Relating to education

ARTICLE 1 - GENERAL EDUCATION

Specifying required hours of instruction for kindergarten through grade 12 students; requiring school district educational improvement plans to qualify for the alternative teacher professional pay system and requiring instructional leadership as a plan component, requiring all districts and charter schools to have educational improvement plans and alternative teacher professional pay system agreements, allowing the commissioner of education to establish application submission deadlines, establishing the quality compensation advisory council and providing for membership and terms, modifying the teacher alternative compensation revenue formula and basic alternative teacher compensation aid; modifying school district levy revenue recognition; excluding pay for progress revenue as part of charter school general education revenue, special education revenue, initial aid, excess cost aid, and out-of-state tuition, including pay for progress revenue as part of school district education funding general education revenue; modifying extended time revenue; providing pay for progress revenue for school districts and charter schools participating in the student growth model established by the commissioner of education; requiring the commissioner of education to reduce the state aid paid to school districts and charter schools not providing the required hours of instruction, specifying reduction formula; modifying the current year school district aid payment; providing an advance final payment for districts and charter schools exceeding expenditure limitations and specifying a limit; making technical changes; appropriating money to the department of education for general education aid, enrollment options transportation, abatement revenue, consolidation transition, nonpublic pupil education aid and transportation, one-room schoolhouse, independent school districts #239, Rushford-Peterson and #356, Lancaster and for the compensatory revenue pilot project program; repealing alternative teacher pay transitional planning year and planning and staff development and school district contract deadline and penalty

ARTICLE 2 - EDUCATION EXCELLENCE

Modifying statewide mathematics assessments administered by the commissioner of education; modifying graduation requirements by requiring a minimum online course or online learning experience meeting college and career standards; establishing a Minnesota virtual education program for teachers and students to improve and enhance teacher instruction and student learning through integration of technology and online learning, requiring commissioner of education establishment; modifying the statewide testing and reporting system requirements and the value-added assessment program; requiring school boards and district exclusive teacher representatives to develop an annual review process and evaluation for continuing contract teachers and permitting peer review; establishing the state of Minnesota midcareer alternative route to teaching (SMART) program as an alternative to postsecondary teacher preparation programs; modifying integration revenue and specifying eligibility; establishing the summer of success program to provide intensive intervention to students not yet proficient on 8th grade standardized mathematics and reading assessments; requiring a competitive grant process open to the university of Minnesota (U of MN), Minnesota state colleges and university (MnSCU) institutions and state private colleges to establish U TEACH programs for math and science current students teacher program recruitment; appropriating money to the department of education for charter school building lease and startup aid, integration aid, magnet school grants, interdistrict desegregation or integration transportation grants, success for the future, American Indian (native American) teacher preparation grants, tribal contract schools, early childhood programs at tribal schools, statewide testing and reporting system, summer of success, examination fees and teacher training and support programs, advanced placement, preadvanced placement and international baccalaureate programs, collaborative urban educator, youth works program, student organizations, education planning and assessment system (EPAS) program, early childhood literacy programs, teacher centers, U TEACH, teacher training programs, principals' leadership institute and Minnesota virtual education; repealing alternative preparation licensing for teachers, teacher centers policy board membership, powers and duties and concurrent enrollment program aid

ARTICLE 3 - SPECIAL PROGRAMS

Appropriating money to the department of education for regular special education, aid for children with disabilities, travel for home-based services, special education excess costs, court-placed special education revenue and special education out-of-state tuition

ARTICLE 4 - FACILITIES AND TECHNOLOGY

Qualifying intermediate school districts and charter schools for telecommunications/internet access equity aid and specifying requirements; appropriating money to the department of education for health and safety revenue, debt service equalization, alternative facilities bonding aid, equity in telecommunications access, and deferred maintenance aid

ARTICLE 5 - NUTRITION AND ACCOUNTING

Appropriating money to the department of education for school lunches, breakfasts, kindergarten milk and summer school service replacement aid

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

Appropriating money to the department of education for school readiness, early childhood family education (ECFE) aid, health and developmental screening aid, the head start program, the educate parents partnership and the kindergarten entrance 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 revenue

ARTICLE 9 - SELF-SUFFICIENCY AND LIFELONG LEARNING

Appropriating money to the department of education for adult basic education aid and GED tests

ARTICLE 10 - STATE AGENCIES

Requiring the board of teaching licensing rules to require skills examination successful completion as a requirement for entrance into a board-approved teacher preparation program; authorizing the Perpich center for arts education to organize as a charter school, requiring a sponsor, specifying state charter school aid eligibility and to include start-up and operating costs, dissolving the Perpich center for arts education as a state agency, providing for records transfer to department of education and department of administration facility oversight, providing lease right of first refusal; requiring the board of teaching to adopt rules requiring licensure candidates in core content areas to evidence academic major equivalence in the core content area for which application is made, requiring the board to revise standards of effective practice for beginning teachers; appropriating money to the department of education for the children's museum, academy of science, the board of teaching, the department of education, board of school administrators, an early hearing loss intervention coordinator, the Duluth children's museum, board licensure by portfolio, the Minnesota state academies for the deaf and blind and for the Perpich center for arts education; repealing Perpich center for arts education, organizational provisions, board meetings, resource, magnet and outreach programs, materials, training and assistance, comprehensive arts training program, planning and program sites

ARTICLE 11 - PELRA

Restricting teacher strike ability to binding arbitration or arbitrator employer violation; establishing parameters for exclusive teacher representatives and local school board negotiations, specifying binding arbitration; repealing public employment labor relations (PELRA) new exclusive representatives for teachers
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