Legislative Session number- 81

Bill Name: SF2242

E Providing for the funding of prekindergarten through grade 12 education
programs and servicesARTICLE 1 - GENERAL EDUCATIONEliminating a certain
provision allowing access by the department of children, families and learning
to welfare data to produce accurate numbers of students receiving aid to
families with dependent children or Minnesota family investment program (MFIP)
benefits due to a change in the basis of the basic skills revenue formula;
increasing the staff development revenue reservation requirement and modifying
the allocation requirement; changing site decision making teams to site
professional development teams; requiring the recognition of integration aid in
the same year as the integration levy; adjusting the nonpublic pupil
transportation aid formula; modifying the general education revenue formula for
charter schools, including the referendum equalization aid allowance in the
district of residence; increasing the early childhood family education (ECFE)
and community education levy tax rates and modifying the extended day levy
formula; setting the limited English proficiency programs revenue formula;
changing certain references to compensatory revenue to basic skills revenue
under certain graduation incentives and alternative programs provisions and
providing for payment; modifying the integration revenue formula and expanding
eligibility for the revenue; increasing the pupil unit weighting for students in
kindergarten and the primary grades; requiring compensation revenue pupil units
for charter schools and contracted alternative programs in the first year of
operation to be computed using data for the current fiscal year; modifying the
calculation of adjusted pupil units, expanding use of the units and of pupil
units served to charter schools and defining adjusted and resident marginal cost
pupil units; including equity revenue in and eliminating graduation standards
implementation revenue from the general education revenue formula; modifying and
increasing the basic revenue formula allowance; modifying the determination of
basic skills revenue; providing for use of adjusted marginal cost pupil units in
the basic, basic skills, training and experience, supplemental, total operating
cost capital and transportation sparsity and transition allowance revenue
formulas and in the transition revenue adjustment; providing for the calculation
of sparsity revenue using pupil units served instead of resident pupil units;
adjusting the supplemental and transition levy tax rates; permanently
eliminating the supplemental revenue reduction for certain school districts;
authorizing the use of total operating capital revenue to purchase library
technology; clarifying the calculation of the transition allowance; providing
equity revenue for certain school districts, providing for regional and district
equity gaps and a district equity index and defining equity region for revenue
computation purposes; specifying a learning and development revenue reservation
requirement; reducing the general education tax rate and clarifying the
calculation of the general education levy; requiring the reservation of all
basic skills revenue and clarifying the building allocation formula; basing the
calculation of the referendum revenue allowance, referendum revenue and the
referendum equalization levy on resident marginal cost pupil units, increasing
the referendum equalization revenue formula and adjusting the referendum
equalization and district cooperation levy tax rates; providing for the
allocation of general education revenue to building sites, specifying certain
separate account and data reporting requirements; making permanent the retired
employee health benefits levy and increasing the annual levy limit; increasing
certain operating debt levy formulas; modifying certain aid and abatement
adjustment and aid payment requirements; requiring the payment of general
education aid to the serving district; basing the general education aid
reduction and increase requirements for the payment of aid for alternative
attendance programs on referendum equalization aid instead of general education
revenue minus basic skills revenue and clarifying the calculation of tuition
amounts; eliminating the reduction in general education aid for pupils attending
charter schools; requiring statewide average revenue estimates to be based on
adjusted marginal cost pupil units; delaying the repeal of certain education
finance provisions and eliminating the repeal of learning year pupil units;
clarifying certain revenue conversion, tax rate adjustment, equalizing factor
and qualifying tax rate provisions; authorizing independent school district 272,
Eden Prairie to levy to rent or lease administrative space; authorizing an
operating debt levy in independent school district 417, Tracy; providing
declining pupil unit aid for independent school districts 508, St. Peter, 592,
Climax, 2171, Kittson Central, 2854, Ada-Borup, 2176, Warren-Alvarado-Oslo, 846,
Breckenridge and 595, East Grand Forks and 2856, Stephen-Argyle Central;
providing airport runway impact aid for independent school district 280,
Richfield; requiring the department of children, families and learning to make
appropriate weighting adjustments to fiscal year 1999 pupil units for fiscal
year 2000 to reflect the impact of the new adjusted and marginal cost pupil
units; specifying certain school district class size reduction, all day
kindergarten or special education student to instructor ratio reduction revenue
reservation requirements; setting the referendum allowance for independent
school district 277, Westonka; appropriating money to the department for general
and supplemental education, transportation safety, enrollment options
transportation, district cooperation revenue, declining pupil unit and airport
runway impact aids, for magnet school integration revenue, for the Emily charter
school to correct the impact of over reporting of compensatory revenue, for the
Success Academy charter school for compensatory pupils not counted in the
1998-99 school year calculation, for transition compensatory grants to
independent school districts 11, Anoka-Hennepin, 281, Robbinsdale, 625, St.
