Providing for the funding of kindergarten through grade 12 education programs and servicesARTICLE 1 - GENERAL EDUCATION REVENUE Modifying the date for commissioner of children, families and learning certification of nonpublic pupil aid rates; modifying school district levy recognition requirements; increasing the minimum percentage of general education revenue required to be reimbursed by school districts to contracted alternative programs; clarifying the calculation of pupil units for prekindergarten pupils with a disability; removing the referendum offset adjustment from general education revenue; modifying the calculation of supplemental revenue; redefining instructor as classroom teacher and defining class size for learning and development revenue purposes; restricting instructional contact time requirements to the core subjects of reading and mathematics and class size reduction revenue to kindergarten through grade three, modifying the authorized uses of additional class size reduction revenue; specifying certain school district annual class size report public availability requirements; modifying the referendum equalization levy; eliminating the requirement for school districts to report estimated allocations and reallocations of general education revenue among buildings and the estimated net general fund savings requirement under the standing appropriation for aid adjustments due to changes in employer retirement contribution rates; requiring the department of children, families and learning to recalculate training and experience replacement and sparsity correction revenues for each district using actual in lieu of estimated data and to adjust general education aid paid to school districts for fiscal year 2002 by the difference between the estimated and actual revenues; extending the availability of certain prior appropriations to the department for sparsity correction and special education cross subsidy revenues; providing tornado impact declining pupil aid for independent school district 2190, Yellow Medicine East; appropriating money to the department for general and supplemental education, abatement, nonpublic pupil and nonpublic pupil transportation and consolidation transition aids, for transportation aid for enrollment options aid and for grants to independent school districts 2190, Yellow Medicine East and 508, St. Peter for tornado impact declining pupil unit aidARTICLE 2 EDUCATION EXCELLENCE Expanding the reasonable force standard for student discipline to school principals; requiring the board of teaching by a certain date to adopt rules for the licensure of elementary reading teachers; requiring confirmation to the board of background checks for nonlicensed community experts employed by school districts or charter schools; defining best practices under the teacher statutes; including charter schools in the definition of school for criminal 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; modifying the definition of pupil of limited English proficiency; consolidating the American Indian education programs and changing the advisory task force to a committee; 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; increasing the maximum number of students allowed to be accepted at the arts high school; requiring the state high school league to report to the legislature by a certain date indicating the interest of charter school students in participating in district athletic activities; appropriating money to the department of children, families and learning for advanced placement (AP) and international baccalaureate (IB) programs, for statewide testing, for charter school startup grants and building lease and integration aids, for school district integration aid, for best practices, minority fellowship, teachers of color program and cultural exchange grants, for minority teacher incentives, for magnet school grants and startup aid, for interdistrict desegregation or integration transportation grants, for American Indian language and culture and education programs, scholarships and success for the future and teacher preparation grants, for tribal contract schools aid and early childhood family education programs, for youthworks programs and for first grade preparedness and education and employment transitions program grants; repealing 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; 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; 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 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 children with a disability, transition programs and teacher travel for home based services, for special education litigation costs, for court placed special education revenue and for special education out of state tuition ARTICLE 4 FACILITIES AND TECHNOLOGYIncluding nonpublic schools under bleacher safety certification requirements; 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; 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; providing for the payment of one time deferred maintenance aid using actual in lieu of estimated data; appropriating money to the department for health and safety, debt service, interactive television (ITV), alternative facilities bonding and certain declining pupil unit aids and for telecommunication access cost revenue; repealing the requirement for the commissioner to provide review and comment on indoor air quality ARTICLE 5 NUTRITION; SCHOOL ACCOUNTING; AND OTHER 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; increasing state aid payments for certain school food and nutrition programs; authorizing the commissioner to allow independent school district 492, Austin to incur a certain operating capital account deficit for the Westcott field improvement project; 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 TECHNICAL AMENDMENTSMaking technical amendments to certain statutory provisions relating to the teaching of English as a second language (ESL) in adult basic education programs, the payment of special education aid to charter schools and of aid for transition programs for children with a disability to cooperative or intermediate school districts, determination of the legal residence of a child with a disability placed in a foster care facility and appropriation transfers for community education programs; repealing certain prior amendments made to a later repealed adult basic education provision ARTICLE 7 STATE AGENCIESExpanding the purposes of charter schools; requiring the commissioner of children, families and learning to return certain unspent funds received from the Pew charitable trusts without a specific appropriation; appropriating money to the department of children, families and learning for the department, for the Perpich center for arts education and for the Minnesota state academies for the deaf and the blind (je)