Relating to education; creating a quality rating and improvement system to
ensure children have access to high quality early learning and care programs in
a range of settings to meet the needs of children and families; requiring commissioners of human services (DHS) and education to continue prekindergarten exploratory projects located in St. Paul and Hennepin and Blue Earth counties conducted in partnership with the Minnesota early learning foundation to promote school readiness, requiring the commissioners after a certain date to establish additional prekindergarten projects in Anoka, Olmsted, Otter Tail, St. Louis, Benton, Stearns and Sherburne counties, specifying allowance eligibility, quality standards and application, allowing the departments to waive the one year limit for allowance spending, extending a previous appropriation; appropriating money to the department of education for prekindergarten exploratory projects for St. Paul, Hennepin, Blue Earth, Anoka, Olmsted, Otter Tail, St. Louis, Benton, Stearns and Sherburne counties
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