Paul, 709, Duluth, 279, Osseo and 535, Rochester, for marginal cost transition
grants to several different school districts and for a grant to the range
association of municipalities and schools to provide a coordinated response to
declining enrollment; repealing certain provisions relating to student
transportation safety revenue and aid, graduation standards implementation,
historic building and assurance of mastery revenues, limited English proficiency
(LEP) programs aid and AFDC pupil units, certain obsolete appropriation
transfers and a certain prior appropriation to expand the wide area
transportation pilot project ARTICLE 2 - SPECIAL PROGRAMS Specifying certain
requirements of individual education plan teams upon suspension from school of
students with disabilities and providing for review of the relationship between
the disability and the behavior subject to disciplinary action for IEP
appropriateness determination purposes; expanding the authority to teach English
as a second language (ESL) in adult basic education programs; requiring and
providing for the board of teaching to adopt a separate licensure rule for
teachers of oral aural deaf education programs; modifying the area learning
center reserved revenue requirement for member school districts and expanding
services access and program focus requirements of the centers to English
language and literacy programs; removing first grade preparedness pilot sites
from the program upon fall of the percentage of children eligible for free or
reduced price lunches below the state average and delaying the expiration date
for the program; modifying the state total school to work program disabled
revenue and increasing the state total limited English proficiency (LEP) program
revenue; clarifying the calculation of additional revenue for homeless students;
providing for care and treatment instructional aid for nondisabled children
placed in care and treatment facilities; lowering the maximum age for the
provision of services to children with disabilities and eliminating certain
references to federal law; eliminating the authority of the department of
children, families and learning to pay lay advocate costs and modifying a
certain provision regulating the appointment of impartial hearing officers for
special education dispute resolution purposes; subjecting government agencies
providing services to students with disabilities under interagency agreements to
the same dispute resolution systems as local school districts; placing the
responsibility for transportation to and from care and treatment facilities for
pupils with a disability on the resident district and restricting the
transportation to regular district operating hours; requiring the commissioner
of children, families and learning to develop a special education reciprocity
agreement form specifying procedures for calculating special education tuition
charges for students served in other states and for out of state students served
in Minnesota; granting access to the due process hearing and complaint system to
parties serving nonpublic school students on a shared time basis; delaying the
requirement for school districts to seek third party reimbursement for health
related expenses; changing parent advisory committees to councils to increase
parental involvement in district policy and decision making, requiring
incorporation into the district special education system plan; eliminating
certain duties of local interagency early intervention committees and the
requirement for the departments of children, families and learning, health and
human services to provide assistance to local agencies in developing cooperative
service plans; reducing the time limit for development of transition plans for
children no longer eligible for early intervention services; modifying certain
provisions regulating the placement and transportation of children without
disabilities, requiring commissioner approval of education plans for facilities
licensure purposes and eliminating the requirement for commissioner development
of an education screening tool for use in residential facilities; changing the
name of the Faribault academies for the deaf and blind to the Minnesota state
academies and the name of the board to the board of the Minnesota state
academies, increasing board membership and clarifying the term limit, requiring
the appointment of site councils, authorizing recommendations to the governor on
board appointees from the site councils; requiring the commissioner of human
services to reimburse school districts for the federal share of individual
education plan health related services qualifying for medical assistance (MA)
reimbursement and eliminating the responsibility of prepaid health plans for
special education services; requiring the state to reimburse school districts
for the actual cost of providing instruction for all children placed in licensed
facilities for care and treatment, program approval requirement; including
interpreter and transliterator fees in litigation and hearing costs for school
district reimbursement purposes, changing the date for annual submission to the
commissioner of unreimbursed costs lists and eliminating state aid for attorney
fees; increasing the special education revenue program growth factor,
eliminating the aid and levy percentage factors and adding the nonfederal share
