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SF 2691 Senate Long Description

Providing for the funding of early childhood through adult education programs and servicesARTICLE 1 GENERAL EDUCATION REVENUEReducing the formulas for determination by the commissioner of children, families and learning of the inflation adjustment for the cost per nonpublic pupil for textbooks and individualized instruction or cooperative learning materials and for nonpublic pupil transportation aid; reducing the reimbursement per credit hour to post-secondary institutions granting quarter credit to secondary students and to institutions granting quarter or semester credit to adult students and the formula for payments to school districts under the post-secondary enrollment options act; reducing the formulas for payments for graduation incentives and alternative programs and the formula for determination of shared time aid; all formula reductions to be by the same amount; limiting the determination of learning year program pupil units; modifying the general education, training and experience and equity revenue and regional and district equity gap formulas; prescribing a revenue growth limit adjustment formula; requiring certain reserved revenue reductions; modifying the referendum allowance formula and limit; authorizing school districts receiving equity revenue in fiscal year 2003 to convert the equity conversion allowance to additional referendum allowance, prescribing the equity conversion allowance formula; granting school districts certain fiscal year training and experience levy authority; prescribing a fiscal year 2004 general education aid formula; modifying certain prior appropriations to the commissioner for general and supplemental education, abatement, nonpublic pupil and nonpublic pupil transportation and consolidation transition aids; repealing a certain provision providing for payments to post-secondary institutions and school districts for adult students under PSEO and the provision providing for airport runway impact pupil unit aid for independent school district 280, RichfieldARTICLE 2 EDUCATION EXCELLENCELimiting the state subsidy for advanced placement or international baccalaureate examination fees to students from low income families; modifying the charter school building lease aid formula; increasing the school district integration levy formula and reducing the integration aid formula; sunsetting the provision enabling school districts to pay the employer share of work study student compensation; reducing certain prior appropriations to the commissioner of children, families and learning for AP and IB examination fees and teacher training and support programs, for charter school building lease and startup costs aids, for best practices graduation rule seminars and other professional development capacity building activities, for integration, magnet school startup and tribal contract school aids, for American Indian success for the future grants, for the Minnesota student organization foundation, for alternative teacher compensation and for collaborative urban educator recruitment and training programs; eliminating certain prior appropriations for education and employment transitions program grants and for reading competency grants; setting the base appropriations for youthworks programs and school evaluation services; repealing certain provisions providing for the education and employment transitions system, for the comprehensive youth apprenticeship program and for reading intervention and a certain prior appropriation to the commissioner for collaborative urban educator recruitment and training program grants ARTICLE 3 SPECIAL PROGRAMSReducing the program growth factor for special education revenue determination purposes; modifying certain prior appropriations to the commissioner of children, families and learning for special education and special education excess cost, students with disabilities and teacher travel for home based services aids and eliminating a certain prior appropriation for web based interagency intervention plan costs ARTICLE 4 FACILITIES AND TECHNOLOGYModifying certain standing appropriations to the commissioner of children, families and learning for the payment of debt service equalization aid; modifying certain provisions under the alternative facilities bonding and levy program; reducing certain prior appropriations to the commissioner of children, families and learning for health and safety, debt service and alternative facilities bonding aids and for telecommunications access cost revenue; repealing the alternative facilities aid after a certain date ARTICLE 5 NUTRITION; SCHOOL ACCOUNTING; AND OTHER PROGRAMSReducing a certain prior appropriation to the commissioner of children, families and learning for school lunch aid and modifying a certain prior appropriation for fast break to learning grants ARTICLE 6 STATE AGENCIESEliminating the board of school administrators and transferring supervisory personnel licensing authority and related powers and duties to the board of teaching; modifying certain prior appropriations to the commissioner of children, families and learning for department functions, for the Perpich center for arts education and for the Minnesota state academies; specifying certain term change and renumbering instructions to the revisor of statutes; repealing the Minnesota academic excellence foundation ARTICLE 7 CHILDREN AND FAMILY SUPPORTModifying the authority of school districts to levy for early childhood family education and the reserve account limit; eliminating the requirement for unused MFIP (Minnesota family investment program) social services child care money to be used for the basic sliding fee child care program; reducing certain prior appropriations to the commissioner of children, families and learning for ECFE and school age care aids, for MFIP child care and transition year families assistance and for MFIP social services child care and eliminating a certain prior appropriation for child care service grants; repealing certain provisions relating to certain child care and services programs and the way to grow school readiness program ARTICLE 8 PREVENTIONModifying the total community education levy formula; reducing certain prior appropriations to the commissioner of children, families and learning for community education aid, for after school enrichment grants and for department of military affairs guard our youth programARTICLE 9 SELF SUFFICIENCYModifying the state total adult basic education aid formula and the aid limit and eliminating the requirement for the commissioner of children, families and learning to establish procedures for conducting fiscal audits of adult basic education programs; modifying eligibility for the graduation incentives program and the counting of adult pupil units; reducing certain prior appropriations to the commissioner for economic opportunity grants and for adult basic education and graduation aids and eliminating a certain prior appropriation for adult basic education audits; reducing the base for family assets for independence; modifying the adult basic education aid formula for fiscal year 2004; repealing the lead abatement program, adult high school graduation aid and a certain provision providing for interim expansion for family day care licensure ARTICLE 10 LIBRARIESEliminating the base level funding for fiscal years 2004 and 2005 for regional library basic system support grants (ra)