(4)E Providing for early childhood through grade 12 education programs and services ARTICLE 1- EARLY CHILDREN PROGRAMS Granting the commissioner of children, families and learning sole authority over the consolidated funding account; modifying the definitions of child care services and provider for child care programs purposes; eliminating the authority of certain county and human services boards to establish policies for payment of child care space for absent children; delaying the date for annual state interagency coordinating council recommendations to the governor and the commissioners of children, families and learning, health, human services, commerce and economic security policies for a comprehensive and coordinated interagency early childhood intervention system and extending the expiration date of the council; authorizing the commissioner of children, families and learning to adopt rules allowing community action agencies, Indian reservations and migrant and seasonal farmworker organizations to meet certain statutory responsibilities relating to financial assistance ARTICLE 2 SELF-SUFFICIENCY AND LIFELONG LEARNING Eliminating the emergency energy assistance, energy conservation and weatherization programs from a certain provision excluding programs transferred from the department of economic security to the department of children, families and learning from the consolidated funding account; modifying the definition of transitional housing relating to length of stay; extending the adult basic education programs audits schedule of the commissioner of children, families and learning; repealing certain transitional housing program location requirements ARTICLE 3 GENERAL EDUCATIONModifying the annual reporting requirement of school superintendents relating to the basic standards test; modifying the date for computation and establishment by the department of children, families and learning of the cost per pupil of textbooks, individualized instructional or cooperative learning materials, standardized tests and health and guidance and counseling services for allotment purposes; specifying a certain school district general education aid recognition requirement under certain tax settlement revenue excess conditions; modifying the calculation of pupil units for prekindergarten pupils with a disability; maintaining the supplemental revenue allowance and eliminating the required reduction; modifying the referendum revenue allowance formula and stabilizing the referendum equalization levy; eliminating certain school district general education revenue building allocations reporting requirements; modifying school district judgment levy authority; modifying the recordkeeping requirement of school districts relating to identification of transported students for aid distribution purposes; making optional the requirement for the commissioner of children, families and learning to reduce state aid for violation of law, authorizing withholding in lieu of reduction and expanding the list of violations to using funds contrary to the statutory purpose, providing for hearing and appeal of the final decision of the commissioner; eliminating the estimated net general fund savings for aid adjustments due to changes in employer retirement contribution rates; extending the availability of certain prior appropriations to the commissioner for sparsity correction and special education cross subsidy revenue; repealing the authority of the commissioner to approve pupil enrollment in a nonresident district, the definition of average salary for beginning teachers, the supplemental revenue reduction, certain school district referendum authority, cooperation revenue and certain aid reduction requirements relating to the levy revenue recognition change ARTICLE 4 EDUCATION EXCELLENCERequiring school boards offering licensed teachers the opportunity for more staff development training and additional salary to extend the school calendar; requiring and providing for school boards adoption of early reading assessment processes and intervention methods for students identified in the assessment process as needing intervention and requiring school districts to identify staff development needs for reading instruction programs implementation purposes; eliminating the authority of school districts to offer the test of basic requirements in reading, math and writing to students in grade ; 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 comprehensive, scientifically based and balanced reading instruction programs and providing for the licensure of reading specialists, requiring board approved teacher preparation programs for elementary education teachers to require instruction in the application of the reading instruction programs; restricting the authority of the board to require tests of pedagogical knowledge or licensure specific teaching skills as a condition of licensure; eliminating the requirement for alternative teacher preparation programs to be affiliated with a post-secondary institution, requiring the board to permit demonstration of licensure competence in school based and other nontraditional pathways; requiring confirmation of background checks for nonlicensed community experts employed by school districts or charter schools; providing for alternative competency based licensing for school administrators; providing opportunities for additional staff development days for teachers, specifying certain contract terms and conditions requirements; authorizing school boards and exclusive