of certain medical assistance costs to the base revenue formula; changing state
total special education revenue to aid and increasing the aid; defining average
daily membership and program growth factor for special education excess cost
revenue purposes, changing excess cost revenue to aid and providing for initial,
state total and district special education excess cost aids; authorizing school
districts to submit unreimbursed special education expenditures to the state for
payment for disabled children placed in care and treatment facilities by court
action in states without a reciprocity agreement; requiring the commissioner to
implement a uniform billing system for education services provided to students
placed outside the home; increasing the crime related costs levy formula and
expanding authorized uses of the proceeds; requiring the commissioner in
cooperation with the commissioner of human services to monitor the costs of
health related special education services provided by public schools; resident
district of homeless pupils to be the district of enrollment; exempting teachers
of oral aural deaf education from demonstrating proficiency in American sign
language (ASL); modifying the match requirement for homeless children education
programs grants; providing for the distribution of certain prior first grade
preparedness program grant appropriations; modifying the requirement for the
state board of education to amend certain rules affecting special education
instruction and services; requiring and providing for the commissioner of
children, families and learning to establish a community intervention and
prevention grant program for at risk children and families; requiring the
commissioner to convene a temporary task force to make recommendations on a
system to approve education programs serving children at care and treatment
facilities including detention facilities and report to the legislature by a
certain date, to recommend options on special education funding formulas to the
legislature by a certain earlier date and to update certain special education
rules; appropriating money to the department of children, families and learning
for American Indian education and language and cultural programs, post-secondary
and teacher preparation grants, tribal contract schools and early childhood
programs at tribal schools, for magnet school grants, for integration programs
for minority fellowship and teacher incentives, teachers of color and cultural
exchange grants, for special education, children with a disability, travel for
home based services, special education excess cost, special programs
equalization, integration and care and treatment instructional aids, for
interdistrict desegregation or integration transportation, community
intervention and prevention and first grade preparedness program grants, for
school to work programs for students with disabilities, for additional revenue
and education programs matching grants for homeless students, for the center for
victims of torture, for certain grants to independent school district 707, Nett
Lake, for a special education revenue adjustment for independent school district
535, Rochester, for out of state tuition, for implementing the uniform billing
and care and treatment facilities education programs approval systems, for
certain litigation costs and for court placed special education revenue;
specifying certain reference change instructions to the revisor of statutes;
repealing the purpose and certain evaluation requirements under the first grade
preparedness program, certain special education aid provisions, the options plus
pilot program, Mexican origin education and in school behavior intervention
grants, certain rule amendment requirements of the state board of education and
certain suspension and expulsion rules ARTICLE 3 - LIFELONG LEARNINGModifying
the secondary vocational aid formula; extending the availability of a certain
prior appropriation to the department of children, families and learning for a
grant to independent school district 330, Heron Lake-Okabena to establish the
southwest star concept school; appropriating money to the department of
children, families and learning for secondary vocational aid, for youth works
programs, for education and employment transitions program grants, for the learn
and earn graduation achievement program and for the southwest star concept
school; repealing a certain provision requiring the state to pay secondary
vocational education program aids on a current funding basis ARTICLE 4 -
FACILITIES AND TECHNOLOGYChanging the debt service equalization program to the
facilities equalization program, modifying and expanding eligible facilities
revenue under the program, modifying the levy formula and the aid payment
schedule, specifying a debt service priority and reducing the standing
appropriations for the program; providing for the financing of health and safety
projects for certain cooperative units; changing handicapped access and fire
safety improvements levy authority to revenue; changing the alternative
facilities bonding and levy program to the alternative facilities revenue
program and expanding eligibility under the program; authorizing school
districts to issue bonds to prepay special assessments; authorizing the receipt
of revenue under the facilities equalization revenue program to finance
