1E Providing for the financing of kindergarten through grade 12 and early childhood and family education programs and services

ARTICLE 1 - GENERAL EDUCATION

Defining kindergarten for general education purposes; modifying the reimbursement credit hour for post-secondary educational institutions under the postsecondary enrollment options (PSEO) program; increasing the limited English proficiency (LEP) programs revenue formula and modifying shared time pupil aid; modifying certain pupil unit counts; modifying the general education revenue formula, increasing the basic revenue formula allowance and the extended time, compensatory education and training and experience revenue formulas and providing for secondary education and declining enrollment revenues; defining sparsity allowance and transportation allowance for elementary and secondary and transportation sparsity revenue determination purposes; modifying the total operating capital revenue formula and increasing the levy formula; modifying certain equity revenue qualification requirements, the regional and district equity gap formulas and the district equity index and increasing the equity levy formula; setting the transition allowance for fiscal years 2007 through 2010, modifying the transition revenue formula and increasing the transition levy formula; providing for discretionary revenue, levy and aid; modifying the calculation of general education aid and the referendum allowance and allowance limits; prescribing the total referendum revenue formula; modifying the calculation of referendum equalization revenue, increasing the levy and aid formulas and modifying certain ballot requirements; providing for the payment of telecommunications/internet access equity and shared time aids; providing for the reporting of certain students as kindergarten pupils; providing for certain school district transition revenue adjustments; providing fiscal year 2006 compensatory revenue for refugees; appropriating money to the commissioner of education for general education and referendum tax base replacement aids; repealing certain provisions relating to the teacher contract deadline and penalty, learning and development revenue amount and use and employer retirement contribution rate change aid adjustments

ARTICLE 2 - OTHER GENERAL PROGRAMS

Reducing the formula for the area learning center reserve revenue amount; requiring school district members of intermediate school districts to reserve a portion of discretionary revenue for the leasing of administrative and classroom space for intermediate school district programs; modifying the consolidation transition aid formula and the inflation adjustment for the cost of textbooks and other instructional materials; modifying the nonpublic pupil transportation aid and first grade preparedness revenue formulas; increasing the building lease levy formulas and restricting use of the levy after a certain date; providing for school boards certification of certain revenue amounts and for a reverse referendum; modifying the abatement adjustment formula; authorizing school districts to levy for the replacement of defective Carpenter school buses; appropriating money to the commissioner of education for enrollment options transportation, for abatement revenue, for consolidation transition and nonpublic pupil and transportation aids, first grade preparedness grants and for grants to independent school districts #690, Warroad to operate the Angle Inlet school, #241, Albert Lea, #2711, Mesabi East and #682, Roseau for declining pupil aid; repealing the retirement and severance levy for cooperating and combining school districts, the St. Paul severance levy, unemployment insurance program and judgment levies, the safe schools, ice arena and swimming pool levies, tree growth replacement revenue, certain special levy authority of independent school district #204, Kasson-Mantorville, the extended school hours and days levy authority of independent school districts #622, North St. Paul-Maplewood-Oakdale, #833, South Washington county and #834, Stillwater, the community library levy authority of independent school district #319, Nahwauk-Keewatin and the referendum conversion adjustment for interest earned due to the repeal of the general education levy

ARTICLE 3 - EDUCATION EXCELLENCE

Authorizing the board of school administrators to reimburse local school districts for the cost of teachers employed to substitute for regular teachers serving on the board; modifying the formulas for general education and transportation revenue and building lease and start up cost aids for charter schools and the formulas for determination of tribal contract or grant school aid, for integration revenue for independent school districts #709, Duluth and #625, St. Paul and special school district #1, Minneapolis and for start up cost aid for metropolitan magnet schools; modifying certain general education aid adjustment requirements for school districts with charter schools; authorizing the board of school administrator to adopt rules to revise and clarify qualifications for school superintendents and principals; appropriating money to the commissioner for student examination fees and teacher training and stipends, for charter school building lease and startup and integration aids, for magnet school grants and startup aid, for interdistrict desegregation or integration transportation grants, for American Indian teacher preparation and success for the future grants and scholarships, for tribal contract schools, for youthworks programs, for student organizations, for online learning aid, for the education planning and assessment and college level examination programs, for the collaborative urban educator program and for career and technical education grants

ARTICLE 4 - SPECIAL PROGRAMS

Modifying the authority of charter schools to charge tuition to districts of residence for special education aid eligibility purposes; modifying the nonresident tuition rate and certain other costs for children with disabilities; modifying the definition of program growth factor for special education revenue purposes and the formulas for state total special education and excess cost aids; providing for special education levy revenue and levy equalization and supplemental excess cost aids; requiring the adjustment of special education aid under alternative attendance programs and modifying the tuition payment formula; appropriating money to the commissioner of education for special education and special education regular equalization and excess cost aids, for aids for children with disabilities 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 5 - FACILITIES AND TECHNOLOGY