representatives of school principals to negotiate a plan for a probationary period for internally hired principals; clarifying certain teacher discharge or demotion hearing procedures and expanding school board notice requirements; changing the teachers of color program to the multicultural educators program; simplifying procedures for desegregation district transfers, applying nonresident pupil enrollment limits under the enrollment options (open enrollment) program to the transfers; expanding the purposes of charter schools and eliminating a certain provision placing the burden of proof for conversion to a charter school of a school scheduled for closure on the charter school applicant; making optional the requirement for the commissioner to sponsor authorized charter schools and specifying certain audit compliance requirements; modifying the definition of pupil of limited English proficiency; expanding eligibility for Indian scholarships and modifying certain financial aid requirements; broadening the scope of the office of desegregation integration to nonmetropolitan school districts and sunsetting the office advisory board; extending the expiration date for the state multicultural education advisory committee; increasing the maximum number of students allowed to be accepted at the Perpich center for the arts high school; authorizing an extended teacher contract period by mutual agreement of the school board and exclusive representatives; authorizing independent school district 238, Mabel-Canton to permanently begin the school year before Labor Day; authorizing the commissioner to adopt, amend or repeal rules relating to the licensure of school administrative personnel and to amend certain rules for state graduation requirements using the expedited process, requiring the commissioner to include a personal and family financial management and investment content standard; requiring the commissioner to report the recommendations responding to the achieve report for the revised profile of learning content standards and learning areas to the legislature by a certain date; requiring a Minnesota state high school league report to the legislature by a certain date on the interest of charter school students in participating in athletic activities; requiring the commissioner to develop a process to allow students to take the basic skills test beginning in grade 5; repealing a certain rule providing for individual student progress under the LEP program ARTICLE 5 SPECIAL PROGRAMSAuthorizing counties operating child care assistance programs to disseminate data on program participants, applicants and providers to the commissioner of children, families and learning, classifying data on individuals collected by the commissioner for programs administration purposes; requiring school districts to establish and implement procedures for the accurate and timely transfer of educational records to education facilities; requiring the commissioner to grant nonrenewable temporary certificates to school districts for persons not yet attaining a current applicable transliterator certificate under certain conditions; providing for special education representation on the state interagency coordinating committee; requiring and providing for joint responsibility of school and county boards to coordinate, provide and pay for appropriate services for disabled children; modifying the qualification requirements of hearing review officers and the reimbursement requirement under special instruction and services agreements; specifying authorized care and treatment facilities for children without disabilities; expanding the definition of essential personnel to cultural liaisons and special education paraprofessionals and clericals for special education revenue eligibility purposes and modifying the special education base revenue formula; expanding child maltreatment reporting requirements to school personnel relating to acts occurring in school facilities or school zones, requiring board or other licensing entity reports to the department of children, families and learning, granting the commissioner access to educational and law enforcement data for investigation purposes, prescribing a procedure for commissioner collection of data and assessment or investigation of reports, regulating confidentiality and disclosure, granting liability immunity to department employees relating to investigations of maltreatment reports and requiring the commissioner to inform the ombudsman for mental health and mental retardation of reports of maltreatment occurring in schools ARTICLE 6 FACILITIES AND TECHNOLOGYIncluding nonpublic schools under bleacher safety certification requirements; expanding cooperative secondary facilities grants eligibility to consolidating schools; increasing the dollar thresholds for commissioner of children, families and learning review and comment before building construction and modifying certain school district plan submittal and proposal content requirements; repealing the requirement for the commissioner to provide review and comment on indoor air qualityARTICLE 7 LIBRARIESExtending the expiration date of the Minnesota library for the blind and physically handicapped advisory committee; repealing certain rules providing for public library construction grants ARTICLE 8 ADVISORY COMMITTEES AND MISCELLANEOUS K-12 EDUCATION PROVISIONSModifying American Indian education committee appointment and membership requirements, eliminating multiple committees, expanding advice requirements, authorizing