construction projects downpayments (down payments) or to pay for new school
building leases; increasing the limit on metropolitan magnet school grants;
modifying the school district and regional library telecommunications access
grant programs, modifying grant priority and eliminating certain minimum
capacity standards and network service and management agreements from program
requirements and requiring grant clusters to file e-rate applications for grant
related expenditures on behalf of participants; reducing the interactive
television revenue levy and increasing the tax rate; authorizing the
commissioner of finance to enter into written agreements or contracts relating
to the continuing disclosure of information needed to facilitate the ability of
school districts to issue debt obligations according to federal securities laws,
rules and regulations; modifying the maximum effort debt service levy formulas
and school district eligibility for capital loans and increasing the loan amount
and modifying the bond sale limits; clarifying the role of the Minnesota
education telecommunications council and eliminating the repeal of the
telecommunications access grant program; authorizing the use of a certain prior
appropriation to the commissioner of children, families and learning for a grant
to the east metropolitan integration magnet school for site development;
authorizing independent school district 4, McGregor to levy for energy
improvements and independent school district 704, Proctor to make health and
safety improvements to an ice arena; granting eligibility for the alternative
facilities revenue program to independent school districts 834, Stillwater, 621,
Mounds View, 622, North St. Paul-Maplewood-Oakdale and 624, White Bear Lake;
requiring the department of children, families and learning to recompute the tax
rate under the maximum effort school aid law for independent school district
728, Elk River; authorizing the commissioner to reopen the application process
for residential academies grants under certain conditions; appropriating money
to the department for facilities equalization and interactive television (ITV)
aids, for one time infrastructure grants to independent school districts 23,
Frazee, 659, Northfield, 392, Le Center, 31, Bemidji and 542, Battle Lake, for a
boiler facility grant to independent school district 286, Brooklyn Center, for
disaster relief facilities grants to independent school districts 81, Comfrey
and 508, St. Peter, for a planning grant to the Minnesota River valley education
district, for grants to special school district 1, Minneapolis for the urban
league street academy and to independent school districts 2862, Jackson county
central for certain unanticipated facilities and consolidation costs, 738,
Holdingford for a girls locker room and school theater, 2155, Wadena-Deer Creek
for a technology pilot project, 911, Cambridge-Isanti for the year round
optional school facility and 411, Ballaton, 402, Ivanhoe, 404, Lake Benton, 418,
Russell, 584, Ruthton and 409, Tyler for a cooperative secondary facility and
for telecommunication access grants; repealing the cooperative secondary
facilities and school building accessibility capital improvement grant acts,
health and safety levy and aid provisions, a certain alternative facilities
appropriation, the building construction down payment program, cooperation and
combination capital facilities grants, handicapped access and fire safety
improvements levy provisions and certain obsolete facilities rules; specifying
certain codification and headnote change instructions to the revisor of statutes
ARTICLE 5 - EDUCATION EXCELLENCEAuthorizing the agriculture education leadership
council to provide grants for elementary agriculture education programs;
providing for building lease aid for area learning centers and contracted
alternative schools; authorizing education districts to sponsor charter schools;
specifying a time limit for school board votes on charter school sponsorship
applications and eliminating the requirement for a certain number of board
members to vote for sponsorship to appeal a negative decision; authorizing the
state board of education to waive the requirement for licensed teachers to be a
majority of the members of the board of directors; reducing the teacher
signature percentage requirement for petitions to convert existing schools to
charter schools; imposing a time limit for completion of charter school
contracts; authorizing charter school teachers to perform administrative,
supervisory or instructional leadership duties without holding a valid
administrators license; increasing building lease aid and modifying the aid
payment schedule for charter schools, providing for additional compensatory
revenue under certain growth conditions; providing a property tax exemption for
leased charter school property; modifying and expanding the school enrichment
partnership program; eliminating the authority of the commissioner of children,
families and learning to charge for software development and clarifying the role
of the department in approving software systems used by school districts and
charter schools; expanding Minnesota learning academy training opportunities to
school media and information technology professionals; establishing the brain
power birth to classroom system alignment pilot; establishing a stability
