1E Relating to education

ARTICLE 1 - GENERAL EDUCATION

Modifying kindergarten early admission policy requirements; specifying all day kindergarten calendar length of school year hours of instruction; modifying pupil accounting cross references; clarifying pupil counts for all day kindergarten; clarifying the inflation adjustment for nonpublic pupil aids; modifying pupil unit weights; modifying and expanding certain provisions relating to declining enrollment revenue, learning year pupil units all day kindergarten, general education revenue, basic revenue, extended time revenue, small schools revenue, basic supplemental revenue, safe school revenue, compensatory revenue, sparsity revenue, operating capital equity, transition calculations, alternative teach compensation, pension adjustment revenue, learning and development revenue, expanding general education and basic skills revenue usage, general education levy, general education revenue usage limitation, referendum revenue, compensatory supplemental formula aid, early graduation scholarships and military services awards, building lease levy, safe schools supplementary levy authority intermediate school districts, alternative attendance adjustments, general education aid for charter schools, statewide average revenue, Minneapolis and St. Paul districts board approved bonding authority, and school district levy adjustments; appropriating money to the department of education for general education aid, enrollment options transportation, abatement revenue, consolidation transition, nonpublic pupil education aid, nonpublic pupil transportation, the Angle Inlet school grant, compensatory pilot project formula aid grants, and compensatory revenue pilot program grants; repealing certain provisions relating to early graduation scholarships and military service awards, certain operating capital levy definitions, equity revenue and transition revenue formulas, referendum conversion allowance, alternative teacher compensation, and aid reduction for changes in employer retirement contribution rates

ARTICLE 2 - STUDENT ACCOUNTABILITY

Modifying and clarifying state graduation requirements and educational expectations; requiring school districts to assist students to explore college and career interests and develop a transition plan to postsecondary education or employment; modifying educational planning and assessment systems (EPAS) program requirements for students entering grade 8 through the 2013-2014 school year; modifying statewide testing; providing for a series of statewide assessments aligned with state academic standards and career and college readiness benchmarks, specifying commissioner of education requirements for computer-adaptive math and reading assessments, defining terms, modifying school performance report cards, and providing for statewide assessment and accountability transition; creating a career pathways advisory task force, specifying certain duties and membership requirements, sunset provision; appropriating money to the department of education for the statewide testing and reporting system; repealing certain rules relating to assessments

ARTICLE 3 - EDUCATION EXCELLENCE

Increasing the compulsory school attendance age to 17 years old; allowing certain eligible 16-year old students to be assigned to area learning centers; increasing the age for legal withdrawal from school to age 17; establishing a formula for basic alternative teacher compensation aid, levy and equalization aid; modifying state approved alternative program designations; establishing a math corps program; designating the career and technical levy a revenue program; making technical changes to school district English leaner (EL) programs revenue; establishing the achievement and integration for Minnesota program to increase student performance and equitable educational opportunities and prepare all students to be effective citizens, implementing integration revenue replacement advisory task force recommendations, repurposing integration revenue; modifying the definition of habitual truant; delaying the implementation date for the teacher evaluation system; appropriating money to the department of education for integration aid, literacy incentive 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, teacher training and support programs examination fees, concurrent enrollment programs, collaborative urban educator program, ServeMinnesota programs, student organizations, early childhood literacy programs, Minnesota math corps program, alternative teacher compensation aid, teacher development and evaluation pilot grant program, and career and technical aid

ARTICLE 4 - CHARTER SCHOOLS

Expanding charter school authorizer annual public reporting requirements; allowing a school district to lease a building to an authorized charter school; conforming charter school general education revenue for changes to general education revenue and pupil weights; increasing the maximum amount of building lease aid and modifying the lease aid formula for certain schools; appropriating money to the department of education for charter school building lease aid

ARTICLE 5 - SPECIAL PROGRAMS

Making certain conforming and technical changes in special education aid calculations, general education revenue definitions, and general education revenue calculations; specifying the state total special education aid for 2013-2017; 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; repealing access to the transition system for children with a disability initial aid, exclusion, and revenue allocation from cooperative centers and intermediate districts, and special education revenue allocation from cooperative centers and intermediates

ARTICLE 6 - FACILITIES AND TECHNOLOGY

Making certain adjustments for changes in pupil weights; authorizing independent school district #2904, Tracy to use expired disabled access levy authority; authorizing an elevator repair levy for independent school district #2527, Norman County West; appropriating money to the department of education for health and safety revenue, debt service equalization, alternative facilities bonding aid, equity in telecommunications access, and deferred maintenance aid

ARTICLE 7 - NUTRITION, LIBRARIES, AND ACCOUNTING

Expanding and updating school district levy recognition references; increasing the state payment participants for school lunch aid; prohibiting participating schools from denying a lunch to children qualifying for reduced price meals or notice of inability to pay; modifying the method for disbursement of summer food service replacement aid; specifying the aid payment percentage to school districts; providing for the facilitation of independent school districts #611, Cyrus and #769, Morris consolidation; authorizing independent school district #611, Cyrus to sell general obligation bonds without election; exempting Independent school district #402, Hendricks from the general tuition reciprocity agreement; appropriating money to the department of education for school lunch and breakfast, kindergarten milk, and summer school service replacement aid, basic system support grants, multicounty, multitype library systems, electronic library, and regional telecommunications aid

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

Establishing an early learning scholarship program; prescribing certain duties of the office of early learning, defining terms; specifying participant eligibility; specifying amounts of and the process of awarding scholarships, scholarship recipients choice of programs, building quality and payment to the fiscal agent; specifying that scholarships not be counted as earned income; specifying program providers do not disclose student's identification number; report requirement; classifying program data; increasing the state total adult basic education aid program growth factor percentage; allowing the director to establish an expedited process to award scholarships for fiscal year 2014;appropriating money to the department of education for school readiness, early childhood family education aid, early childhood education scholarships, parent child home program grant, health and developmental screening aid, head start program, education parents partnership, kindergarten entrance assessment initiative and intervention program, community education aid, adults with disabilities program aid, hearing impaired adults programs, school age care revenue, adult basic education aid, and GED tests costs

ARTICLE 9 - STATE AGENCIES

Appropriating money to the department of education for the Minnesota children?s museum, Minnesota academy of science, Duluth children?s museum, board of teaching, board of school administrators, office of enterprise technology, school finance division, Northeast service cooperative, school districts antibullying policy, Minnesota humanities commission, governor?s office, certain departmental costs, and appropriating money to the department of teaching for licensure by portfolio, to the Minnesota state academies for the deaf and the blind, and to the Perpich center for arts education

ARTICLE 10 - FORECAST ADJUSTMENTS

Adjusting general education aid, enrollment options transportation, abatement revenue, consolidation transition, nonpublic pupil education aid, nonpublic pupil transportation, compensatory pilot project formula aid, charter school building lease aid, charter school start-up aid, integration aid, literacy incentive aid, interdistrict desegregation or integration transportation grants, success for the future grants, tribal contract schools aid, regular special education aid, aid for children with disabilities, travel for home-based services, excess costs special education, health and safety revenue, debt service equalization, alternative facilities bonding aid, deferred maintenance aid, school lunch aid, school breakfast aid, kindergarten milk aid, basic system support grants, multicounty, multitype library systems grants, regional library telecommunications aid, school readiness programs, early childhood family education aid, health and developmental screening aid, community education aid, adults with disabilities program aid, and adult basic education aid
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