the funding of early childhood through grade 12 educationprograms and servicesARTICLE 1 GENERAL EDUCATIONCreating the school and university fund mineral lease suspense accounts and providing for temporary distribution of state taconite lease payments to the accounts; requiring the commissioner of natural resources (DNR) and the director of the Coleraine laboratory to establish programs of grants to taconite mining companies for product or production improvements, appropriating money to the commissioner and to the university of Minnesota for the programs; authorizing secondary student early graduation upon completion of required standards as well as courses; modifying the authority of school districts to charge fees for the transportation of students; changing the date for the department of children, families and learning to compute nonpublic pupil aid rates and guidance and counseling expenditures for the upcoming school year and modifying the inflation adjustment determination formula; modifying certain levy and revenue recognition requirements and the nonpublic pupil transportation aid formula; modifying the pupil unit weighting factors, clarifying the factor for prekindergarten pupils with a disability; modifying the general and compensatory education, basic skills, secondary and elementary sparsity and total operating capital revenue formulas and increasing the basic revenue formula and transportation sparsity revenue allowances; phasing out training and experience revenue; clarifying the authorized use of total operating capital revenue relating to telecommunication access costs; creating separate equity revenue formulas for metropolitan and greater Minnesota school districts and modifying qualification requirements; providing a phased revenue allowance and adjustment for certain school districts; modifying certain class size reduction revenue reservation requirements, defining classroom teacher and class size and modifying instruction contact time and class size reduction requirements for learning and development revenue purposes, expanding authorized use of additional revenue and specifying certain school district annual revenue receipt and use report public availability requirements; specifying certain gifted and talented programs revenue reservation requirements; authorizing school districts to reallocate general education revenue attributable to early graduation for optional all day kindergarten programs; increasing the general education tax rate; extending the authority of school districts to allocate a certain percentage of compensatory revenue to school sites according to a school board plan; requiring the department to adjust district referendum allowances for the pupil weighting adjustments and modifying the referendum revenue allowance formula and limit; increasing the referendum equalization revenue and levy formulas; authorizing certain school districts to convert supplemental and transition revenue conversion allowances to an additional referendum allowance upon school board approval and providing for a board approved referendum allowance for certain other school districts; increasing the limit on levies for retired employee health benefits; expanding the authority of the commissioner of children, families and learning to transfer certain appropriation excesses to appropriations for special education programs; modifying the adjusted general revenue formula for commissioner statewide average revenue estimate purposes; holding certain school districts with a referendum allowance harmless for revenue received from taconite taxes; requiring the department to recalculate training and experience replacement and sparsity correction revenues for each school district using actual in lieu of estimated data and to adjust the general education aid paid to districts for fiscal year 2002 by the amount of difference between the estimated and actual revenues; specifying the supplemental and transition revenue conversion allowance formulas; requiring certain commissioner education formula adjustments to neutralize the effect of the changes in pupil unit weights; requiring the department to allow independent school district 482, Little Falls to extend the time period for repayment of state aid overpayments due to miscalculation of pupil units for certain fiscal years; providing pupil base transition revenue for certain school districts; adjusting the initial referendum revenue allowance for independent school district 709, Duluth; appropriating money to the department for general and supplemental education, enrollment options transportation, Richfield airport impact, abatement, nonpublic pupil education and transportation and consolidation transition aids, for pupil base transition revenue and for a grant to independent school district 690, Warroad to operate the Angle Inlet school; repealing the supplemental revenue, levy and aid formulas, the supplemental revenue reduction, the transition allowance and transition revenue, levy and aid adjustment formulas, the referendum offset adjustment and the training and experience index and providing a contingency repeal of a certain proposed emergency energy assistance provision for school districts ARTICLE 2 EDUCATION EXCELLENCEExpanding statewide testing requirements to the seventh grade, requiring the commissioner of children, families and learning to determine the order of administration of the tests and modifying certain student academic achievement levels report content requirements of the commissioner; requiring the commissioner to establish a statewide continuous improvement system, specifying certain system component requirements, eliminating the role of the legislature in determining state expectations, expanding school site student achievement improvement plan content requirements and requiring the commissioner to create a continuous improvement support system to provide technical assistance to school sites and districts identified as needing improvement and to establish