demonstration project in independent school district 625, St. Paul involving
high mobility schools; requiring and providing for the commissioner to
administer grants to school sites offering basic skills intervention programs
outside the regular school day; continuing the class size study in independent
school district 12, Centennial; requiring the education organizations
participating in the development of a report on costs of health insurance for
kindergarten through grade 12 educators to report to the legislature by a
certain date; appropriating money to the department of children, families and
learning for statewide testing and implementation of the graduation standards,
for charter school building lease and integration aid, compensatory growth
costs, start up grants and leased property, for the St. Paul community based
school program, for graduation rule resource and talented student programs
grants, for the clearinghouse of best educational practices, for a grant to
independent school district 623, Roseville for the student council national
convention, for area learning center building lease aid, for the brain power
program, for the stability demonstration project in independent school district
625, St. Paul, for basic skills intervention programs, for the class size study
in independent school district 12, Centennial and for homework hotline provider
grants ARTICLE 6 - OTHER PROGRAMSRequiring the reporting of student birth dates
in lieu of ages to school district superintendents by home school instructors;
providing an alternative procedure to school board adoption of proposed plats
for consolidation purposes; providing for school district integrated pest
management plans and pesticide application notices; providing revenue for
breakfast in public elementary schools; modifying the authority of school
districts to spread out abatement levies; extending the levy authority of the
Lac qui Parle joint powers district to independent school district 2853, Lac qui
Parle valley; appropriating money to the department of children, families and
learning for abatement, consolidation transition, nonpublic pupil education and
transportation, school lunch and summer food service replacement aids, for fast
break to learning revenue, for HIV education training sites, for public
transportation school grants, for the school breakfast program, for magnet
school grants to independent school districts 347, Willmar and 696, Ely and for
an urban agricultural high school, for a grant to independent school district
690, Warroad to operate the Angle Inlet school and for integrated pest
management training and manual development; repealing the school breakfast
revolving fund and cash incentive ARTICLE 7 - EDUCATION POLICYAuthorizing school
districts to begin the school year before September 1st to accommodate certain
large construction or remodeling projects; eliminating certain references to the
abolished state board of education, transferring certain duties to the
commissioner of children, families and learning; delaying the measuring of
student achievement levels to the 2000-2001 school year and specifying certain
requirements of the recommended model; providing for the participation of law
enforcement agencies, county attorney offices and social service agencies in
school boards development of school discipline policies; requiring the
commissioner to maintain and make available to school boards a model crisis
management policy and school boards to adopt district crisis management policies
to address potential violent crisis situations in the district by certain dates;
requiring the board of teaching at the request of a teacher trainee seeking
licensure or a licensed graduate of a teacher preparation program to hold a
hearing to resolve matters affecting the components of teacher preparation
programs; extending the deadline for the board to adopt rules requiring
successful completion of an examination of general pedagogical knowledge and
examinations of licensure specific teaching skills for teacher licensing
purposes; requiring the board to adopt rules to require public school teachers
renewing licensure to obtain further preparation in using positive behavior
interventions and in accommodating, modifying and adapting curricula, materials
and strategies to meet graduation rule requirements and to adopt rules for
licensing teachers providing health related services for disabled children
consistent with licensure requirements of the commissioner of health and the
health related licensing boards; authorizing the board to allow persons enrolled
in teacher programs and successfully completing student teaching to be employed
as short call substitute teachers; requiring college and university teacher
preparation programs to include certain strategies for teaching reading;
authorizing the commissioner with the advice of an advisory task force of
supervisory personnel to address complaints and other licensure issues relating
to supervisory personnel; authorizing the board to set fees for supervisory
personnel licenses; extending the deadline for school district notice to
teachers of termination; replacing site decision making teams with site
professional development teams and modifying certain staff development plan
goals; establishing the Minnesota new teacher project in the department of
children, families and learning to retain new teachers and to provide support
