2E Providing for general education, education excellence, special education, and other programs

ARTICLE 1 - GENERAL EDUCATION

Specifying serving district responsibility and conditions for transporting a homeless pupil to and from the pupils residence; limiting the age of children for home school assessment of performance requirements; expanding nonpublic school reporting requirements to superintendent; modifying certain education finance provisions relating to early graduation, the early graduation scholarship program, and the early graduation military service award program; modifying revenue timing requirements; expanding transportation aid entitlement for homeless nonresident pupils; authorizing continued enrollment for homeless students in a nonresident district; expanding the postsecondary enrollment options (PSEO) program; allowing a charter school to generate shared time aid revenue for home school students; modifying reallocation of general education revenue for all-day kindergarten and prekindergarten; clarifying shared time aid for nonpublic school students and eliminating the veto over shared time participation by resident districts; adjusting the special education pupil count eligibility requirement for a charter school to receive the accelerated aid payment shift; requiring general education revenue to a resident district for a homeless child enrolled in a school other than an independent or special school district or charter school; providing PSEO appropriation adjustments; revisor instruction; repealing a certain homeless pupil revenue reporting provision and a PSEO intermediate schools exception

ARTICLE 2 - EDUCATION EXCELLENCE

Making adjustments to graduation standards; modifying the date for districts to submit local reading assessments results; modifying certain statewide testing requirements for math for the 2012-2013 and 2013-14 school years only; modifying the month by which a school board must notify a probationary teachers about contract nonrenewal; prohibiting public school employees from using public funds and resources to advocate to pass, elect, or defeat a political candidate, ballot question, or pending legislation; clarifying terms for an education site achievement contract focused on individual learning goals for each student, directing districts with successful contracts to enter into similar achievement contracts with other school sites; modifying certain principal evaluation provisions; expanding PSEO transportation aid entitlement for a parent or guardian of an alternative pupil; modifying certain charter schools provisions relating to charter school authorizers duties and responsibilities, formation of school, written charter contracts, performance evaluations, pupil performance, employment and contracts, length of school year, annual public reporting requirements, and insurance policy submittal requirements, specifying certain affiliated nonprofit building corporation compliance requirements, and allowing collaboration between charter school and school district to enhance student achievement; adjusting the cap on the career and technical levy; adjusting the formula for proficiency aid and growth aid; permitting alternative uses of the building lease levy for school districts that are members of the St. Croix River education district; authorizing a lease levy for administrative space for independent school district #656, Faribault and independent school district #284, Wayzata; repealing certain obsolete provisions and making certain conforming amendments

ARTICLE 3 - SPECIAL EDUCATION AND OTHER PROGRAMS

Modifying certain special education extended year requirements and certain nonresident education billing requirements; defining on-site education program for school districts with care and treatment facilities; modifying certain bonding election timing provisions for school districts; expanding the use of a prior appropriation for a grant to evidence-based early literacy parent-child home program; repealing certain provisions relating to placement in state institution responsibility, uniform billing system for the education costs of out-of-home placed students, and certain school districts limit on net debt
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