multiple subcommittees and extending the expiration date; sunsetting the permanent school fund advisory committee; repealing the authority of the commissioner of children, families and learning to approve pupil enrollment in a nonresident districtARTICLE 9 - CURRICULUM AND ASSESSMENT Eliminating the stated purpose of violence prevention curriculum and the authority of the department of children, families and learning to provide assistance at neutral sites to nonpublic schools participating in the programs; repealing the instruction and curriculum advisory committee, the authority of schools to establish building teams to develop and implement education effectiveness plans, the requirement for school districts to evaluate constituency satisfaction for inclusion in the annual report and the endowed chair program ARTICLE 10 - STUDENT RIGHTS, RESPONSIBILITIES AND BEHAVIOREliminating certain content requirements for school zone dangerous weapon incidents reports and the requirement for the commissioner of children, families and learning to develop an alternative reporting format and reducing the frequency requirement for the reports; eliminating certain specific schoolAmerican flag display requirements; clarifying certain school children immunization requirements, requiring immunization statements to include the day of receipt of each additional immunization and eliminating certain requirements suspension authority of the commissioner of health; requiring school districts to adopt a process for addressing chemical abuse problem reports and eliminating certain specific requirements of school chemical abuse preassessment and school and community advisory teams; modifying the requirement to wear industrial quality eye protective devices; clarifying a certain provision providing for school safety patrols, eliminating the option for patrol members to wear fluorescent reflective vests; eliminating the requirement for the commissioner to encourage and assist school districts to cooperatively establish alternative educational services for pupils dismissed from school for dangerous, disruptive or violent behavior; eliminating certain school board hazing policy requirements; repealing the requirements for school boards to submit copies of harassment or violence policies to the commissioner and to provide flags and staffs for each district school building and the purpose statement for early childhood health and developmental screening ARTICLE 11 - TEACHERS AND OTHER EDUCATORSEliminating certain mandates relating to the register of licensed persons kept by the board of teaching; eliminating athletic coaches from the definition of supervisory personnel; eliminating the requirement for teachers to pay for requested copies of evaluations and files; requiring the scheduling of teacher duty free lunch periods by negotiated agreement; modifying a certain provision providing for the termination of coaches; eliminating the limit on the number of eligible teachers allowed to be employed as teacher residents; changing the term practice teachers to student teachers; eliminating the requirement for the board to consult with the teacher mentoring task force on approval or disapproval of teacher mentorship program applications; changing the designated state official from the commissioner of children, families and learning to the executive secretary of the board of teaching under the interstate agreement on qualifications of educational personnel and requiring records of contracts under the agreement to be kept on file in the office of the board of teaching instead of the office of the commissioner of children, families and learning; specifying certain renumbering and cross reference change instructions to the revisor of statutes; repealing a certain provision allowing the licensing of general teachers as teachers of English as a second language (ESL) courses, certain qualification requirements for assessment professionals, the license and degree exemption for head varsity coaches, a certain requirement for school boards and exclusive representatives of teachers to jointly develop a probationary teacher peer review process, certain provisions providing for general control of schools, teacher centers and the administrators academy and prohibiting the payment of wages to teachers delinquent in making certain reports and the purpose for research on program effectiveness ARTICLE 12 - SCHOOL DISTRICTS; FORMS FOR ORGANIZING Modifying the program focus for area learning centers; repealing the requirements for the centers to serve as resource centers to provide certain hours of instruction, the purpose statement relating to the establishment of education districts and certain school district cooperation and combination provisions ARTICLE 13 - SCHOOL DISTRICT POWERS AND DUTIESClarifying the general authority of school district boards and eliminating the separate requirement for school boards to provide free textbooks to pupils; eliminating certain school site decision making team membership and agreement content requirements, requiring school districts to provide certain notice to parents relating to the teams and eliminating certain duties of the commissioner of children, families and learning; eliminating the authority of school boards to enter into agreements with post-secondary institutions for secondary or post-secondary nonsectarian courses and certain duties of superintendents; clarifying certain duties and authority of school principals;clarifying the authority of school boards to charge part