for returning teachers; authorizing cooperative units to apply for competitive
grants; authorizing school boards to contract with public or private entities to
provide instructional and noninstructional services consistent with district
collective bargaining agreements; restricting the application of the provision
limiting school district participation in financial support agreements;
modifying the procedural requirements for initial or continuing employment by
school districts of school board members, requiring majority approval of the
board; requiring school boards to annually calculate the general education,
basic skills and referendum revenue generated by pupils in attendance at each
site and inform each site of the estimate and report the information to the
department; requiring school bus safety training programs in districts using
buses equipped with seat belts to provide appropriate training on the use of the
belts; providing for termination of participation in the enrollment options
(open enrollment) program by certain truant students; eliminating the
desegregation plan and summer programs requirements for the implementation of
cultural exchange programs; requiring the commissioner to survey school
districts and biennially report to the legislature on the status of the teacher
shortage; modifying the term of governing board members of the state high school
league and prohibiting the payment of per diem to full time state, school
district or local government unit employee board members, subjecting the league
to school district goods and services purchasing regulations, prohibiting
interscholastic conferences from adopting policies limiting school board power
to enter into cooperative sponsorship agreements, eliminating a certain dues and
events revenue examination scope agreement requirement and granting the
commissioner the authority to examine league activities or issues; granting
intermediate school districts certain bond issuance authority; establishing a
maximum length for certain types of school buses and requiring type III vans or
buses converted to a smaller seating capacity to have been originally
manufactured to comply with passenger safety standards; making the provision
requiring approaching vehicles to stop for school buses applicable to persons in
highway work zones; modifying the authority of the commissioner of public safety
to cancel school bus driver license endorsements and expanding the authority of
the commissioner to waive endorsement permanent cancellations for conviction of
certain violations; authorizing school districts to pay employees according to
applicable contracts, collective bargaining agreements or personnel policies;
requiring the filing of a surety bond to contest elections approving the
issuance of bonds by school districts; extending and modifying certain
provisions of the grant program to promote professional teaching standards,
requiring and providing for regional coordinators; establishing a program to
provide for alternative pathways for teacher preparation; requiring the
Minnesota state colleges and universities and the university of Minnesota to set
aside a portion of higher education teacher education resources for teacher
preparation programs committed to meeting the projected teacher shortages;
requiring the board of teaching to communicate with school districts on
procedures for expediting the hiring of substitute teachers; requiring the
department of children, families and learning to determine methods of meeting
district needs for licensed school counselors; requiring the revisor of statutes
to recodify state high school league eligibility rules; requiring the
commissioner of children, families and learning to establish a grant program for
school districts to evaluate alternative calendar projects; requiring the
commissioner of administration to develop and make available a model policy
reflecting state and federal regulations relating to access to and dissemination
of student records and to make clarification recommendations to the legislature
by a certain date; authorizing independent school districts 253, Goodhue, 912,
Milaca and 518, Worthington to begin the 1998-1999 or 1999-2000 school year
before September 1st; authorizing certain permanent fund transfers in
independent school districts 624, White Bear Lake, 882, Monticello, 495, Grand
Meadow, 656, Faribault and 277, Westonka; appropriating money to the department
for the urban teacher and alternative pathways teacher preparation,
collaborative urban educator, school administrators recruitment and partners for
quality school improvement pilot training programs, for the Minnesota new
teacher and alternative calendar evaluation projects, for professional teaching
standards promotion grants, for reimbursement to independent school district
116, Pillager for certain legal expenses and for implementation of a
metropolitan area teacher licensure program to increase the number of
metropolitan area teachers of students with emotional and behavioral disorders;
repealing the additional three days of student instruction requirement and
certain provisions relating to the state board of education ARTICLE 8 -
LIBRARIESChanging the joint library pilot project at Nashwauk-Keewatin high
school to an ongoing project, providing for a joint powers agreement; expanding
