Legislative Session number- 84

Bill Name: SF0907

Relating the early childhood education; establishing the Minnesota early
learning foundation as a public private partnership to identify cost effective
ways to deliver quality early care and education experiences and parent
education for families with children at risk of school unpreparedness; requiring
the partnership to develop infrastructure supports and accountability measures
to increase quality of early care and education settings and to build community
capacity for school readiness, requiring evaluation of the resulting benefits
and long term savings and the effectiveness of strategies for increasing
readiness for school at the kindergarten level; requiring and providing for
governance of the foundation by a board of public and private citizens,
requiring governor appointment of the public members; requiring a review and
planning advisory committee to provide knowledgeable counsel and advice to the
executive director and board for policies and procedures development purposes
and requiring review of cost effective strategies for strengthening early care
and education capabilities in the state, specifying certain committee membership
requirements; requiring the foundation to match appropriations from the state
with nonpublic money for the awarding of grants for certain pilot projects,
scholarships to low income families and strategies to improve early care and
education; appropriating money to the commissioner of education for the
foundation
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