Legislative Session number- 84

Bill Name: SF0877

1E Establishing a Minnesota humanities commission to establish a humanities
center to ensure balance in public education and in the cultural life of the
state and to improve humanities education through the establishment of the
Minnesota institutes for lifelong learning and for the advancement of teaching;
authorizing the center to transport people and resources to small towns, rural
communities and urban settings to provide grants, technical assistance and high
quality educational and cultural programs to schools and community organizations
throughout the state; authorizing the institute for the advancement of teaching
to conduct seminars and other activities for the recognition of the teaching
profession and the advancement of teaching; requiring annual commission reports
to the legislature on the use of state funds appropriated to the commission,
specifying certain report content requirements; establishing the position of
state poet laureate, requiring the Minnesota humanities commissioin to solicit
nominations and make recommendations for appointment by the governor, requiring
expenses of the poet laureate to be paid from nonstate sources
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(Ch.
108, 2005 - VETO)