and maintain a continuous improvement web site for data availability purposes; requiring the board of teaching to adopt rules requiring licensed teachers renewing continuing licenses to include in renewal requirements further preparation in the application of and advisory staff development committees to include in staff development plans the goal of providing teachers with training for the effective use of technology in the classroom; establishing a temporary teachers for the 21st century initiative to attract and retain qualified teachers in areas of identified shortages and to support new teachers in schools with high levels of poverty, providing for targeted loan forgiveness or tuition reimbursement, alternative license teaching academy, individual certificate account and mentoring and induction support programs within and requiring annual commissioner reports to the legislature on the initiative; changing charter school building lease aid to base aid and establishing the state total and charter school building lease aid formulas; modifying certain learning year program requirements, eliminating certain student participation limits, specifying certain area learning center record system content requirements, expanding continual learning plan and modifying certain revenue computation and reporting requirements and establishing a process to address audit findings; reinstating the current formula for career and technical (secondary vocational) aid and authorizing use of a certain percentage of the aid for school counselor salaries; increasing the district contribution to private contracted alternative programs aid; modifying certain provisions under the American Indian education act, consolidating the existing programs into one program and changing the advisory task force to an advisory committee; providing for integration aid equity; establishing a temporary performance incentive pool program for school districts or sites to create new compensation packages and career paths for teachers built around measurable student outcomes and teaching improvement, specifying eligibility and application requirements; modifying certain school district continual learning plan development requirements for pupils in alternative programs; requiring the department of children, families and learning to report to the legislature by a certain date on the distribution of integration revenue, specifying certain report content requirements; requiring the commissioner to adopt and publish a policy to provide public and parental access for review of statewide tests and assessments; appropriating money to the department for statewide testing and graduation standards support, for advance placement (AP) and international baccalaureate (IB) programs, for charter school building lease and integration aids and startup grants, for best practices graduation rule seminars and other professional development activities, for integration aid, for minority teacher incentives and teachers of color and cultural exchange grants, for magnet school grants and startup aid, for interdistrict desegregation or integration transportation grants, for American Indian language and culture and education programs, success for the future and teacher preparation grants and scholarships, for tribal contract school aid and early childhood family education (ECFE) programs at tribal schools, for first grade preparedness grants, for career and technical education aid, for youthworks programs, for education and employment transitions program grants, for the learn and earn graduation achievement program, for department development of the advance achievement and accountability system, for the performance incentive pool, for the teachers for the 21st century program, for collaborative urban educator recruitment and training programs grants, for the independent school district 283, St. Louis Park Meadowbrook collaborative housing project and for a limited English proficiency (LEP) programs study; repealing certain school calendar requirements, the authority of the commissioner to exempt certain districts from certain financial accounting and reporting requirements for learning year program participation purposes, the Indian post-secondary preparation grant program and the repeal of career and technical education aid ARTICLE 3 SPECIAL EDUCATIONExpanding the staff development revenue reservation requirement to preservice and in-service education for special education professionals and paraprofessionals and education programs in care and treatment facilities to children with disabilities, providing for care and treatment facility education programs for students with or without disabilities; expanding the definition of essential personnel for special education revenue purposes to support services staff and adding the cross subsidy reduction factor to the state total special education aid formula, defining cross subsidy reduction factor; increasing the program growth factor for special education excess cost aid determination purposes and requiring school districts to document and bill third party revenue sources for health related services for aid eligibility purposes; requiring the department of children, families and learning to recalculate special education cross subsidy revenue for each district using actual in lieu of estimated data and to adjust the general education aid paid to districts by the difference between the estimated and actual revenue; requiring the commissioner of children, families and learning by a certain date to develop a plan to identify possible revenue options from medical assistance (MA) funds and recommend a procedure for use at the local level for individual interagency intervention plan implementation purposes and to develop a central statewide billing process for school districts to process third party bills including medical assistance; requiring the board of teaching to review and report to the legislature on rules requiring board approved teacher preparation programs