Providing for the funding of kindergarten through grade 12 education programs and servicesARTICLE 1 - GENERAL EDUCATION REVENUECreating 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 annual reporting requirement of school superintendents relating to expenditures to achieve certain basic standards test passage rates; 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 for data reporting consistency purposes; modifying certain levy and revenue recognition requirements; increasing the minimum reimbursement requirement for contracted alternative programs; clarifying the calculation of pupil units for prekindergarten pupils with a disability; modifying the general education and basic skills revenue formulas; increasing the general education basic revenue formula allowance; clarifying the calculation of supplemental revenue and the authorized use of total operating capital revenue relating to telecommunication access costs; increasing the equity revenue formula and the regional equity gap percentile; defining classroom teacher and class size and modifying instruction contact time and class size reduction requirements for learning and development revenue purposes, expanding the authorized use of additional revenue and specifying certain school district annual revenue receipt and use report public availability requirements; authorizing school districts to reallocate general education revenue attributable to early graduation for optional all day kindergarten programs; eliminating the general use authorization under basic skills or compensatory revenue; making permanent the authority of school districts to allocate a certain percentage of compensatory revenue to school sites according to a school board plan; expanding annual school district basic skills revenue expenditure report content requirements relating to expenditures to increase student achievement levels; making certain technical modifications to certain referendum revenue and levy provisions and restating certain referendum date requirements; eliminating the requirement for school districts to report estimated reallocations of general education revenue among buildings; increasing the limit on levies for retired employee health benefits; clarifying school district judgment levy authority, authorizing spreading over a certain number of years with the approval of the commissioner of children, families and learning; updating certain school district recordkeeping requirements; eliminating certain estimated general fund savings requirements relating to aid adjustments due to employer retirement contribution rate changes; modifying the adjusted general revenue formula for commissioner statewide average revenue estimate purposes; accelerating the repeal of the education finance act of ; requiring the department of children, families and learning 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 by the amount of difference between the estimated and actual revenues; delaying the payment of airport runway impact pupil unit aid to the Richfield school district; extending the availability of certain prior appropriations to the department for sparsity correction and special education cross subsidy revenues; creating the legislative task force on reducing the complexity and inequities of kindergarten through grade 12 education funding, specifying membership requirements and duties; providing tornado impact declining pupil aid for independent school district 2190, Yellow Medicine east; increasing supplemental revenue for independent school districts 11, Anoka and 709, Duluth; requiring the commissioner to collect data from school districts needed to examine pupil transportation costs for certain ridership categories and to report to the legislature by a certain date; 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; requiring the commissioner to calculate the change in estimated net interest earnings for each school district attributable to the repeal of the general education levy for referendum conversion adjustment purposes; appropriating money to the department for general and supplemental education, enrollment options transportation, abatement, nonpublic pupil and nonpublic pupil transportation and consolidation transition aids, for grants to independent school districts 2190, Yellow Medicine east and 508, St. Peter for tornado impact declining enrollment aid and to independent school district 690, Warroad for operation of the Angle Inlet school, for the transportation study and for a positive aid adjustment for independent school district 482, Little Falls; repealing certain obsolete provisions relating to nonresident district enrollment , the definition of average salary for beginning teachers for training and experience index calculations purposes, referendum and desegregation revenue conversion, cooperation revenue and operating debt levies, the aid reduction for a levy revenue recognition change, the supplemental revenue and allowance reduction and referendum offset adjustment formulas, a certain unpaid judgment levy provision and certain provisions passed in the omnibus tax bill during the 2001 special session of the legislature ARTICLE 2 EDUCATION EXCELLENCEProviding for extended school calendars to provide additional staff development days for teachers, authorizing contracts based on the calendars; describing the structure of advanced placement and international baccalaureate programs and expanding teacher training programs participation eligibility to other interested educators; prohibiting school district involuntary career tracking of students; expanding statewide testing requirements to the seventh grade and modifying certain student academic achievement levels report content requirements of the commissioner of children, families and learning; requiring the commissioner to develop and implement a system for measuring academic achievement and individual student progress consistent with the statewide educational accountability and educational system, specifying certain system requirements and requiring submittal of a plan to the legislature by a certain date; requiring the commissioner to establish student academic achievement levels, school sites identified as not meeting expectations to develop continuous improvement plans, specifying certain commissioner assistance requirements; requiring the commissioner to establish a second achievement benchmark to identify improving schools; expanding the reasonable force standard for student discipline to school principals; specifying certain annual teacher candidate skills examination reporting requirements of the board of teaching; eliminating the requirement for alternative teacher preparation programs to be affiliated with post-secondary institutions, requiring the board to permit demonstration of licensure competencies in school based and other nontraditional teacher licensure pathways; requiring school districts or charter schools to provide the board with confirmation of the completion of background checks for nonlicensed community experts employed by the districts or charter schools; providing for alternative competency based licensing for school administrators; specifying certain additional staff development and salary requirements for teachers electing to continue contracts based on an extended school calendar; authorizing school boards and