Relating to education; providing for tiered teacher and principal licensure process; establishing alternative teacher preparation programs and initial license authorization; establishing factors determining issuing contracts to and the mentoring process for probationary teachers; establishing the teacher continuing tenure program; specifying districts role in providing support for teachers' professional growth; establishing Minnesota teacher and principal evaluation systems; authorizing the commissioner of education to directly intervene in certain school districts and charter schools; instructing the board of teaching to issue a report on the effectiveness of the alternative teacher preparation program; authorizing the commissioner of education to have certain rulemaking authority
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