eligibility for site based technology learning grants to certain additional
libraries; expanding the database access program for public libraries and school
media centers to state agency and public or private college or university
libraries, modifying eligibility and eliminating the availability of graduation
rule resources grants for the program; appropriating money to the department of
children, families and learning for basic library system support grants, for
multicounty multitype library systems, for regional library telecommunications
aid, for the library for the blind and for the database access program ARTICLE 9
- STATE AGENCIESAuthoriziing the Minnesota state academies for the deaf and
blind and the Lola and Rudy Perpich Minnesota center for arts education to start
the school year before September 1st; specifying certain child maltreatment
reports investigation requirements of the commissioner of children, families and
learning; specifying certain reference change instructions to the revisor of
statutes; transferring the powers and duties of the department of children,
families and learning relating to drug policy and violence prevention to the
department of public safety; appropriating money to the department of children,
families and learning for the teaching and learning, lifework development,
management and support services and office of community services programs, to
the center for arts education and to the Minnesota state academies; specifying
certain renumbering and cross reference correction instructions to the revisor
of statutes; repealing the transfer of powers and duties relating to drug policy
and violence prevention from the department of public safety to the department
of children, families and learning ARTICLE 10 - EDUCATION CODE; COMPULSORY
ATTENDANCEDefining charter school and public school under the education code;
clarifying parental responsibility for assuring the enrollment of children in
school; modifying the authority of school districts to require summer school
attendance ARTICLE 11 - CURRICULUM AND ASSESSMENTRepealing certain instruction
and curriculum requirements including the advisory committee and building teams,
the requirement for parental curriculum review and the endowed chair
programARTICLE 12 - STUDENT RIGHTS, RESPONSIBILITIES AND BEHAVIOREliminating
certain form requirements for reporting school zone dangerous weapons incidents
and reducing the reporting frequency requirement; modifying federal flag display
requirements; clarifying certain immunization requirements, eliminating certain
requirements suspension authority of the commissioner of health and modifying
the definition of person enrolled in any elementary or secondary school relating
to children with disabilities; eliminating certain mandates relating to school
district programs to prevent and reduce the risk of acquired immune deficiency
syndrome and certain requirements relating to chemical abuse preassessment and
school and community advisory teams; clarifying the requirement for students to
wear industrial quality eye protective devices; clarifying the provision
regulating school safety patrols; eliminating the requirement for the
commissioner of children, families and learning to encourage and assist school
districts to cooperatively establish alternative educational services for
dismissed pupils and certain hazing policy mandates; repealing certain
provisions requiring copies of harassment and violence policies to be submitted
to the commissioner and providing for additional funding sources for AIDS
programsARTICLE 13 - TEACHERS AND OTHER EDUCATORSEliminating certain mandates
relating to board of teaching register of persons licensed; eliminating athletic
coaches from the definition of supervisory personnel; eliminating certain
restrictions on the hiring of teachers; eliminating certain mandates relating to
negotiated unrequested leave plans; eliminating the requirement for teachers to
pay for requested records reproductions; requiring the negotiation of certain
issues in teacher contracts; modifying the hearing requirement for the
termination of coaching duties; eliminating the requirement for district reports
of staff development results, the annual cap on the employment of teacher
residents and a certain requirement for the board of teaching to consult with
the teacher mentoring task force in approving mentorship program applications;
transferring the responsibility for the interstate agreement on qualifications
of educational personnel from the commissioner of children, families and
learning to the executive director of the board of teaching; specifying certain
renumbering instructions to the revisor of statutes; repealing certain
provisions relating to teacher licensure and preparation programs, assessment
professionals, teacher supervisory control of schools, contracts, sabbatical
leave, recordkeeping and reporting requirements, staff exchanges, the
educational effectiveness program, teacher centers and the administrators
academy ARTICLE 14 - SCHOOL DISTRICTS; FORMS FOR ORGANIZINGRepealing certain
requirements for area learning center programs to be available year round and to
serve as a resource for other districts and the purpose of education districts
ARTICLE 15 - SCHOOL DISTRICT POWERS AND DUTIES Clarifying the general authority
of school boards; eliminating the requirement for school boards to provide free