exclusive representatives of school principals to negotiate a plan for a probationary period for internally hired principals; clarifying first class city teacher discharge or demotion hearing procedures and expanding school board notice requirements; defining best practices relating to teachers; expanding the definition of school to charter schools for background check requirements purposes; simplifying procedures for desegregation district transfers, applying nonresident pupil enrollment limits under the enrollment options (open enrollment) program to the transfers; specifying certain conflict of interest prohibitions for members of charter school boards of directors; modifying the charter school formation procedure, specifying certain annual audit requirements, eliminating certain appeal authority, increasing certain sponsor monitoring and evaluation assessment limits, restricting and regulating related party leases, establishing a charter school advisory council, requiring commissioner review and approval of building lease aid applications and prohibiting use of the aid for operating costs and specifying certain reporting requirements for the receipt of state aid payments; eliminating the residency requirements for learning year program participation; expanding record system content requirements of area learning centers relating to learning year programs, extending authorized student participation, expanding learning plan requirements, modifying certain revenue computation and reporting requirements and establishing a process to address certain audit findings; modifying certain American Indian language and culture education programs provisions and expanding eligibility for Indian scholarships; modifying the integration revenue formula for certain school districts; modifying the definition of pupil of limited English proficiency; expanding the jurisdiction of the office of desegregation integration and extending the expiration date of the advisory board and the state multicultural education advisory committee; establishing an alternative teacher compensation system and aid, specifying certain education improvement plan and school site accountability requirements; modifying certain requirements for the receipt of general education revenue for learning year programs; providing a pupil adjustment for closed charter schools and contracted alternative programs for current school year revenue computation purposes; increasing the allowable enrollment at the Perpich center for arts education (arts high school); modifying a certain condition for the operation of type A school buses without a school bus endorsement; requiring teacher contracts not resulting from interest arbitration to maintain the structural balance of school district budgets; providing for the establishment of a laboratory school in independent school district 482, Little Falls and for the expansion of flexible learning year programs for the establishment of pilot projects to permit school districts to use alternative models for delivering education; requiring and providing for independent academic and financial performance evaluations of school districts, specifying certain required core categories of analysis; specifying certain statewide test content requirements and requiring the commissioner to adopt and publish a policy to provide public and parental access to statewide tests and assessments for review purposes and to develop a process to allow students to take the basic skills test in grade ; specifying certain reading competency requirements for the St. Croix River education district; prohibiting the commissioner from imposing an audit penalty on independent school district 138, North Branch; waiving the teacher contract deadline and penalty for the 2002-2003 biennium; requiring the state high school league to report to the legislature by a certain date on the interest of charter school students in participating in resident district athletic activities; specifying certain science teacher licensing requirements of the board of teaching; authorizing school districts receiving career and technical education aid to levy for the aid; setting the school district integration levy formula for taxes payable in 2002; appropriating money to the department of children, families and learning for AP and IB examination fees and teacher training and support programs, for the administration of statewide tests, for charter school building lease and integration aid and startup grants, for best practices graduation rule seminars, for integration aid, for minority fellowship and teachers of color program grants and minority teacher incentives, for magnet school grants and startup aid, for interdistrict desegregation or integration transportation grants, for American Indian education programs, success for the future and teacher preparation grants and scholarships, for tribal contract school aid and early childhood family education (ECFE) programs, for first grade preparedness, education and employment transitions and collaborative urban educator recruitment and training programs and reading competency grants, for secondary vocational education aid, for youthworks programs, for the learn and earn graduation achievement program, for school evaluation services, for the Minnesota student organization foundation, for the Little Falls school district laboratory school, for alternative teacher compensation and for an LEP programs study; repealing Indian post-secondary preparation grants, the learn and earn graduation achievement program, a certain rules exemption under the learning year program, the post-secondary institution high school diploma warranty through remedial instruction and a certain rule requiring individual student progress reports for LEP students ARTICLE 3 SPECIAL PROGRAMSProhibiting requirements for parents to provide sympathomimetic medications as a condition of readmission after suspension under the pupil fair dismissal act; clarifying certification requirements for American sign language (ASL) English interpreters and oral or cued speech transliterators employed by school districts, authorizing and providing for the commissioner of children, families and learning to provide limited extensions for persons holding provisional certificates upon application; expanding the staff development revenue reservation requirement to preservice and in-service education for special education professionals and paraprofessionals; providing for the cessation of limited English proficiency (LEP) aid; increasing the membership of the state interagency committee, providing for special education representation; placing joint responsibility on school and county boards to coordinate, provide and pay for appropriate services for children with disabilities, requiring services conformity with individual interagency intervention plans (IIIP); requiring individual education plan (IEP) teams to consider positive behavioral interventions, strategies and supports addressing behavior for children with attention deficit disorder (ADD) or attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD); authorizing parents to decide on the provision of sympathomimetic medications to children placed in special education programs, refusal not to constitute educational neglect; modifying the special instruction and services cost reimbursement