Relating to education

ARTICLE 1 - GENERAL EDUCATION

Modifying pupil of limited English proficiency (LEP) and the general education revenue formula; defining all-day kindergarten revenue and specifying optional participation; 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 (ISD) #690, the compensatory revenue pilot project, and teaching licensure by portfolio

ARTICLE 2 - EDUCATION EXCELLENCE

Modifying reading intervention, the educational planning and assessment system (EPAS) program, alternative compensation revenue, and building lease aid; establishing the governor's award for excellence in education, the achievement gap innovation fund; specifying ineligibility for charter school start-up aid for schools in first year of operation; appropriating money to the department of education for charter school building lease and startup aid, integration aid, interdistrict desegregation or integration transportation grants, success for the future, American Indian teacher preparation grants, tribal contract schools, early childhood programs at tribal schools, the statewide testing and reporting system, examination fees for teacher training and support programs for advanced placement (AP) and international baccalaureate (IB), concurrent enrollment programs, collaborative urban educator, youth works program, student organizations, early childhood literacy programs, governor's excellence in education award, and governor's achievement gap innovation fund; repealing charter school revenue for start-up costs, magnet school and program grants, and metropolitan magnet school grants

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

Appropriating money 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

Modifying the school district levy recognition, adjustments, and aid payments; specifying a levy aid recognition time frame; appropriating money to the department of education for school lunch, school breakfast, kindergarten milk, and summer school service replacement aid

ARTICLE 6 - LIBRARIES

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

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, and quality rating and improvement system

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

ARTICLE 10 - STATE AGENCIES

Modifying admissions for the Minnesota State Academies for the deaf and blind; appropriating money to the department of education, the Minnesota State Academies, and the Perpich Center for Arts Education
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