Legislative Session number- 87

Bill Name: SF1030

3E Relating to education

ARTICLE 1 - GENERAL EDUCATION

Clarifying the
calculation made by the board of investment on the investment income earned by
the permanent school fund by requiring interest earned to be counted prior to
department of education transfer; creating the early graduation (high school,
secondary) achievement scholarship program for a student qualifying for early
graduation; modifying home school assessment of performance provisions, reports
to superintendents, documentation availability, exemption, reports to the state,
nonpublic schools materials and tests and health services requirements, driver
instruction (learner) permit certification, and employment certificate issuance
authority; specifying certain certification revoking offenses and unlawful
violations for home school students with instruction permits; modifying pupil of
limited English proficiency (LEP) formula; adjusting sparsity revenue
eligibility criteria; setting the compensatory allowance and secondary,
elementary, and transportation sparsity revenues; establishing sparsity revenue
for independent school district #356, Lancaster as a result of a school closure
in #2171, Kittson Central; expanding the authorized uses of general education
revenue total operating capital revenue to include vehicle leasing; removing the
safe schools levy set aside requirement for costs associated with licensed
school counselors, psychologists, nurses and chemical dependency counselors;
imposing a statewide school district and charter school employee salary freeze,
specifying exceptions; repealing reserved revenue for staff development and
school district contract deadline and penalty; adjusting the special education
percentage eligibility requirement for a charter school to receive the
accelerated payment shift; designating independent school district #118,
Northland community schools as eligible for sparsity revenue; imposing a
statewide school district and charter school employee salary freeze; requiring
the commissioner of education to adjust each school district established tax
rate and established equalizing factor by specified formulas; appropriating
money to the department of education for general education aid, enrollment
options transportation, abatement revenue, consolidation transition, nonpublic
pupil education aid and transportation, Angle Inlet School in independent school
district #690, the compensatory revenue pilot project, and teaching licensure by
portfolio; repealing the staff development program, education code enforcement
and prosecution, reserved revenue for staff development and school district
contract deadline and penalty

ARTICLE 2 - EDUCATION EXCELLENCE

Providing
for career and technical education academic credit requirement and prohibiting
the commissioner from adopting common core standards; requiring board of
teaching rules adoption requiring prospective teachers to pass certain skills
examinations for board-approved teacher preparation program entrance and
requiring successful remediation prior to preparation program entrance;
requiring teacher candidates to pass a basic skills exam; requiring a certain
percentage of a teaching salary to be based on student achievement; prescribing
a procedure for a qualified economic offer by a school board in teacher
contracts; establishing renewable five-year teacher contracts after probationary
periods; modifying teacher contract termination, unrequested leave of absence,
immediate discharge, hearing and determination by arbitrator, continued teacher
employment after probation, decision, and services termination by lack of pupils
procedures; authorizing and providing for a reading instruction stipend;
authorizing school boards to create full-services school zones; modifying
postsecondary enrollment options by allowing students in grades 9 and 10
(freshman and sophomores) to enroll in the program (college in the schools);
modifying charter schools authorizer approval deadline; modifying building lease
aid; enacting the "ServeMinnesota Innovation Act", establishing a ServeMinnesota
Innovation program and providing grants and replacing the youthworks act;
modifying the reading corps program and training and the levy formula for a
school district with a career and technical program; providing literacy
incentive aid and charter school start-up aid and specifying literacy incentive
aid limit and literacy transition revenue sources; appropriating money to the
department of education for charter school building lease, charter school
start-up, literacy transition, literacy incentive, and tribal contract school
aid, for reading instruction stipend, for interdistrict desegregation or
integration transportation, success for the future, and American Indian teacher
preparation grants, for early childhood family education (ECFE) programs at
tribal schools, for statewide testing and reporting system, examination fees,
student organizations, and for teacher training and support, concurrrent
enrollment, collaborative urban educator, ServeMinnesota, early childhood
literacy, and educational planning and assessment system (EPAS) programs;
repealing charter school start-up costs revenue, certain employment-related
education definitions, integration revenue, interdistrict desegregation or
integration transportation aid, magnet school and program grants, metropolitan
magnet school grants, office of desegregation/integration,
desegregation/integration and inclusive education rule, and certain
rules

ARTICLE 3 - SPECIAL PROGRAMS

Modifying special education revenue and
excess cost aid program growth factor formulas; appropriating money to the
department of education for special education regular, excess costs, and
out-of-state tuition, aid for children with disabilities, travel for home-based
services, and for court-placed special education revenue

ARTICLE 4 -
FACILITIES AND TECHNOLOGY

Specifying the debt service appropriation for 2014
and 2015; streamlining the health and safety revenue program; modifying capital
project referendum ballot language in cases where the same level of taxing
authority is renewed, requiring and specifying certain language and conditions;
modifying school lease levy authority by allowing lease agreements in place of
lease purchase agreements to finance
improvements; authorizing independent
school district #284, Wayzata, to participate in the alternative facilities
revenue program; declaring a health and safety policy for school boards;
appropriating money to the department of education for health and safety
revenue, debt service equalization, equity in telecommunications access, and for
alternative facilities bonding and deferred maintenance aid

ARTICLE 5 -
NUTRITION AND ACCOUNTING

Modifying the school district levy recognition, an
aid payment, capital account transfers; authorizing the interest on delayed
school district payments to be paid by a certain date, authorizing fund
transfers for independent school districts #726, Becker; #879, Delano; #728, Elk
River; #837, Madelia; #882, Monticello and #742, St. Cloud; appropriating money
to the department of education for school lunch, school breakfast, kindergarten
milk, and summer school service replacement aid

ARTICLE 6 -
LIBRARIES

Modifying the funding process for libraries supported by school
districts
appropriating money to the department of education for basic system
support, multicounty and multitype library systems, electronic library for
Minnesota, and regional library telecommunications aid

ARTICLE 7 - EARLY
CHILDHOOD EDUCATION

Specifying appropriations to school readiness outcome
investment programs meeting certain qualifications; appropriating money to the
department of education for school readiness, early childhood family education
aid (ECFE), health and developmental screening aid, head start program, educate
parents partnership, kindergarten entrance assessment initiative and
intervention

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 revenue

ARTICLE 9 - SELF-SUFFICIENCY
AND LIFELONG LEARNING

Modifying state total adult basic education aid and
removing obsolete dates; appropriating money to the department of education for
adult basic education aid and GED tests

ARTICLE 10 - STATE
AGENCIES

Providing for a trial placement for certain students at the
Minnesota Academy for the Deaf and the Minnesota Academy for the Blind;
appropriating money to the department of education, the Minnesota State
Academies, and the Perpich Center for Arts Education

ARTICLE 11 - FORECAST
ADJUSTMENTS

Updating certain prior education appropriations for 2011 to
reflect the February forecast; modifying aids for general education, enrollment
options transportation, abatement revenue, consolidation transition, nonpublic
pupil education and transportation, charter school building lease and startup,
integration, interdistrict desegregation or integration transportation grants,
tribal contract school, children with disabilities, teacher travel for
home-based services, deferred maintenance, school lunch, breakfast, and
kindergarten milk, early childhood family education, health and developmental
screening, community education, and adult basic education
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