requirement; changing the part H state plan to the part C state plan under the interagency early childhood intervention system; 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 correcting the special education base revenue formula; providing for the payment of special education cross subsidy revenue for fiscal year 2002 using actual in lieu of estimated data; requiring the commissioner in conjunction with the commissioner of human services to develop a plan to identify possible revenue options from medical assistance (MA) funds and other appropriate federal funds and a recommended procedure for use at the local level and to develop and recommend a state billing process for school districts to use to optimize processing third party bills and report to the legislature by a certain date; requiring the board of teaching to review and report to the legislature on rules requiring board approved teacher preparation programs to include information on special education laws, teaching strategies and positive behavior interventions; appropriating money to the department of children, families and learning for special education and excess cost aids, for aid for program and transition costs for children with a disability and for teacher travel for home based services, for litigation costs, for court placed special education revenue, for special education out of state tuition, for a study on the use of sympathomimetic medications, for web based individual interagency intervention plans and for regional training sites for HIV STI education in schools ARTICLE 4 FACILITIES AND TECHNOLOGY Including nonpublic schools under bleacher safety certification requirements; modifying the debt service appropriation provision; modifying the school district health and safety revenue formula and expanding prohibited uses of the revenue; prohibiting 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; increasing the thresholds for commissioner of children, families and learning review and comment on building construction and modifying certain school district plan submittal and proposal content requirements; modifying the membership and 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; authorizing intermediate school districts to include administrative and classroom space lease costs in lease levy authority, limit; setting the maximum effort debt service levy for capital loans granted after a certain date, limiting eligibility for the loans and modifying certain loan amount limits; providing for the payment of one time deferred maintenance aid using actual in lieu of estimated data; expanding the authorized use of a certain prior appropriation to the commissioner for a cooperative secondary facilities grant to certain school districts to facilities and curricular planning and extending the grant to independent school district 402, Hendricks; authorizing intermediate school districts 916, Anoka, Ramsey and Washington counties and 917, Dakota county to issue general obligation bonds without voter approval, limits; requiring the department of administration to provide information to school districts interested in providing environmentally sustainable facilities; 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; providing for the payment of general education revenue for pupils in approved interactive web based and independent study programs; authorizing a levy by the Brainerd school district to reimburse the commissioner of human services for the costs of remodeling a certain building at the Brainerd regional human services center for school programs suitability purposes; appropriating money to the department of children, families and learning for health and safety, debt service, interactive television (ITV), alternative facilities bonding and certain declining pupil unit aids, for telecommunication access cost revenue, for electronic library for Minnesota and grants to school districts and charter schools for online courses; repealing the requirement for the commissioner to provide review and comment on indoor air quality ARTICLE 5 NUTRITION; SCHOOL ACCOUNTING; AND OTHER PROGRAMS Eliminating the prohibition on commissioner of children, families and learning debt redemption fund transfer authorizations; establishing the fast break to learning breakfast program, requiring the commissioner 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; including special education aid in the list of aids subject to the excess and deficiency reallocation procedure of the commissioner and regulating transfers for the payment of certain aids; making optional the requirement for the commissioner to reduce state aid for violation of law, authorizing withholding in lieu of reduction and expanding the list of violations to the use of funds contrary to the statutory purpose, providing for hearing on aid reductions or withholdings and authorizing appeal of final decisions of the commissioner; expanding the provision requiring the full payment of special education aids in the current fiscal year, eliminating the requirement for full payment of debt service aid and requiring full payment of first grade preparedness program aid; clarifying the payment of state aids for school nutrition programs; defining excess debt redemption fund balance for tax levy purposes, specifying certain school district notice and commissioner certification requirements and modifying the authority of school districts to retain debt redemption fund excesses; authorizing certain permanent fund transfers in independent school districts 306, LaPorte, 2853, Lac qui Parle valley, 391, Cleveland, 857, Lewiston, 418, Russell, 173, Mountain Lake and 473, Isle; authorizing independent school district 492, Austin to incur a certain deficit in the reserve for the capital operating account for the Westcott field improvement project to account for donations or contributions received for the project; requiring certain commissioner school district formula adjustments; 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 DEFICIENCIES Appropriating money to the department of children, families and learning for deficiencies in general education, secondary vocational, special education excess cost, health and safety, interactive television (ITV) and alternative facilities bonding aids ARTICLE 7 STATE AGENCIESEstablishing the board of school administrators to license school supervisory personnel other than athletic coaches, specifying certain 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 contracts and grants unit within the department to manage the contracting process for the department and to establish an internal audits office, Perpich center for arts education or Minnesota state academies contract or grant retroactivity clause; appropriating money to the department for the boards of teaching and school administrators, for the office of educational accountability, for the Minnesota academic excellence foundation, for the Minnesota and Duluth children's museums, for the Perpich center for arts education and for the state academies for the deaf and blindARTICLE 8 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 and to appropriation transfers for community education programs; repealing certain revisor notes relating to a certain previously repealed statutory provision relating to adult basic education aid (Ch. 6, 2001 First Special Session)