to include teacher preparation program information on special education laws, teaching strategies and positive behavior interventions; appropriating money to the department for special education and special education excess cost aids, for aids for children with a disability, for teacher travel for home based services and for transition programs for pupils with disabilities, for the payment of certain litigation costs, for court placed special education revenue, for special education out of state tuition, for development, administration and interagency training costs associated with a statewide web based individual interagency intervention plan and for HIV STI education regional training sites ARTICLE 4 FACILITIES AND TECHNOLOGY; FUND TRANFERSProhibiting the department of children, families and learning from excluding private contractors from the opportunity to provide health and safety services to school districts; expanding school district eligibility for participation in the alternative facilities bonding and levy program relating to average age of building space; expanding the membership and modifying the responsibilities of the Minnesota education telecommunications council; changing references to data lines and video links to data and video connections under certain telecommunications access revenue provisions and extending the expiration date of the program; prohibiting the use of lease levy revenue for arenas after a certain date; requiring the department to recalculate one time deferred maintenance aid for each district using actual in lieu of estimated data and to adjust the general education aid paid to districts by the difference between the estimated and the actual aid; requiring the commissioner of children, families and learning to allow independent school district 492, Austin to incur a certain deficit in the reserve for the capital operating account for the Westcott field improvement project, requiring elimination of the deficit by a certain date and deposit of donations or contributions received by the district for the project in the reserve account; authorizing and providing for independent school district 625, St. Paul to issue general obligation bonds for acquisition and betterment of school facilities, limit, requiring a property tax levy for debt service payment purposes; requiring the commissioner to report to the legislature by a certain date with recommendations relating to online learning, specifying certain report content requirements; providing for the payment of general education revenue for pupils in approved interactive web based programs; requiring the commissioner to award grants to school districts for the electronic delivery of courses; providing declining pupil unit aid for independent school district 2190, Yellow Medicine East for certain fiscal years; authorizing permanent funds transfers in independent school districts 2853, Lac qui Parle Valley, 391, Cleveland, 306, LaPorte, 418, Russell, 473, Isle and 173, Mountain Lake; authorizing independent school district 696, Ely to levy for additional transportation capital costs associated with the annexation of Fall Lake township, requiring approval for the detachment and annexation by the Ely school board and by the school board of independent school district 381, Lake Superior, specifying certain boundaries; authorizing independent school district 361, International Falls to levy for swimming pool net operations costs; authorizing the Brainerd school district to reimburse the commissioner of human services for certain Brainerd regional human services center remodeling costs; appropriating money to the department for health and safety, debt service, interactive television (ITV) and alternative facilities bonding aids, for telecommunication access cost revenue, for declining pupil unit aid for independent school districts 508, St. Peter and 2190, Yellow Medicine East, for grants to independent school districts 2752, Fairmont and 199, Inver Grove for the electronic delivery of academic courses, for education program planning grants to independent school districts 13, Columbia Heights and 281, Robbinsdale, for the electronic library for Minnesota and for a technology integration grant to independent school district 392, Le Center ARTICLE 5 NUTRITION PROGRAMSEstablishing the fast break to learning breakfast program, requiring the commissioner of children, families and learning to provide funding to certain targeted breakfast program grant recipients and to certain public or nonpublic elementary schools participating in the federal school breakfast and lunch programs; establishing a revolving fund for the deposit of cash received for commodity donated foods; clarifying the payment of state aid for school food and nutrition programs; establishing a pilot project for the identification of children eligible for free and reduced price school meals; appropriating money to the department of children, families and learning for school lunch and breakfast and summer food service replacement aids and for fast break to learning grants; repealing the existing fast break to learning grant program ARTICLE 6 EARLY CHILDHOOD PROGRAMSAuthorizing community early childhood councils to integrate funding available through head start, child care services grants, early childhood family education and school readiness under integrated funding and service plans, requiring the commissioner of children, families and learning to provide technical assistance to communities or planning groups for the development of early childhood care and education plans describing strategies to be used to target resources to children at risk, specifying certain local integration funding eligibility requirements and geographic area requirements; authorizing head start grantees to use state funds for services to certain younger low income children and families and specifying certain work plan requirements for state head start funds eligibility purposes; modifying the definitions of child care