Legislative Session number- 89

Bill Name: SF1495

2E Providing policy for early childhood and kindergarten through grade 12
education

ARTICLE 1 - GENERAL EDUCATION

Modifying, clarifying, and
updating certain education funding formulas relating to operating capital levy,
general education aid, referendum allowance and limit, and taconite levy
reductions; extending the date for establishment of the student achievement
rate; repealing the retired employee health insurance benefits levy

ARTICLE 2
- EDUCATION EXCELLENCE

Modifying the definition of directory information to
conform to federal changes; allowing for school board approval of a four-day
week school schedule; modifying certain mathematics academic standards revision
and review requirements; Modifying and updating certain academic standards
provisions relating foreign language and culture proficiency certificates, state
bilingual and multilingual seals, and credit equivalencies; requiring school
districts to include a grade promotion or retention policy in their strategic
plan; modifying local literacy plan requirements; modifying requirements for
curriculum personal learning plans; modifying the statewide testing and
reporting system provision and providing for special and extenuating
circumstances, specifying certain state assessment results requirements, and
establishing the usage of statewide assessment data by districts; prescribing
certain time limits on standardized tests; clarifying and modifying certain
teacher licensure candidates requirements and rules provisions; specifying
certain duties of the board of teaching; removing language excluding retired
principals who serve as a substitute principal from continuing education
requirements; authorizing the issuance of limited provisional licenses under
certain conditions; expanding the list of offenses that authorizes the board of
teaching or board of school administrators to deny or revoke a teaching license;
modifying alternative teacher licensure; placing licensure via portfolio under
the board of teaching; allowing for teacher license reciprocity; clarifying the
exemption for technical education instructors; modifying certain employment
contract provisions; modifying and clarifying certain placement requirements for
practice or student teachers; allowing ninth and tenth grade high school
students to enroll in world language concurrent enrollment course; modifying
authorization for career or technical education and enrollment priority
requirements under the postsecondary enrollment options act; modifying certain
charter school provisions relating to authorizers, formation of school, federal,
state and local requirements, admission requirements, pupil performance, pupils
with disability, annual public reporting requirements, and merger authorization;
modifying the learning year program; modifying and conforming certain provisions
under the American Indian education act relating to policy, establishment of the
tribal nations education committee, participating schools, education programs,
language and culture education licenses, community coordinators, Indian
home/school liaisons and paraprofessionals, parent and community participation
and involvement, technical assistance, and education director powers and duties;
modifying literacy incentive aid requirements, defining dyslexia, expanding use
of basic skills revenue; modifying 2015 teacher development and evaluation
revenue; allowing a school district to begin the 2015-2016 school year on
September 1; requiring a legislative report on assessing students' proficiency
in foreign languages when American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages
(ACTFL) assessments are unavailable; requiring the education department to
convene a group of stakeholders to review the current status of career and
technical educator licenses; allowing board of teaching recommendations on
service learning; making certain technical and conforming changes; repealing
certain provisions relating to improving graduation rates for students with
emotional or behavioral disorders, resource centers for the deaf or head of
hearing and blind or visually impaired, and learning and development revenue
amount and use annual reporting

ARTICLE 3 - SPECIAL PROGRAMS

Modifying
certain student discipline provisions; modifying, updating and conforming
certain special programs provisions relating to American sign language/English
interpreters, independent school districts transportation, coordinated
interagency special education services, local agency coordination
responsibilities, and individualized education programs; requiring school
districts to contract with student information system vendors able to seamlessly
transfer the records of students with disabilities; modifying special education
third-party payments references; modifying certain duties of the state
interagency coordinating council, the resource center for the deaf and
hard-of-hearing, and the academies for the deaf and hard-of-hearing and the
blind and visually impaired advisory committees; defining district for special
education revenue; clarifying special education aid; establishing target reading
level for certain special education forms; repealing a certain resource centers
provision relating to transfers

ARTICLE 4 - FACILITIES AND
TECHNOLOGY

Eliminating the reporting requirement for districts receiving
telecommunications and internet access equity aid (E-rates)

ARTICLE 5 - EARLY
CHILDHOOD EDUCATION

Modifying certain early learning scholarship provisions;
expanding family eligibility requirements; modifying certain duties of the
commission relating to factors for prioritizing scholarship applications;
modifying early childhood program eligibility requirements and specifying
scholarship record keeping for children participating in the program; specifying
use of scholarship funds requirements

ARTICLE 6 - STATE AGENCIES

Expanding
certain reporting requirements for reading proficiently no later than the end of
grade 3, alternative teacher pay professional pay systems reporting, and staff
development reporting; modifying distribution of assets and liabilities for
district withdrawing from cooperative unit; modifying certain reporting
requirements for district financial data, special education litigation costs
annual report, and survey of districts; specifying certain combined annual
reporting requirements to legislative committees; modifying state aid payments
omissions requirements; modifying membership requirements for the P-20 education
partnership

ARTICLE 7 - CHARTER SCHOOL STATUTES RECODIFICATION

Providing
for technical corrections and recodification of certain charter school
statutes
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