time student fees; eliminating certain inventory requirements for instructional materials loaned to nonpublic schools; modifying school building fire safety inspection requirements; modifying certain school bus safety training requirements for students, eliminating certain competency demonstration requirements and a certain provision encouraging districts to use the model policy; repealing certain school board powers relating to the removal of unauthorized vehicles, the acceptance of gifts, library facilities, summer school classes, services for Indians, school lunches, payment of medical insurance premiums for early retirees, education site achievement contracts, imprest cash funds and agricultural education, the policy relating to aid to nonpublic students, certain provisions imposing certain penalties for school district employee or county auditor failure to perform certain duties, the use of school buildings, advertising on school buses and requiring school boards to visit schools and certain transportation provisions ARTICLE 14 - EDUCATION PROGRAMSClarifying and modifying the requirement for school boards to provide kindergarten instruction; modifying the enrollment options (open enrollment) program application process; eliminating the counseling services, advanced student notice and certain credit requirements under the post-secondary enrollment options (PSEO) program; changing charter school purposes to expected outcomes and eliminating certain mandates for department of children, families and learning review and comment on performance evaluations and dissemination of certain information; modifying certain provisions relating to the school breakfast and milk programs; modifying the mandatory components of the family connections program, requiring the commissioner of children, families and learning approval of school district plans and applications for family connections aid; modifying the purpose of the youth entrepreneurship education program and of the Minnesota youth works act and certain youth works grant provisions and training and education requirements; modifying certain provisions relating to the education and employment transitions system and the comprehensive youth apprenticeship program and clarifying certain provisions relating to service learning programs; expanding the authorized sites for the provision of limited English proficiency (LEP) programs to nonpublic students, location to be a school district decision; eliminating the specified program options under American Indian language and culture education programs; eliminating the office of desegregation integration in the department and transferring related duties to the commissioner; eliminating the requirement for state multicultural education advisory committee participation in cross cultural initiatives grants criteria determination and award; eliminating the stated purpose of the Minnesota academic excellence foundation and modifying certain program requirements; specifying certain renumbering and cross reference change instructions to the revisor of statutes; repealing certain school board authority relating to secondary school programs, certain flexible learning year, service and work based learning, limited English proficiency and parental involvement programs provisions, the length of school year requirement for charter schools, a certain youth works grant priority requirement, certain responsibilities of the governor's workforce development council under the education and employment transitions system, the purposes of the first grade preparedness, school breakfast and graduation incentives programs and metropolitan magnet school grants, the policy statement under the American Indian education act, a certain exception to Indian education grant requirements, the authority of charter schools to participate in the school enrichment partnership program and the Minnesota local partnership act ARTICLE 15 - EDUCATION AND TECHNOLOGYEliminating certain references to computerized under the state information system and certain provisions relating to telecommunication access grants to school districts; repealing the state goals for technological advances in education, the requirements for the department of children, families and learning to maintain a current annual data acquisition calendar and to develop and operate a computerized data system, the authority of the department to provide by delegation of powers and duties for implementation and technical support of a computerized information reporting system and the grant program for regional clearinghouses for improving education technology ARTICLE 16 - EDUCATION FUNDING Clarifying the pupil unit count for school districts relating to certain adult students; eliminating certain alternative referendum date provisions; modifying the state policy on education funding ARTICLE 17 - STATE ADMINISTRATION OF EDUCATION Eliminating the authority of the commissioner of children, families and learning to appoint deputy commissioners and clarifying the general authority of the commissioner; eliminating certain recommendations and audit reporting requirements of the commissioner ARTICLE 18 - PERPICH CENTER FOR ARTS EDUCATION Modifying certain powers and duties of the board of the Perpich center for arts education ARTICLE 12 - REPEAL OF RULESRepealing certain rules relating to a certain community based education option, certain transportation and financial reporting requirements and determination of the school aid formula training and experience index (ja)