3E Modifying policies for early childhood through grade 12 education

ARTICLE 1 - GENERAL EDUCATION

Clarifying and modifying minimal instructional days, postsecondary enrollment options (PSEO) pupil transportation options, expanding the definition of transportation services for pupils with disabilities; expanding the allowable uses of operating capital revenue; allowing school districts and cooperatives to allocate a maximum percentage of compensatory revenue for programs to prepare children and their families for kindergarten; authorizing school districts to use safe school revenue for collocating and collaborating with certain mental health professionals; increasing the safe schools levy authority

ARTICLE 2 - STUDENT ACCOUNTABILITY

Defining certain terms; modifying required academic standards, benchmark standards, graduation requirements, and credit equivalencies; expanding the guidance to gifted and talented student programs and requiring school districts to adopt procedures for early admission to kindergarten or first grade; specifying instructions to the revisor; repealing certain education rules

ARTICLE 3 - EDUCATION EXCELLENCE

Establishing certain requirements relating to the classroom placement of students based on teacher evaluation results; requiring school districts and charter schools to provide mental health instruction for students in grades 6-12; clarifying certain duties of school counselors; modifying certain teacher licensure renewal requirements relating to nonnative English speakers and the recognition of mental illness in children and adolescents; allowing a consortium of school districts to use a single application and evaluation process when applying for permission to enter into a flexible learning year program; requiring the commissioner of education to annually hold a field hearing on Indian education and specifying certain consultation requirements for the tribal nations education committee, requiring the commissioner to appoint an Indian education director; providing a statewide assessment and accountability transition; establishing a career and technical education advisory task force; establishing a teacher licensure advisory task force; requiring the commissioner of education to develop and submit recommendations for providing access to licensed student support services

ARTICLE 4 - CHARTER SCHOOLS

Modifying and clarifying certain charter school provisions relating to improving pupil learning and student achievement; modifying charter school lease provisions and nonrenewal or termination of a charter school contract; conforming certain habitual truant provisions

ARTICLE 5 - SPECIAL PROGRAMS

Providing for interagency coordinating council permanency, modifying certain definitions and provisions relating to restrictive procedures for children with disabilities; modifying membership and specifying certain reporting requirements; modifying certain definitions of the interagency early childhood intervention system; modifying and clarifying certain provisions relating to responsibilities of county and school boards, interagency early intervention committees, individualized family service plan (IFSP) and service coordination, early intervention account lead agency allocation of resources, payment for services and mediation procedures; authorizing the commissioner of education to amend rules relating to certain special education provisions; requiring the commissioner to collect information on the number of homeless children served; repealing a certain provision relating to early intervention service dollars expenditures and increases costs

ARTICLE 6 - FACILITIES AND TECHNOLOGY

Changing the name of the online learning advisory council to the online and digital learning advisory council; modifying council membership; authorizing council to provide the education department and legislature with certain input on digital learning matters; authorizing the commissioner of education to convene a working group to develop recommendations for reforming the financing of prekindergarten through grade 12 education facilities to create adequate, equitable and sustainable financing of public school facilities throughout the state

ARTICLE 7 - LIBRARIES

Authorizing the department of education to provide aid for public libraries;
providing a revisor of statutes instruction to change certain library terms

ARTICLE 8 - EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION, SELF-SUFFICIENCY, AND LIFELONG LEARNING

Requiring the commissioner of education to adopt rules for providing a standard adult high school diploma; clarifying a previous early childhood education scholarship appropriation provision to prohibit scholarships from counting as earned income for purposes of certain assistance programs; establishing a standard adult high school diploma advisory task force, specifying membership and duties, requiring report and specifying task force sunset
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