1E Providing for education policy and technical modifications

ARTICLE 1 - GENERAL EDUCATION

Clarifying district transportation requirements for a child with a disability to an early care and education program; allowing a foster home student to return to the school last attended without the approval needed under the enrollment options program

ARTICLE 2 - EDUCATION EXCELLENCE

Modifying educational data requirements as part of participation in the statewide longitudinal education data system (SLEDS) on remedial instruction, establishing a review cycle for the academic standards and related benchmarks; modifying elective standards and further recognizing students' proficiency in languages in addition to English; modifying area learning center provisions; modifying certain enrollment options program provisions; removing a certain requirement for nonresident district application and procedures; changing desegregation to achievement and integration; requiring school district lotteries for available seats placement and allowing sibling priority; excluding special education services from decision basis standards for application acceptance or rejection; expanding the use of career and technical education revenue for equipment purchases; requiring certain additional information in the annual report from the Minnesota P-20 education partnership report; directing the Minnesota state colleges and universities (MnSCU) chancellor to review the specific competencies a kindergarten through grade 12 student masters in attaining a bilingual seal, multilingual seal, world language proficiency certificate, or world language proficiency high achievement certificate and determine the course and credit equivalencies for each certificate or seal; repealing certain provisions relating to student academic achievement and growth improving schools reporting and reserved revenue requirement for career teacher staff development

ARTICLE 3 - SPECIAL PROGRAMS

Removing certain obsolete language and updating certain provisions relating to the state interagency committee, interagency early intervention committees, school and county board responsibilities for coordinating services for eligible children ages 3 to 21, special instruction for children with a disability, individualized education programs, community transition interagency committee, interagency early intervention committees, and cross-subsidy annual reporting; directing the commissioner of education to use the expedited rulemaking process to make the rule changes recommended by the Special Education Case Load and Rule Alignment Task Force in its February 2014 report; repealing certain obsolete language

ARTICLE 4 - NUTRITION

Conforming school district food service accounting requirements; authorizing participants in any federal child nutrition program to donate unused food to qualifying food shelf programs

ARTICLE 5 - EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION, SELF-SUFFICIENCY, AND LIFELONG LEARNING

Clarifying funding for alternative programs; expanding early learning scholarship family eligibility; and establishing a due date for an evaluation report of the early learning scholarships

ARTICLE 6 - LIBRARIES

Allowing the commissioner to grant exceptions to the minimum open hours requirement of regional public library systems under certain conditions

ARTICLE 7 - ENGLISH LEARNERS

Modifying education provisions to enhance and further English learning for English learner (EL) students; requiring teachers to have English language development and content instruction for EL students; requiring renewing licensed teachers to have further English language development preparation; requiring administrator, continuing education, and teacher candidate preparation programs to include instructions on meeting needs of EL students; requiring teacher candidate instruction in student native language use as a teaching resource; requiring license renewal to include varied needs of EL learners; requiring bilingual and English as a second language (ESL) teachers to include certain instruction for EL students; requiring school readiness, student measurements, and adult basic education to include English literacy, language skills, and English language proficiency and development; repealing a bilingual and English as a second language (ES) teacher employment provision

ARTICLE 8 - INTERSTATE COMPACT ON EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY FOR MILITARY CHILDREN

"Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children"; providing for adoption of the compact; requiring a military-connected youth identifier and classifying data

ARTICLE 9 - UNSESSION CHANGES

Removing redundant, obsolete and superseded provisions; modifying certain provisions relating to the motorcycle safety education program and the state advisory council on early childhood education and care; specifying instructions to the revisor of statutes

ARTICLE 10 - UNSESSION CONFORMING CHANGES

Making certain conforming changes
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