Legislative Session number- 86

Bill Name: SF0836

Relating to education

ARTICLE 1 - GENERAL EDUCATION

Specifying required
hours of instruction for kindergarten through grade 12 students; requiring
school district educational improvement plans to qualify for the alternative
teacher professional pay system and requiring instructional leadership as a plan
component, requiring all districts and charter schools to have educational
improvement plans and alternative teacher professional pay system agreements,
allowing the commissioner of education to establish application submission
deadlines, establishing the quality compensation advisory council and providing
for membership and terms, modifying the teacher alternative compensation revenue
formula and basic alternative teacher compensation aid; modifying school
district levy revenue recognition; excluding pay for progress revenue as part of
charter school general education revenue, special education revenue, initial
aid, excess cost aid, and out-of-state tuition, including pay for progress
revenue as part of school district education funding general education revenue;
modifying extended time revenue; providing pay for progress revenue for school
districts and charter schools participating in the student growth model
established by the commissioner of education; requiring the commissioner of
education to reduce the state aid paid to school districts and charter schools
not providing the required hours of instruction, specifying reduction formula;
modifying the current year school district aid payment; providing an advance
final payment for districts and charter schools exceeding expenditure
limitations and specifying a limit; making technical changes; appropriating
money to the department of education for general education aid, enrollment
options transportation, abatement revenue, consolidation transition, nonpublic
pupil education aid and transportation, one-room schoolhouse, independent school
districts #239, Rushford-Peterson and #356, Lancaster and for the compensatory
revenue pilot project program; repealing alternative teacher pay transitional
planning year and planning and staff development and school district contract
deadline and penalty

ARTICLE 2 - EDUCATION EXCELLENCE

Modifying statewide
mathematics assessments administered by the commissioner of education; modifying
graduation requirements by requiring a minimum online course or online learning
experience meeting college and career standards; establishing a Minnesota
virtual education program for teachers and students to improve and enhance
teacher instruction and student learning through integration of technology and
online learning, requiring commissioner of education establishment; modifying
the statewide testing and reporting system requirements and the value-added
assessment program; requiring school boards and district exclusive teacher
representatives to develop an annual review process and evaluation for
continuing contract teachers and permitting peer review; establishing the state
of Minnesota midcareer alternative route to teaching (SMART) program as an
alternative to postsecondary teacher preparation programs; modifying integration
revenue and specifying eligibility; establishing the summer of success program
to provide intensive intervention to students not yet proficient on 8th grade
standardized mathematics and reading assessments; requiring a competitive grant
process open to the university of Minnesota (U of MN), Minnesota state colleges
and university (MnSCU) institutions and state private colleges to establish U
TEACH programs for math and science current students teacher program
recruitment; appropriating money to the department of education for charter
school building lease and startup aid, integration aid, magnet school grants,
interdistrict desegregation or integration transportation grants, success for
the future, American Indian (native American) teacher preparation grants, tribal
contract schools, early childhood programs at tribal schools, statewide testing
and reporting system, summer of success, examination fees and teacher training
and support programs, advanced placement, preadvanced placement and
international baccalaureate programs, collaborative urban educator, youth works
program, student organizations, education planning and assessment system (EPAS)
program, early childhood literacy programs, teacher centers, U TEACH, teacher
training programs, principals' leadership institute and Minnesota virtual
education; repealing alternative preparation licensing for teachers, teacher
centers policy board membership, powers and duties and concurrent enrollment
program aid

ARTICLE 3 - SPECIAL PROGRAMS

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

ARTICLE 4 - FACILITIES AND TECHNOLOGY

Qualifying intermediate
school districts and charter schools for telecommunications/internet access
equity aid and specifying requirements; 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 5 - NUTRITION AND ACCOUNTING

Appropriating money
to the department of education for school lunches, breakfasts, kindergarten milk
and summer school service replacement aid

ARTICLE 6 -
LIBRARIES

Appropriating money to the department of education for basic system
support, multicounty, multitype library systems, electronic library for
Minnesota and regional library telecommunications aid

ARTICLE 7 - EARLY
CHILDHOOD EDUCATION

Appropriating money to the department of education for
school readiness, early childhood family education (ECFE) aid, health and
developmental screening aid, the head start program, the educate parents
partnership and the kindergarten entrance assessment initiative and intervention
program

ARTICLE 8 - PREVENTION

Appropriating money to the department of
education for community education aid, adults with disabilities program aid,
hearing-impaired adults and school-age care revenue

ARTICLE 9 -
SELF-SUFFICIENCY AND LIFELONG LEARNING

Appropriating money to the department
of education for adult basic education aid and GED tests

ARTICLE 10 - STATE
AGENCIES

Requiring the board of teaching licensing rules to require skills
examination successful completion as a requirement for entrance into a
board-approved teacher preparation program; authorizing the Perpich center for
arts education to organize as a charter school, requiring a sponsor, specifying
state charter school aid eligibility and to include start-up and operating
costs, dissolving the Perpich center for arts education as a state agency,
providing for records transfer to department of education and department of
administration facility oversight, providing lease right of first refusal;
requiring the board of teaching to adopt rules requiring licensure candidates in
core content areas to evidence academic major equivalence in the core content
area for which application is made, requiring the board to revise standards of
effective practice for beginning teachers; appropriating money to the department
of education for the children's museum, academy of science, the board of
teaching, the department of education, board of school administrators, an early
hearing loss intervention coordinator, the Duluth children's museum, board
licensure by portfolio, the Minnesota state academies for the deaf and blind and
for the Perpich center for arts education; repealing Perpich center for arts
education, organizational provisions, board meetings, resource, magnet and
outreach programs, materials, training and assistance, comprehensive arts
training program, planning and program sites

ARTICLE 11 -
PELRA

Restricting teacher strike ability to binding arbitration or arbitrator
employer violation; establishing parameters for exclusive teacher
representatives and local school board negotiations, specifying binding
arbitration; repealing public employment labor relations (PELRA) new exclusive
representatives for teachers
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