3E Relating to education

ARTICLE 1 - GENERAL EDUCATION

Clarifying the calculation made by the board of investment on the investment income earned by the permanent school fund by requiring interest earned to be counted prior to department of education transfer; creating the early graduation (high school, secondary) achievement scholarship program for a student qualifying for early graduation; modifying home school assessment of performance provisions, reports to superintendents, documentation availability, exemption, reports to the state, nonpublic schools materials and tests and health services requirements, driver instruction (learner) permit certification, and employment certificate issuance authority; specifying certain certification revoking offenses and unlawful violations for home school students with instruction permits; modifying pupil of limited English proficiency (LEP) formula; adjusting sparsity revenue eligibility criteria; setting the compensatory allowance and secondary, elementary, and transportation sparsity revenues; establishing sparsity revenue for independent school district #356, Lancaster as a result of a school closure in #2171, Kittson Central; expanding the authorized uses of general education revenue total operating capital revenue to include vehicle leasing; removing the safe schools levy set aside requirement for costs associated with licensed school counselors, psychologists, nurses and chemical dependency counselors; imposing a statewide school district and charter school employee salary freeze, specifying exceptions; repealing reserved revenue for staff development and school district contract deadline and penalty; adjusting the special education percentage eligibility requirement for a charter school to receive the accelerated payment shift; designating independent school district #118, Northland community schools as eligible for sparsity revenue; imposing a statewide school district and charter school employee salary freeze; requiring the commissioner of education to adjust each school district established tax rate and established equalizing factor by specified formulas; appropriating money to the department of education for general education aid, enrollment options transportation, abatement revenue, consolidation transition, nonpublic pupil education aid and transportation, Angle Inlet School in independent school district #690, the compensatory revenue pilot project, and teaching licensure by portfolio; repealing the staff development program, education code enforcement and prosecution, reserved revenue for staff development and school district contract deadline and penalty

ARTICLE 2 - EDUCATION EXCELLENCE

Providing for career and technical education academic credit requirement and prohibiting the commissioner from adopting common core standards; requiring board of teaching rules adoption requiring prospective teachers to pass certain skills examinations for board-approved teacher preparation program entrance and requiring successful remediation prior to preparation program entrance; requiring teacher candidates to pass a basic skills exam; requiring a certain percentage of a teaching salary to be based on student achievement; prescribing a procedure for a qualified economic offer by a school board in teacher contracts; establishing renewable five-year teacher contracts after probationary periods; modifying teacher contract termination, unrequested leave of absence, immediate discharge, hearing and determination by arbitrator, continued teacher employment after probation, decision, and services termination by lack of pupils procedures; authorizing and providing for a reading instruction stipend; authorizing school boards to create full-services school zones; modifying postsecondary enrollment options by allowing students in grades 9 and 10 (freshman and sophomores) to enroll in the program (college in the schools); modifying charter schools authorizer approval deadline; modifying building lease aid; enacting the "ServeMinnesota Innovation Act", establishing a ServeMinnesota Innovation program and providing grants and replacing the youthworks act; modifying the reading corps program and training and the levy formula for a school district with a career and technical program; providing literacy incentive aid and charter school start-up aid and specifying literacy incentive aid limit and literacy transition revenue sources; appropriating money to the department of education for charter school building lease, charter school start-up, literacy transition, literacy incentive, and tribal contract school aid, for reading instruction stipend, for interdistrict desegregation or integration transportation, success for the future, and American Indian teacher preparation grants, for early childhood family education (ECFE) programs at tribal schools, for statewide testing and reporting system, examination fees, student organizations, and for teacher training and support, concurrrent enrollment, collaborative urban educator, ServeMinnesota, early childhood literacy, and educational planning and assessment system (EPAS) programs; repealing charter school start-up costs revenue, certain employment-related education definitions, integration revenue, interdistrict desegregation or integration transportation aid, magnet school and program grants, metropolitan magnet school grants, office of desegregation/integration, desegregation/integration and inclusive education rule, and certain rules

ARTICLE 3 - SPECIAL PROGRAMS

Modifying special education revenue and excess cost aid program growth factor formulas; appropriating money to the department of education for special education regular, excess costs, and out-of-state tuition, aid for children with disabilities, travel for home-based services, and for court-placed special education revenue

ARTICLE 4 - FACILITIES AND TECHNOLOGY

Specifying the debt service appropriation for 2014 and 2015; streamlining the health and safety revenue program; modifying capital project referendum ballot language in cases where the same level of taxing authority is renewed, requiring and specifying certain language and conditions; modifying school lease levy authority by allowing lease agreements in place of lease purchase agreements to finance
improvements; authorizing independent school district #284, Wayzata, to participate in the alternative facilities revenue program; declaring a health and safety policy for school boards; appropriating money to the department of education for health and safety revenue, debt service equalization, equity in telecommunications access, and for alternative facilities bonding and deferred maintenance aid

ARTICLE 5 - NUTRITION AND ACCOUNTING

Modifying the school district levy recognition, an aid payment, capital account transfers; authorizing the interest on delayed school district payments to be paid by a certain date, authorizing fund transfers for independent school districts #726, Becker; #879, Delano; #728, Elk River; #837, Madelia; #882, Monticello and #742, St. Cloud; appropriating money to the department of education for school lunch, school breakfast, kindergarten milk, and summer school service replacement aid

ARTICLE 6 - LIBRARIES

Modifying the funding process for libraries supported by school districts
appropriating money to the department of education for basic system support, multicounty and multitype library systems, electronic library for Minnesota, and regional library telecommunications aid

ARTICLE 7 - EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION

Specifying appropriations to school readiness outcome investment programs meeting certain qualifications; appropriating money to the department of education for school readiness, early childhood family education aid (ECFE), health and developmental screening aid, head start program, educate parents partnership, kindergarten entrance assessment initiative and intervention

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 revenue

ARTICLE 9 - SELF-SUFFICIENCY AND LIFELONG LEARNING

Modifying state total adult basic education aid and removing obsolete dates; appropriating money to the department of education for adult basic education aid and GED tests

ARTICLE 10 - STATE AGENCIES

Providing for a trial placement for certain students at the Minnesota Academy for the Deaf and the Minnesota Academy for the Blind; appropriating money to the department of education, the Minnesota State Academies, and the Perpich Center for Arts Education

ARTICLE 11 - FORECAST ADJUSTMENTS

Updating certain prior education appropriations for 2011 to reflect the February forecast; modifying aids for general education, enrollment options transportation, abatement revenue, consolidation transition, nonpublic pupil education and transportation, charter school building lease and startup, integration, interdistrict desegregation or integration transportation grants, tribal contract school, children with disabilities, teacher travel for home-based services, deferred maintenance, school lunch, breakfast, and kindergarten milk, early childhood family education, health and developmental screening, community education, and adult basic education
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