textbooks to district pupils; simplifying certain provisions regulating school
site decision making teams, requiring notice to parents relating to involvement
and eliminating certain agreement content requirements and options, certain
responsibilities of the commissioner of children, families and learning relating
to the agreements, the authority of school boards to enter into certain
agreements and certain responsibilities of school superintendents; expanding the
authority of school boards to charge certain fees; eliminating certain
provisions regulating the use of textbooks and instructional materials by
nonpublic school pupils and school fire inspections; requiring senate
confirmation of members of the council on nonpublic education; eliminating the
authority of school boards to designate school bus driver day, certain student
school bus safety training competency demonstration requirements and the
requirement to provide kindergarten pupils with safety training before the first
day of school; making optional the transportation safety reserved revenue
requirement; repealing certain school board powers, a certain provision
providing for imprest cash funds, certain duties of school principals, certain
recordkeeping or reporting penalties, certain provisions regulating curricular
activities and providing for the use of school buildings, for agricultural
education and for advertising on school buses, certain student transportation
provisions and the requirement for school boards to visit schools ARTICLE 16 -
EDUCATION PROGRAMS Modifying and clarifying the kindergarten instruction
requirement; modifying certain enrollment options (open enrollment) program
application procedures and certain requirements under the post-secondary
enrollment options (PSEO) program; changing the purposes of charter schools to
expected outcomes and modifying certain information dissemination requirements;
clarifying certain provisions relating to the school breakfast and milk
programs; changing mandatory components of the family connections program to
expectations and requiring certain teacher negotiations; requiring commissioner
of children, families and learning approval of plans and applications for family
connections aid; eliminating certain guidelines for the Minnesota school to work
student organization foundation relating to vocational learning experiences;
changing the purposes of the Minnesota youth works act to expected outcomes,
eliminating certain duties of the governor's workforce development council
relating to grants, modifying certain grant application procedures and
eliminating certain application content requirements and certain
responsibilities of grantees; modifying certain requirements under the
comprehensive education and employment transitions system and the comprehensive
youth apprenticeship program; requiring school districts to make the final
decision on the location of limited English proficiency services for nonpublic
pupils; eliminating certain program guidelines for American Indian language and
culture education programs; eliminating the office of desegregation integration
and transferring responsibilities to the commissioner; eliminating certain
program guidelines for the Minnesota academic excellence foundation; specifying
certain renumbering instructions to the revisor of statutes; repealing certain
powers of school district boards, certain provisions under the enrollment
options program, the purpose of the first grade preparedness program, certain
provisions under the post-secondary enrollment options act, the charter school
length of school year requirement, the purpose of the school breakfast program,
the flexible learning year program, certain provisions under the youth works
act, certain LEP aid provisions, a certain provision providing for parental
involvement programs, the Minnesota local partnership act and certain purposes
and policies ARTICLE 17 - EDUCATION AND TECHNOLOGY Eliminating the term
computerized from certain educational information system requirements, the
purposes of the statewide school district telecommunications network, the
requirement for the education telecommunication council to notify nonqualified
grant applicants and the authority of unsuccessful applicants to reapply for
grants; repealing certain duties of the department relating to the data
acquisition calendar and a certain provision providing for regional
clearinghouses for improving technology ARTICLE 18 - EDUCATION FUNDING Excluding
certain adult students from the pupil unit count; eliminating certain
unnecessary language ARTICLE 19 - STATE ADMINISTRATION OF EDUCATION Eliminating
the authority of the commissioner of children, families and learning to appoint
deputy commissioners, to repeal existing rules and to exercise authority over
evening schools and eliminating certain duties of the commissioner relating to
the adoption of goals and preparation of outlines for local school districts and
laws modifications and unification recommendations; modifying a certain
provision requiring the reduction of aid for violations of law and eliminating
certain directives from the legislature to school districts; repealing a certain
audit reporting requirement of the commissioner ARTICLE 20 - PERPICH CENTER FOR
ARTS EDUCATIONEliminating certain powers of the board of the Perpich center for
arts education (mk, ja)