3E Relating to education;

ARTICLE 1 - GENERAL EDUCATION

Modifying certain school district levy recognition, general education revenue formula, learning year program calendar options, area learning center (ALC) service requirements, operating capital levy and aid, transportation sparsity revenue allowance, equity revenue, district equity gap and index, equity levy and aid, transition revenue, equity allowance, levy and aid, basic alternative teacher compensation aid, alternative teacher compensation levy and aid, general education aid; permitting district and charter school grade level acceleration instructional programming; requiring charter schools and area learning centers to inform students and parents of learning year option; requiring a consolidated tax rate establishment and permitting district consolidated levy, limit; reducing general education aid to cooperative member school districts failing to meet federal special education maintenance of effort; authorizing safe schools levy for intermediate school district member districts; charter school payments and certain abatement and aid adjustments; requiring certain county auditor reports to the commissioner of education; limiting new alternative compensation school districts by the department of education; providing consolidated levy adjustment school district eligibility; modifying the education improvement account; specifying independent school district #801, Browns Valley, pupil units; providing declining pupil unit aid for independent school districts #801, Browns Valley #38, Red Lake; requiring a school finance study; authorizing independent school districts #316, Greenway and #93, Carlton to levy for retired employee health benefits; appropriating money to the department of education for general education aid, referendum tax base replacement aid, enrollment options transportation, abatement revenue, consolidation transition, nonpublic pupil education aid and transportation, independent school district #690, Warroad, Angle Inlet school, compensatory revenue pilot project, consolidated levy adjustment, independent school districts #801, Browns Valley and #38, Red Lake and for an education finance study; providing a revisor of statutes instruction; repealing specific enrollment options in nonresident districts, operating capital levy and aid, regional equity gap, equity region, levy and aid, transition levy and aid, basic alternative teacher compensation aid and alternative teacher compensation levy and aid

ARTICLE 2 - EDUCATION EXCELLENCE

Requiring charter and nonpublic schools to transfer student records to student school of residence, requiring inclusion of form disciplinary actions in records transfer; modifying graduation requirements by allowing career and technical education courses to fulfill science, mathematics or arts credits requirements; adding international baccalaureate (IB) programs under raised academic achievement programs; modifying highly qualified teacher definition for purposes of the federal no child left behind act; setting basic alternative teacher compensation aid, an alternative teacher compensation levy and alternative teacher compensation aid; allowing school districts to use revenue for teacher graduate study; allowing school boards to authorize and fund school administrator local economic development association or civic organization memberships; modifying district superintendent test instrument use requirement; authorizing school districts to provide transportation to certain students attending high need English language learner programs; limiting online learning application rejection and authorized charter schools; eliminating a charter school formation option; clarifying charter school real property leasing restrictions, requiring closed charter school student records transfer; providing for after school community learning programs and the Minnesota reading corps program; increasing the career and technical levy; authorizing certain school districts to apply for a waiver from the requirement to maintain racial balance (diversity); requiring the commissioner of education to establish American Indian (native American) scholarship award distribution procedures; requiring parent and family involvement policy school board adoption and early intervention for adequate yearly progress; modifying certain no child left behind review reporting requirements and conditions for continued implementation of the no child left behind act without interruption by commissioner of education; providing for a Mandarin Chinese pilot program; appropriating money to the department of education for charter school building lease and start up aid, integration aid, magnet school grants, interdistrict desegregation or integration transportation grants, American Indian (native Americans) success for the future, scholarships, teacher preparation grants, tribal contract school and early childhood programs at tribal schools, the statewide testing and reporting system, examination fees, teacher training and support programs, first grade preparedness, the youth works program, student organizations, the educational planning and assessment system (EPAS) program, the college level examination program (CLEP), best practices, the Mandarin Chinese program, the Minnesota reading corps program, collaborative urban educator recruitment and training programs, alternative teacher compensation aid, professional teaching standards, statewide science, technology, engineering and math initiative, St. Croix river education district, after school community learning grants and Libre Academy Sober school; providing a revisor of statutes instruction; repealing licensure exemption for limited English proficiency (LEP) or English as a second language teachers

ARTICLE 3 - SPECIAL PROGRAMS

Modifying transportation aid entitlement; changing the term base revenue to initial aid and removing a commissioner of education option to adjust base revenue to reflect certain expenditures; modifying definitions under access to transition system for children with disabilities; making optional the nonpublic school pupils limited English proficiency (LEP) program offering at public or nonpublic schools; requiring equalization aid attributable to a student to be included in the nonresident tuition rate determination for nonresident special instruction students; authorizing districts to provide extended school year services to certain children with disabilities; requiring state travel aid payment for community based services to children with disabilities; clarifying program aid and approval eligibility; requiring school district annual special education litigation costs reporting; modifying special education base revenue, state total special education, school district special education, initial excess cost and state total special education excess cost aids and out of state tuition; including equalization aid in the alternative attendance program general and special education aids determination; setting current special education aid, excess cost aid and transition for disabled students and transition program disabled revenue entitlement; restricting application for an extension of the uniform special education tuition billing calculations exemption; appropriating money to the department of education regular special education, aid for children with disabilities, travel for home based services, special education excess costs, transition for disabled students, court placed special education revenue and special education out of state tuition; repealing coordinating interagency services, special education summer school, adjusted transition disable base revenue, state total transition program disabled revenue, school district transition disabled revenue and aid and adjusted special education base revenue

