1.1 	A bill for an act
1.2 	relating to education; authorizing grants for collaborative urban educator 
1.3 	recruitment and training programs; appropriating money.
1.4 	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.5 	Section 1. COLLABORATIVE URBAN EDUCATOR RECRUITMENT AND 
1.6 	TRAINING PROGRAMS.
 1.7 	The following sums are appropriated from the general fund to the commissioner of 
1.8 	education in the fiscal years designated for grants to collaborative urban educator programs:

1.9		$
	1,400,000
	.....
	2016
	
1.10		$
	1,400,000
	.....
	2017
	
1.11 	$350,000 each year is for the Southeast Asian teacher program at Concordia 
1.12 	University, St. Paul; $350,000 each year is for the collaborative urban educator program 
1.13 	at the University of St. Thomas; $350,000 each year is for the Center for Excellence 
1.14 	in Urban Teaching at Hamline University; and $350,000 each year is for East African 
1.15 	Student to Teacher (EAST) program at Augsburg College.
1.16 	Any balance in the first year does not cancel but is available in the second year.
1.17 	Each institution shall prepare for the legislature, by January 15 of each year, a 
1.18 	detailed report regarding the funds used. The report must include the number of teachers 
1.19 	prepared as well as the diversity of each cohort of teachers produced.

1.20 	EFFECTIVE DATE. This section is effective July 1, 2015.