2E Providing for the financing of early childhood, family and adult education programs and services

ARTICLE 1 - EARLY CHILDHOOD

Providing for the treatment of and access to student mental health screening results; expanding early childhood developmental screening requirements, requiring optional screening for socioemotional development and screening for autism spectrum disorders and the assignment of student identification numbers, providing for followup assessments and for optional screening by public or private health care organizations or individual health care providers in lieu of the school district and modifying developmental screening aid; prohibiting the use of parental refusal to consent to the administration of psychotropic drugs or to a psychiatric evaluation, screening or examination as the sole basis for prohibiting the child from attending a class or participating in a school related activity and prohibiting school districts from recommending the use of psychotropic drugs; increasing early childhood family education revenue; requiring and providing for the commissioners of education and human services to disseminate information to parents or guardians and to education providers on early learning guidelines for kindergarten entrance purposes; modifying certain school readiness program provisions, requiring development assessments to guide curriculum planning and to promote kindergarten readiness and coordination with relevant community based services; requiring the programs to submit biennial plans to the commissioner of education for aid receipt approval purposes and requiring annual reports; modifying certain contract requirements and requiring adoption of a sliding fee schedule; establishing the Minnesota early learning foundation as a public private partnership to identify cost effective ways to deliver quality early care and education experiences and parent education for families with children at risk of being unprepared for school, requiring governance by a board of public and private citizens, a review and planning advisory committee and an appropriation match and providing for the award of grants; increasing certain appropriations for ECFE, school readiness and health and developmental screening aids and for head start programs; requiring the coordination of early care and education programs by the commissioners of education, human services and health, progress report requirement; requiring the commissioner of education to establish a system for assessing school readiness for kindergarten, specifying certain initiative, evaluation and reporting requirements and providing for a phased in implementation; providing supplemental ECFE aid for certain school districts; requiring and providing for the commissioner to award a planning grant to develop a project in northwest Hennepin county to promote the school readiness of children through coordination and collaboration with community and neighborhood based services helping to stabilize at risk families, specifying certain planning projects eligibility and application requirements and providing for distribution of the grants, specifying a match requirement and requiring grantee establishment of program advisory committees; appropriating money to the commissioner for the early learning foundation, for administration of early childhood programs and for grants to promote kindergarten readiness and family support; repealing certain existing provisions governing school readiness programs and aid

ARTICLE 2 - CHILD CARE

Expanding eligibility for child care assistance; providing a child care provider rate bonus for Montessori accreditation; establishing a new parent fee schedule; increasing certain appropriations for the basic sliding fee program; requiring the commissioner of human services to monitor the progress relating to meeting the goals of the child care assistance program and report to the legislature by a certain date and in partnership with the ready 4 K quality rating system task force to develop a plan by the same date for a voluntary quality rating system for child care providing consumer information to parents, identifying quality child care settings and raising the quality of care in child care settings, specifying certain requirements of the system; requiring the commissioner to study the feasibility of setting a standard statewide license fee for licensed family child care providers and report recommendations to the legislature by a certain date; appropriating certain unexpended basic sliding fee funds to the commissioner for certain future years and providing additional money for administration purposes

ARTICLE 3 - ADULT BASIC EDUCATION

Providing supplemental community education revenue for certain school districts; increasing the state total adult basic education aid and requiring ABE aid unpaid due to certain program aid limits to be added to the state total ABE aid for the next fiscal year or reallocated among programs; establishing an adult literacy grant program for recent immigrants to the state to meet English language needs; increasing a certain appropriation to the commissioner of education for ABE aid and appropriating money to the commissioner for the supplemental community education revenue and for the adult literacy grants

ARTICLE 4 - PREVENTION POLICY

Transferring responsibility under the lead abatement program from the commissioner of education to the commissioner of health; increasing the school age care levy; specifying certain renumbering instructions to the revisor of statutes
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