ARTICLE 4 - FACILITIES AND TECHNOLOGY

"Cooperative Facilities Grant Act"; renaming the cooperative secondary facilities grant act the cooperative facilities grant act; expanding eligibility for the program; increasing the cap for grants; appropriating money to the commissioner of education for grants and authorizing the issuance of state bonds for the cooperative facilities grant program; modifying the definition of eligible debt service revenue; modifying debt service appropriation, health and safety revenue, energy conservation measures information under review and comment for school district construction requirements and the ice arena levy; limiting school district capital project levies time duration; requiring school district review and comment information to include energy conservation measures; extending the general obligation bond sunset for special school district #1, Minneapolis; excluding certain school district levies included in the debt service levy from tax exemption treatment under job opportunity building zone (JOBZ) property treatment; requiring school districts to certify to county auditors district proposed property tax levy; authorizing and providing for independent school district #625, St. Paul, with voter approval to issue general obligation bonds to provide funding for the acquisition or betterment of school facilities, requiring tax levy for debt service; authorizing an exception to the building lease levy requirements for independent school district #16, Spring Lake Park for administrative purposes; authorizing independent school district #2311, Clearbrook-Gonvick to use health and safety revenue to demolish the Gonvick school building; authorizing independent school district #463, Eden Valley Watkins to levy for the costs of environmental remediation loan, to receive environmental remediation loan revenue and requiring department reduction of district general education aid; appropriating money to the department of education for health and safety revenue, debt service equalization, alternative facilities bonding aid, deferred maintenance aid, equity in telecommunications access, security reimbursement aid, Eden Valley-Watkins loan and Rocori school district

ARTICLE 5 - NUTRITION AND ACCOUNTING

Modifying certain reporting requirements; requiring school districts to eliminate certain reserve account established in district general funds prior to a certain date; increasing school lunch aid computation; requiring the commissioner of education to do a study on the true cost of operating a school district in different regions and to make school district formula adjustments for adjusted net tax capacity, equalizing factors, tax rates and maximum effort exceptions; authorizing certain fund transfers for independent school districts #181, Brainerd, #852, Campbell-Tintah, #81, Comfrey, #698 Floodwood, #361, International Falls, #2895, Jackson County Central, #2884, Red Rock Central and #177, Windom and #738, Holdingford; appropriating money to the department of education for school lunch aid, traditional school breakfast and kindergarten milk and summer school food service replacement aid; repealing structurally balanced school district budgets

ARTICLE 6 - LIBRARIES

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

ARTICLE 7 - EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION

Specifying a head start allocation full use deadline; requiring school districts to inform parents of the right to decline early childhood developmental screening under condition of signed parental statement; increasing early childhood developmental screening aid; allowing nonresident participation in early childhood family education (ECFE) programs, adding parenting skills and certain structured learning activities to curriculum, requiring biennial plan and annual data submission and prohibiting districts from certifying ECFE levies without biennial plan and annual data submission; increasing school district revenue for ECFE programs; permitting ECFE revenue use for equipment purchasing and ECFE levy eligible districts with collaborative agreements to levy for home visiting; requiring school readiness programs to include learning experiences for children and families promoting early literacy skills; appropriating money to the department of education for school readiness, ECFE aid, health and developmental screening aid, head start program, educate parents partnership and kindergarten readiness assessment initiative and intervention program

ARTICLE 8 - PREVENTION

Appropriating money to the department of education for community education aid, adults with disabilities program aid, hearing impaired adults and school age care aid

ARTICLE 9 - SELF-SUFFICIENCY AND LIFELONG LEARNING

Modifying the adult basic education program aid limit; increasing the general education development (GED) test fee; appropriating money to the department of education for adult basic education aid, GED tests and adult literacy grants for recent immigrants, to the department of health for lead hazard reduction; repealing the adult basic education guarantee

ARTICLE 10 - STATE AGENCIES

Requiring the commissioner of education to submit an annual report to the legislature on district special education cross subsidies; modifying marriage license application depository requirements; authorizing commissioner of education career and technical education and statewide graduation tests rulemaking; providing for a certain state employee compensation increase; appropriating money to the department of education, the Minnesota state academies for the deaf and blind and the Perpich center for arts education

ARTICLE 11 - EDUCATION FORECAST ADJUSTMENTS

A. GENERAL EDUCATION; modifying funding for general education, enrollment options transportation, abatement revenue, consolidation transition, nonpublic pupil education aid and transportation

B. EDUCATION EXCELLENCE; modifying funding for charter school building lease and startup aid, integration aid, interdistrict desegregation or integration transportation grants and tribal contract schools

C. SPECIAL EDUCATION; modifying funding for aid for children with disabilities and travel for home based services

D. FACILITIES; modifying funding for health and safety revenue and debt service equalization

E. NUTRITION; modifying funding for traditional school breakfast and kindergarten milk

F. EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION; modifying funding for school readiness, early childhood family education (ECFE) aid, health and developmental screening aid, early childhood Part C

G. PREVENTION; modifying funding for community education aid and school age care revenue

H. SELF-SUFFICIENCY AND LIFELONG LEARNING; modifying funding for adult basic education aid

ARTICLE 12 - TECHNICAL AND CONFORMING AMENDMENTS

Making technical and conforming amendments to statutory provisions relating to education and libraries; repealing secondary vocational cooperative revenue eligibility
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