Legislative Session number- 84

Bill Name: SF1148

1E Modifying certain education programs and services policy provisions


ARTICLE 1 - EDUCATION EXCELLENCE

Providing for parental discretion in
classroom placement of multiples; expanding required academic standards to
physical and health education; providing for waiver of certain academic
standards for students participating in certain rigorous courses of study;
modifying high school level mathematics course requirements, specifying the
number of required course credits for physical and health education and reducing
the number of elective course credits required for graduation; clarifying
certain school board instruction and curriculum policy adoption requirements and
authorizing web site publication of annual student achievement reports;
expanding certain fee or subsidy payment requirements for advanced placement
(AP) and international baccalaureate (IB) programs; regulating and providing for
student participation in gifted and talented programs; providing for instruction
on documents relating to American heritage; modifying statewide testing
requirements for students in grade 8; providing for parental access to statewide
tests and assessments; requiring and providing for the commissioner of education
to implement a value added assessment program to assist school districts and
schools in assessing and reporting growth in student academic achievement and to
award grants to public school sites to increase student achievement and
eliminate the achievement gap; requiring school district electronic reporting of
dangerous weapons incidents and student exclusions and expulsions; requiring
school board policies prohibiting intimidation and bullying; authorizing
secondary students to possess and use nonprescription pain relievers under
certain conditions; providing for comprehensive family life and sexuality
education programs; modifying certain teacher preparation reading instruction
requirements for licensing purposes; providing for consecutive teaching
experience for probationary teachers with consecutive employment interrupted for
active military service and for probationary periods for assistant principals
and an alternative teacher layoff procedure under the teacher tenure act,
defining work year for teacher probationary period completion purposes;
requiring substantial teacher participation in the development of school
district educational improvement plans; providing a principled pay practices
system and aid for teachers in lieu of alternative teacher compensation aid,
authorizing the reopening of collective bargaining agreements for principled pay
practices and educational improvement plan purposes; requiring and providing for
commissioner selection of a certain number of schools as regional sites for the
development of teacher mentoring programs; authorizing school board employee
recognition and criminal apprehension and arrest reward programs; providing
concurrent enrollment program aid to school districts offering programs under
the post-secondary enrollment options (PSEO) program certified by the national
alliance of concurrent enrollment partnership and requiring or encourage
post-secondary institutions to award credit for successful completion of the
programs; authorizing the board of the Perpich center for arts education to
sponsor charter schools; providing for the payment of extended time and
transition revenues as part of the general education revenue formula for charter
schools and clarifying the prohibition on the receipt of aids, grants or revenue
based on certain levies; modifying eligibility for services under assurance of
mastery programs relating to students failing certain tests; authorizing
American Indian education programs in charter schools and eliminating the
required involvement of the American Indian education advisory committee in
grant and scholarship awards; providing for gifted and talented revenue as part
of general education revenue; requiring and providing for the commissioner to
continue implementation of the no child left behind act without interruption,
requiring nullification and revocation of implementation plans, contracts or
agreements on a certain date; authorizing the board of the Perpich center for
arts education to conduct meetings by telephone or other electronic means;
expanding the definition of public employee under the public employment labor
relations act (PELRA) to early childhood family education (ECFE) teachers
employed by school districts; modifying court findings requirements for children
adjudicated in need of protection or services relating to drivers licenses or
permits; providing for commissioner concurrent enrollment mathematics and
science partnership program grants to partnerships between post-secondary
educational institutions and school districts to expand mathematics and science
courses offered in the high school and to enhance staff development; requiring
the higher education advisory council to convene a working group to develop
college preparation standards; specifying certain duties of the commissioner
relating to adopting rules to implement the Minnesota comprehensive assessments
second edition (MCA-IIs) in reading, mathematics and writing, to transmitting to
school districts health and physical education model benchmarks and to amending
rules for supplemental services providers to include outcome standards;
requiring the office of educational accountability to evaluate the educational
impact of the federal no child left behind act and other state and federal laws
requiring school districts to administer tests to kindergarten through grade
twelve students; requiring the commissioner to work with the Minnesota school
boards association to develop a model policy prohibiting intimidation and
bullying; requiring school districts and department of education development of
certain licensed student support services; requiring the board of teaching to
prepare and submit to the legislature by a certain date proposed licensure
requirements for teachers of interdisciplinary curriculum to facilitate learning
in state approved innovative schools and programs; appropriating money to the
department of education for concurrent enrollment program and principled pay
practices aids, for concurrent enrollment mathematics and science partnership
program grants and aid and for the university of Minnesota and state colleges
and universities to become provisional members of the national alliance of
concurrent enrollment partnership and for schools mentoring schools regional
sites; repealing a certain existing provision providing for programs to prevent
and reduce the risks of sexually transmitted infections and diseases and the
alternative teacher compensation system

ARTICLE 2 - SPECIAL
PROGRAMS

Expanding aversive and deprivation procedures to positive behavioral
interventions and supports and time outs and modifying and expanding certain
rule requirements of the commissioner of education; establishing a student
support services advisory committee, specifying certain membership requirements
and duties; providing for the establishment of education administrative
districts and district boards to increase the efficiency of administrative
services; expanding the definition of transportation services for pupils with
disabilities for transportation aid entitlement purposes; restoring school
district career and technical levy authority; prohibiting nonresident school
districts providing special instruction and services from billing special
education tuition costs to resident districts without resident district
participation or declination of participation by the resident district in the
development of the individual education plan; modifying certain membership
requirements for special education parent advisory councils and the date for
annual submission by the state interagency coordinating council of
recommendations to the governor and certain commissioners on policies for a
comprehensive and coordinated special instruction system; providing
transportation for homeless pupils; requiring the commissioner to designate a
state coordinator for world languages education within the department and
specifying certain duties of the coordinator; requiring the commissioner to
appoint an advisory committee to advise the staff of the Minnesota library for
the blind and physically handicapped on long range plans and library services;
establishing the native language eminence credentialing task force to support
the teaching and revitalization of the Dakota and Anishinaabe languages,
specifying certain membership requirements and duties; providing for the
awarding of model extended world language program grants by the commissioner;
requiring and providing for the establishment of a temporary task force on the
delivery of special education services to nonpublic school students by public
school districts with the congressional reauthorization of the federal
individuals with disabilities education act to compare and evaluate individual
needs for services; appropriating money to the department of education for world
languages programs grants

ARTICLE 3 - TECHNOLOGY, FACILITIES AND
NUTRITION

Expanding certain school or school district parental and participant
notice requirements relating to the use of certain older pools for supervised
competitive high school diving training and competitions; requiring school
districts to include certain acoustical performance criteria in facility
construction proposals; modifying the online learning program, establishing a
temporary online learning advisory council; providing
telecommunications/internet access equity aid to school districts or charter
schools, requiring school districts to provide telecommunications/internet
access services for nonpublic schools upon request; authorizing and providing
for administrative regions of the state high school league to contract with the
state auditor or with private certified public accountants (CPA) to perform
annual audits; requiring schools, school districts and the department of
education to comply with the schools interoperability framework specifications
to provide for efficient student data sharing, requiring the commissioner of
administration and the chief information officer to establish a school data
sharing working group; requiring the commissioner of education to select
computer based adaptive assessments to accurately measure student achievement
and growth in conjunction with federal statewide testing and reporting
requirements and a certain number of school districts to participate in a
student portfolio demonstration project; repealing certain provisions providing
for structurally balanced school district budgets, for a payment priority under
the online learning option and certain high school league auditor report content
requirements
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