1E Modifying certain education programs and services policy provisions

ARTICLE 1 - EDUCATION EXCELLENCE

Providing for parental discretion in classroom placement of multiples; expanding required academic standards to physical and health education; providing for waiver of certain academic standards for students participating in certain rigorous courses of study; modifying high school level mathematics course requirements, specifying the number of required course credits for physical and health education and reducing the number of elective course credits required for graduation; clarifying certain school board instruction and curriculum policy adoption requirements and authorizing web site publication of annual student achievement reports; expanding certain fee or subsidy payment requirements for advanced placement (AP) and international baccalaureate (IB) programs; regulating and providing for student participation in gifted and talented programs; providing for instruction on documents relating to American heritage; modifying statewide testing requirements for students in grade 8; providing for parental access to statewide tests and assessments; requiring and providing for the commissioner of education to implement a value added assessment program to assist school districts and schools in assessing and reporting growth in student academic achievement and to award grants to public school sites to increase student achievement and eliminate the achievement gap; requiring school district electronic reporting of dangerous weapons incidents and student exclusions and expulsions; requiring school board policies prohibiting intimidation and bullying; authorizing secondary students to possess and use nonprescription pain relievers under certain conditions; providing for comprehensive family life and sexuality education programs; modifying certain teacher preparation reading instruction requirements for licensing purposes; providing for consecutive teaching experience for probationary teachers with consecutive employment interrupted for active military service and for probationary periods for assistant principals and an alternative teacher layoff procedure under the teacher tenure act, defining work year for teacher probationary period completion purposes; requiring substantial teacher participation in the development of school district educational improvement plans; providing a principled pay practices system and aid for teachers in lieu of alternative teacher compensation aid, authorizing the reopening of collective bargaining agreements for principled pay practices and educational improvement plan purposes; requiring and providing for commissioner selection of a certain number of schools as regional sites for the development of teacher mentoring programs; authorizing school board employee recognition and criminal apprehension and arrest reward programs; providing concurrent enrollment program aid to school districts offering programs under the post-secondary enrollment options (PSEO) program certified by the national alliance of concurrent enrollment partnership and requiring or encourage post-secondary institutions to award credit for successful completion of the programs; authorizing the board of the Perpich center for arts education to sponsor charter schools; providing for the payment of extended time and transition revenues as part of the general education revenue formula for charter schools and clarifying the prohibition on the receipt of aids, grants or revenue based on certain levies; modifying eligibility for services under assurance of mastery programs relating to students failing certain tests; authorizing American Indian education programs in charter schools and eliminating the required involvement of the American Indian education advisory committee in grant and scholarship awards; providing for gifted and talented revenue as part of general education revenue; requiring and providing for the commissioner to continue implementation of the no child left behind act without interruption, requiring nullification and revocation of implementation plans, contracts or agreements on a certain date; authorizing the board of the Perpich center for arts education to conduct meetings by telephone or other electronic means; expanding the definition of public employee under the public employment labor relations act (PELRA) to early childhood family education (ECFE) teachers employed by school districts; modifying court findings requirements for children adjudicated in need of protection or services relating to drivers licenses or permits; providing for commissioner concurrent enrollment mathematics and science partnership program grants to partnerships between post-secondary educational institutions and school districts to expand mathematics and science courses offered in the high school and to enhance staff development; requiring the higher education advisory council to convene a working group to develop college preparation standards; specifying certain duties of the commissioner relating to adopting rules to implement the Minnesota comprehensive assessments second edition (MCA-IIs) in reading, mathematics and writing, to transmitting to school districts health and physical education model benchmarks and to amending rules for supplemental services providers to include outcome standards; requiring the office of educational accountability to evaluate the educational impact of the federal no child left behind act and other state and federal laws requiring school districts to administer tests to kindergarten through grade twelve students; requiring the commissioner to work with the Minnesota school boards association to develop a model policy prohibiting intimidation and bullying; requiring school districts and department of education development of certain licensed student support services; requiring the board of teaching to prepare and submit to the legislature by a certain date proposed licensure requirements for teachers of interdisciplinary curriculum to facilitate learning in state approved innovative schools and programs; appropriating money to the department of education for concurrent enrollment program and principled pay practices aids, for concurrent enrollment mathematics and science partnership program grants and aid and for the university of Minnesota and state colleges and universities to become provisional members of the national alliance of concurrent enrollment partnership and for schools mentoring schools regional sites; repealing a certain existing provision providing for programs to prevent and reduce the risks of sexually transmitted infections and diseases and the alternative teacher compensation system

ARTICLE 2 - SPECIAL PROGRAMS

Expanding aversive and deprivation procedures to positive behavioral interventions and supports and time outs and modifying and expanding certain rule requirements of the commissioner of education; establishing a student support services advisory committee, specifying certain membership requirements and duties; providing for the establishment of education administrative districts and district boards to increase the efficiency of administrative services; expanding the definition of transportation services for pupils with disabilities for transportation aid entitlement purposes; restoring school district career and technical levy authority; prohibiting nonresident school districts providing special instruction and services from billing special education tuition costs to resident districts without resident district participation or declination of participation by the resident district in the development of the individual education plan; modifying certain membership requirements for special education parent advisory councils and the date for annual submission by the state interagency coordinating council of recommendations to the governor and certain commissioners on policies for a comprehensive and coordinated special instruction system; providing transportation for homeless pupils; requiring the commissioner to designate a state coordinator for world languages education within the department and specifying certain duties of the coordinator; requiring the commissioner to appoint an advisory committee to advise the staff of the Minnesota library for the blind and physically handicapped on long range plans and library services; establishing the native language eminence credentialing task force to support the teaching and revitalization of the Dakota and Anishinaabe languages, specifying certain membership requirements and duties; providing for the awarding of model extended world language program grants by the commissioner; requiring and providing for the establishment of a temporary task force on the delivery of special education services to nonpublic school students by public school districts with the congressional reauthorization of the federal individuals with disabilities education act to compare and evaluate individual needs for services; appropriating money to the department of education for world languages programs grants

ARTICLE 3 - TECHNOLOGY, FACILITIES AND NUTRITION

Expanding certain school or school district parental and participant notice requirements relating to the use of certain older pools for supervised competitive high school diving training and competitions; requiring school districts to include certain acoustical performance criteria in facility construction proposals; modifying the online learning program, establishing a temporary online learning advisory council; providing telecommunications/internet access equity aid to school districts or charter schools, requiring school districts to provide telecommunications/internet access services for nonpublic schools upon request; authorizing and providing for administrative regions of the state high school league to contract with the state auditor or with private certified public accountants (CPA) to perform annual audits; requiring schools, school districts and the department of education to comply with the schools interoperability framework specifications to provide for efficient student data sharing, requiring the commissioner of administration and the chief information officer to establish a school data sharing working group; requiring the commissioner of education to select computer based adaptive assessments to accurately measure student achievement and growth in conjunction with federal statewide testing and reporting requirements and a certain number of school districts to participate in a student portfolio demonstration project; repealing certain provisions providing for structurally balanced school district budgets, for a payment priority under the online learning option and certain high school league auditor report content requirements
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