Increasing the equalized debt service levy formula and reducing the debt service appropriation; increasing the health and safety levy; providing for deferred maintenance revenue, levy and aid; reducing certain levy formulas under the maximum effort school aid program; appropriating money to the commissioner of education for health and safety revenue, for debt service equalization, alternative facilities bonding and deferred maintenance aids and for equity in telecommunications access

ARTICLE 6 - NUTRITION

Appropriating money to the commissioner of education for school lunch, traditional school breakfast and summer school food service replacement aids

ARTICLE 7 - LIBRARIES

Appropriating money to the commissioner of education for regional library basic system support grants, for multicounty multitype library systems, for the electronic library for Minnesota and for regional library telecommunications aid

ARTICLE 8 - EARLY CHILDHOOD FAMILY SUPPORT

Requiring the assignment of early childhood developmental screening student identification numbers and increasing developmental screening aid; modifying school readiness program requirements and the aid formula; appropriating money to the commissioner of education for school readiness program revenue, for early childhood family education (ECFE) and health and developmental screening aids and for head start programs

ARTICLE 9 - COMMUNITY EDUCATION AND PREVENTION

Increasing the school age care levy formula; appropriating money to the commissioner of education for community education, adults with disabilities program and extended day aids and for programs for hearing impaired adults

ARTICLE 10 - SELF SUFFICIENCY AND LIFELONG LEARNING

Increasing state total adult basic education aid formula and modifying the adult basic education program aid limit; requiring the commissioner of education to establish a reimbursement grant program to fund intensive English as a second language (ESL) programs for adult refugees; appropriating money to the commissioner for adult basic education aid, for GED tests, for intensive English instruction grants and for lead hazard reduction

ARTICLE 11 - STATE AGENCIES

Appropriating money to the commissioner of education for the Minnesota children's museum, for the Minnesota academy of science, for administration of the scholarship tax credit, for statewide testing support, for alternative teacher programs, for the value added index assessment model, for school readiness program administration, for development of interactive science assessments and for development and distribution to school districts of materials addressing the dangers of methamphetamine, to the boards of teaching and school administrators, to the state academies for the deaf and blind and to the Perpich center for arts education

ARTICLE 12 - OTHER GENERAL EDUCATION POLICY

Modifying the area learning centers reserved revenue formula, adding basic skills revenue to the calculation; correcting the name of a certain manual used to record revenues and expenditures for extra curricular (extracurricular) activities; providing for school district recognition of taconite revenue; expanding building expenditures reporting requirements, removing the exclusion of capital expenditures and pupil transportation; changing the name of school district general fund accounts from undesignated fund balance to unreserved general fund balance for funds transfer and operating debt calculation purposes and defining unreserved general fund balance; modifying certain graduation incentive program enrollment verification requirements, excluding compensatory revenue from the reduction requirement for part time students; clarifying the formula for aid for alternative programs provided under contract; providing for the calculation of project based average daily membership for the distribution of general education revenue for pupils enrolled in public schools with project based programs; modifying certain school district general education aid taconite deduction and levy taconite reduction requirements; accelerating the date for annual notice to the commissioner of education of final certified levies; modifying the census requirement for school districts, requiring use of the most recent federal census; clarifying the requirement for county auditors to set property tax levy amounts relating to school district funding; modifying the distribution of excess taxes on captured net tax capacity of tax increment financing (TIF) districts to school districts; repealing certain obsolete statutory operating debt reduction and levy requirements

ARTICLE 13 - OTHER EDUCATION EXCELLENCE POLICY

Eliminating the requirement for school superintendents to annually report to the commissioner on basic standards tests student passage rate support; specifying certain annual special education cross subsidy reporting requirements of the commissioner

ARTICLE 14 - OTHER FACILITIES AND TECHNOLOGY POLICY

Modifying certain notice publication requirements under the alternative facilities bonding and levy program; clarifying the authorized uses of capital project referendum accounts; authorizing the commissioner of education to exempt facilities maintenance projects funded under the alternative facilities bonding and levy program from review and comment requirements

ARTICLE 15 - OTHER CHILDHOOD FAMILY SUPPORT POLICY

Clarifying the authorized uses of early childhood family education (ECFE) revenue and school readiness aid; authorizing school districts to allocate a certain percentage of compensatory revenue to support prekindergarten programs, requiring reservation and use for programs and activities preparing certain prekindergarten children from families eligible for the free or reduced price school lunch program for kindergarten

ARTICLE 16 - OTHER PREVENTION POLICY

Transferring the responsibility for the lead abatement program from the commissioner of education to the commissioner of health; specifying certain renumbering instructions to the revisor of statutes
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