Relating to education

ARTICLE 1 - GENERAL EDUCATION

Modifying the alternative teacher compensation revenue formula, charter school general education revenue formula, learning year program calendar options, area learning center (ALC) service requirements; 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; setting the limited English proficiency (LEP) allowance; modifying the average daily membership number of pupil units, learning year pupil units, basic revenue, extended time revenue, LEP concentration allowance, operating capital levy, transportation sparsity revenue allowance, equity revenue, district equity gap and index, transition revenue and equity allowance, basic alternative teacher compensation aid, charter school payments and certain abatement and aid adjustments; changing the treatment of referendum revenue levy; requiring certain county auditor reports to the commissioner of education; appropriating money to the commissioner 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, for Angle Inlet school and a compensatory revenue pilot project; repealing regional equity gap and equity region under general education revenue provisions

ARTICLE 2 - EDUCATION EXCELLENCE

Modifying academic and elective standards and graduation requirements; providing for academic rigor and postsecondary college and career opportunities, requiring dual credit course and program requirements, establishing and providing for 3R high school aid; adding international baccalaureate (IB) programs under raised academic achievement programs; establishing a new teacher induction program for certain newly licensed elementary and secondary teachers; requiring teacher centers to provide a professional development program; making technical changes; establishing the Minnesota reading corps program, alternative school calendar pilot program and a mandarin Chinese pilot program; providing for successful schools aid; appropriating money to the commissioner of education for charter school building lease, charter school startup and integration aid, magnet school, interdistrict desegregation or integration transportation and American Indian teacher preparation grants, success for the future, American Indian scholarships, early childhood programs at tribal schools, statewide testing and reporting system, examination fees, advanced placement and international baccalaureate (AP/IB) programs, first grade preparedness, collaborative urban educator, youth works, student organizations, education planning and assessment (EPAS), college level examination program (CLEP), best practices, 3R high schools, successful schools, alternative school calendar pilot program, Minnesota first five new teacher induction program, teacher training in mathematics and science instruction, mandarin Chinese and Minnesota reading corps

ARTICLE 3 - SPECIAL PROGRAMS

Modifying transportation aid entitlement; changing the term base revenue to initial aid; modifying definitions under access to transition system for children with disabilities; clarifying program aid and approval eligibility; modifying 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, providing for special education forecast maintenance of effort; appropriating money to the commissioner of education for special education, aid for children with disabilities, travel for home based services, excess costs, transition for disabled students, court placed special education revenue and out of state tuition; repealing the access to transition system for children with a disability

ARTICLE 4 - FACILITIES AND TECHNOLOGY

Modifying the definition of eligible debt service revenue; modifying health and safety revenue; excluding certain school district levies included in the debt service levy from tax exemption treatment under job opportunity building zone (JOBZ) property treatment; providing for school technology and online learning expansion grants; appropriating money to the commissioner of education for health and safety revenue, debt service equalization, alternative facilities bonding aid, equity in telecommunications access, school technology and online learning grants and deferred maintenance aid

ARTICLE 5 - NUTRITION AND ACCOUNTING

Defining budgets for purposes of financial information publication; requiring school boards to adopt a minimum percent of general operating expenditures to allocate to direct classroom expenditures; appropriating money to the commissioner of education for school lunch, traditional school breakfast, kindergarten milk and summer school service replacement aid

ARTICLE 6 - LIBRARIES

Requiring the commissioner of education to contract with an independent consultant for a comprehensive library structure study; appropriating money to the commissioner of education for basic system support, multicounty, multitype library systems, electronic library for Minnesota, regional library telecommunications aid and comprehensive library study contract

ARTICLE 7 - EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION

Clarifying the early childhood family education (ECFE) purpose; modifying program requirements, prohibiting participation restrictions by school districts; requiring a community outreach plan; requiring plan and program data submission requirements; modifying the ECFE levy, revenue use and home visiting levy eligibility; providing for targeted training of early childhood professional to improve school readiness; school readiness, head start and child care programs educational offerings improvement requirements; providing for an early childhood scholarship fund to improve school readiness; appropriating money to the commissioner of education for school readiness, ECFE and health and developmental screening aids, head start program, educate parents partnership, kindergarten entrance assessment initiative and intervention program, early childhood part C, ECFE program accountability initiative, targeted training of early childhood professionals, improve educational components in school readiness, head start and child care programs and early childhood scholarship program

ARTICLE 8 - PREVENTION

Appropriating money to the commissioner of education for community education and adults with disabilities program aids, hearing impaired adults and school age care revenue

ARTICLE 9 - SELF-SUFFICIENCY AND LIFELONG LEARNING

Providing for the Minnesota fatherhood leadership initiative; appropriating money to the commissioner of education for adult basic education aid, GED tests, lead hazard reduction, adult literacy grants for recent immigrants and Minnesota fatherhood leadership initiative programs

ARTICLE 10 - STATE AGENCIES

Modifying marriage license application depository requirements; authorizing commissioner of education career and technical education and statewide graduation tests rulemaking; appropriating money to the commissioner of education, the commissioner of public safety to fund parenting time centers, the Minnesota state academies for the deaf and blind and the Perpich center for arts education
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