services and provider and defining state median income and student for child care programs consolidation purposes and requiring the commissioner of children, families and learning to prepare a plan to control program expenditures; providing a formula for the allocation of certain excess child care funds; providing for continued participation in the child care assistance program after a family move; authorizing state issuance of federal child care assistance payments; increasing the maximum rate of assistance under the at home infant child care program, requiring calculation of the assistance to reflect the family income level during participation in the program; eliminating the authority of the commissioner to certify advance or to terminate payments to counties and certain county child care fund plan content requirements and extending the time limit for commissioner approval of the plans; authorizing counties to continue to serve families with incomes above the eligibility parameters with county funds and requiring counties not serving families with county funds to start a waiting list under certain eligibility restriction conditions, specifying certain county reporting requirements; modifying certain general child care assistance eligibility requirements, providing eligibility for persons participating in employment plans or during education or training; authorizing the commissioner to accept county contributions for centralized state payments purposes; modifying the subsidy restriction; authorizing state vendor or direct parent payments; requiring and providing for the commissioner to establish a teacher education and compensation helps grant program (TEACH) to provide tuition scholarships and education incentive and retention bonuses to child care and education providers and staff; providing for the recognition of accredited school age child care programs; modifying certain early childhood health and developmental screening requirements; requiring the commissioners of children, families and learning and human services to identify a plan to maximize the use of early and periodic screening, diagnosis and treatment program funding and to report to the legislature by a certain date with recommendations for better coordination among current public funding streams; modifying the age requirements for developmental screening; expanding screening program component requirements to health and developmental history and requiring consistency of the components with standards of the commissioner of children, families and learning; requiring the provision of application materials for the MinnesotaCare program to children without health coverage; requiring school districts to report results of referrals and subsequent interventions to the commissioner; expanding school board information and notice requirements; increasing developmental screening aid for school districts and providing funding for follow up on referrals and subsequent interventions; requiring a certain amount of money to be annually available for statewide training, technical assistance and outreach; specifying certain school district ECFE program plan review and approval requirements and requiring coordination of the programs with existing community based programs and service providers, requiring assistance from district advisory councils; specifying certain district annual report requirements; increasing ECFE revenue, reducing the levy and imposing a reserve account limit, requiring adjustment for unused funds; authorizing school readiness programs to provide a continuum of flexible services, modifying eligibility requirements and requiring coordination with other community programs and the inclusion of family involvement and education; modifying the goals of the programs and providing certain strategies for achieving the goals; authorizing school district contracts with private organizations to provide developmentally appropriate services and the provision of quality enhancement grants; requiring information sharing and facilitation of the transition to kindergarten; expanding advisory council membership requirements, service priorities upon funding availability and recordkeeping and reporting requirements; modifying certain school readiness aid program plan requirements, requiring the commissioner to develop an evaluation framework for qualifying school districts to use in documenting results of the programs, modifying the school readiness aid formula, providing an aid guarantee and specifying a target requirement for aid used for instruction and certain reserve account requirements; requiring the commissioner to establish an interagency committee to coordinate state services for children with autism; providing for the establishment of early childhood care and education services demonstration projects to provide a full continuum of services for young children; requiring the commissioner to develop a plan to implement an early childhood care and education services system, requiring establishment of a temporary task force to study issues relating to the plan and to report recommendations to the legislature by a certain date; providing additional ECFE aid for certain school districts; appropriating money to the department of children, families and learning for school readiness programs revenue, for ECFE and health and developmental screening aids, for early childhood care and education services demonstration projects, for head start programs, for school age child care, for consolidated child care assistance, for child care program integrity and fraud prevention, for child care services and improvement grants, for child care market rate surveys, for TEACH grants and for the at home infant child care program; transferring certain sums from the federal TANF fund to the child care and development fund for child care consolidated assistance; specifying certain renumbering and cross reference change instructions to the revisor of statutes; repealing the definition of transition year families, certain basic sliding fee program provisions, certain eligibility provisions under the MFIP (Minnesota family investment program) child care assistance program, a certain provision providing for the use of certain money to reduce child care costs for students, certain funding allocation priorities and the county maintenance of funding effort requirementARTICLE 7 PREVENTIONAuthorizing the commissioner of children, families and learning to disburse children's trust fund for the prevention of child abuse money for child abuse prevention programs and authorizing the transfer of state funds appropriated for child maltreatment prevention grants to the trust fund special revenue account; requiring the commissioner to develop a plan to disburse money from the trust fund and appropriating money from the fund for operational costs; requiring the commissioner to develop teen pregnancy prevention programs; expanding abused children programs grants to programs providing neglect intervention services; establishing the child abuse and neglect prevention and intervention council to advise the commissioner on the implementation and continued operations of child abuse programs, specifying membership requirements and responsibilities; restricting after school enrichment program grants to certain charitable organizations and requiring the commissioner to give a grant priority to certain applicants; appropriating money to the department of children, families and learning for family services collaboratives, for community education and adults with disabilities program aids, for hearing impaired adults and abused children programs, for the children's trust fund, for family visitation centers and for violence prevention education, after school enrichment and chemical abuse prevention grants; specifying certain renumbering and cross reference change instructions to the revisor of statutes; repealing certain provisions providing for the disbursement of funds for child abuse prevention and the advisory council, the male responsibility and fathering grant program and the educational program for pregnant minors and minor parentsARTICLE 8 SELF SUFFICIENCY AND LIFELONG LEARNINGAuthorizing the department of corrections to receive adult basic education aid; providing for ABE supplemental services grants as a state total adult basic education aid set aside and reducing the proportion requirement, requiring a certain percentage of the state total adult basic education aid to be set aside for the grants; modifying the adult basic education program revenue formula; appropriating money to the department of children, families and learning for Minnesota economic opportunity grants, for adult basic education and graduation aids, for payment of certain GED test costs, for foodshelf programs, for family assets for independence, for lead abatement and for ABE administration; appropriating federal temporary assistance for needy families (TANF) block grant funds to the commissioner of children, families and learning for intensive English as a second language (ESL) for eligible Minnesota family investment program (MFIP) participants ARTICLE 9 LIBRARIESProviding for regional library telecommunications aid, specifying eligibility and application requirements and providing for the awarding of funds by the commissioner of children, families and learning, sunset provision; requiring the commissioner to include in recommendations for a permanent method of funding telecommunications access for schools a permanent method to fund telecommunications access as part of the basic support grants for public libraries; appropriating money to the department of children, families and learning for regional library basic system support grants, for multicounty multitype library systems, for regional library telecommunications aid, for state agency libraries and for the library for the blind; repealing the regional library telecommunications access grant programARTICLE 10 STATE AGENCIESEstablishing the board of education leadership to license school supervisory personnel other than athletic coaches, specifying membership requirements, requiring appointment of members by the governor with the advice and consent of the senate, providing for organization of the board and specifying duties; requiring the commissioner of children, families and learning to establish a division of gifted and talented services and a contracts and grants unit to manage the contracting process within the department and an internal audits office and to return certain unspent funds received from the Pew charitable trusts; creating the legislative task force on equitable education funding of public schools, specifying membership requirements and duties, requiring recommendations on education funding system equity and quality improvement to the legislature by a certain date; appropriating money to the department of children, families and learning for the teaching and learning, management and community services and policy development programs, for certain affiliated organizations, for the legislative task force, for the board of education leadership, for the Perpich center for arts education and for the state academies for the deaf and the blind ARTICLE 11 TECHNICAL AMENDMENTSMaking technical amendments to certain statutory provisions relating to licensure requirements for teachers of English as a second language (ESL), to the payment of special education aid to charter schools, to the allocation of revenue from cooperative centers and intermediate districts for transition programs for children with a disability, to the legal residence of a child with a disability placed in a foster facility, to the referendum equalization levy and to certain appropriation transfers; correcting a certain provision providing for a cooperative secondary facilities grant to certain school districts; repealing certain amendments made to certain previously repealed statutory provisions relating to adult basic education aid (je, ja)