Legislative Session number- 85

Bill Name: SF3001

5E Modifying provisions relating to general education, education excellence,
special programs, libraries, state agencies, and self-sufficiency and lifelong
learning

ARTICLE 1 - GENERAL EDUCATION

Authorizing school boards to form
business entities for the sole purpose of producing and operating a wind energy
conversion system for the benefit of the district; modifying dates for school
district clerks to report district expenses and other financial information;
modifying dates and annual reporting requirements on district passage rates and
expenditures required to reflect students passage of GRAD to graduate; modifying
certain dates for audited financial data conversion by the commissioner;
clarifying certain provisions relating to debt verification, elimination and
certification of debt and changing the date for the commissioner to notify the
legislature of school districts failing to limit expenditures and in statutory
operating debt

ARTICLE 2 - EDUCATION EXCELLENCE

Designating ice hockey as the
official sport of the state; authorizing a parent or guardian to allow an
individual to participate in school conferences and receive student data,
providing a consent form, defining individual; providing for the sharing of
certain educational data between the department of education and the office of
higher education; increasing the compulsory attendance age from 16 to 18 years
of age beginning in the 2011-2012 school year; modifying certain compulsory
attendance requirements for children under seven; modifying reporting
requirements for home school parents instructing children between the ages of
seven and 16; modifying certain educational expectations for high school
graduation, requiring students to successfully pass state graduation exams;
adding physical education as a required academic standard and graduation
requirement, permitting a waiver; aligning the timelines for the revised math
standards and state academic standards in science and language arts with the
statewide assessments; defining certain terms for the educational accountability
system; modifying certain statewide testing and reporting system provisions;
requiring schools selected for stand alone state field testing or other national
sampling by the department to participate as requested; requiring the
commissioner to include a growth-based value-added indicator of students
achievement in reporting assessment results; requiring schools and school
districts to administer statewide assessments for evaluating proficiency in the
context of the state grade level academic standards; requiring the department of
education to establish an educational accountability and public reporting system
and authorizing the use of a growth-based value-added indicator of student
achievement over time, requiring the commissioner to aggregate student data to
report student performance and growth levels at the school, district and
statewide levels; directing the commissioner to development and implement a
system for measuring and reporting academic achievement and individual student
growth, specifying certain system requirements and federal expectations for
student academic achievement determinations; requiring the commissioner, in
consultation with assessment and evaluation experts and the office of
educational accountability to identify a model using a growth-based valued-added
system including criteria for identifying schools and school districts
demonstrating accelerated growth, requiring the commissioner to apply the state
growth norm to students in grades 4 through 8, authorizing the commissioner to
incorporate other growth-based value-added analysis in measuring district or
school growth and accelerated growth under certain conditions, specifying
certain annual reporting requirements; modifying school performance report cards
content and reporting requirements;requiring posting of federal adequate yearly
progress data and state student growth data to the public Web site by a certain
date; modifying value-added assessment program requirements and specifying
certain consultation requirements; expecting students to be present and
participate in school safety drills; requiring school districts to post the
school wellness policy on the district Web site; clarifying the definition of
comprehensive, scientifically based reading instruction; clarifying board of
teaching composition requirements; requiring the board of teaching to require
teacher preparation programs to include historical and cultural competencies
relating to state American Indian tribes, communities and contributions;
requiring universities preparing candidates for administrative licensure to
provide opportunities for the candidates to acquire competency in administering
gifted and talented services, specifying certain board of school administrators
review and approval requirements; modifying board of teaching licensure
requirements to include a reading instruction competence assessment; requiring
an assessment of reading instruction to measure prekindergarten and elementary
licensure candidate reading knowledge; specifying board of teaching review and
approval requirements for gifted and talented preparation programs; requiring
the administrators academy to provide opportunities to school administrators to
acquire competency in administering gifted and talented services; allowing a
school district to hold a hearing and invite public comment when proposed to
temporarily close a school or to lease the school to another entity to be used
as a school for a certain period of time; requiring a postsecondary institution
enrolling a secondary student in a course through the post secondary enrollment
options program for postsecondary credit to notify the student about payment;
modifying the online learning program (online learning option act) school
district reporting requirements and review criteria; specifying certain online
learning provider course and clarifying online learning standards; extending the
sunset for the online learning advisory council and the charter school advisory
council; modifying certain charter school formation requirements; imposing state
aid reductions for certain conflict of interest violations for charter schools;
modifying charter school contract requirements; modifying charter school audit
report content requirements; modifying charter school exemptions from statutes
and rules and specifying certain federal, state and local health and safety
requirements; modifying the time period for a teacher employed by a school
district to request a leave or extension of leave to teach at a charter school;
modifying certain termination of charter school contract requirements;
clarifying charter school related party lease cost requirements and defining
certain terms; requiring the commissioner, the Minnesota education technology
task force and representatives of school districts to jointly identify
technology tools and systems to improve students educational achievement and to
establish a foundation of services, specifying use requirements, requiring the
establishment of district technology standards, allowing the use of an expedited
rulemaking process for adoption of the standards; updating the eligibility for
the building lease levy for desegregation districts; establishing a P-20 (P20)
education partnership to create a seamless system of education to maximize
student achievements from early childhood through postsecondary education and
promotes the efficient use of financial and human resources, specifying certain
powers and duties, requiring annual report to the legislature; modifying the
definition of habitual truant; requiring the commissioner to convene groups for
implementing a student growth-based value-added system, for implementation of
rigorous coursework measures related to student performance and for implementing
measures for assessing school safety and students engagement and connections at
school, specifying certain membership requirements and duties, requiring reports
to the legislature by a certain date; requiring the commissioner, in
collaboration with a recognized assessment group and the office of educational
accountability to compare and report the results of using the growth-to-standard
and growth-based value-added models at the school and school district levels,
report requirement; specifying certain growth based value added system model
reference requirements; encouraging school districts experiencing disparities
in academic achievement among groups of students defined by race, ethnicity and
income to develop a plan to significantly improve academic achievement using
concrete measures to eliminate differences in academic performance, specifying
certain plan content requirements, requiring plan submittal to the commissioner
by a certain date, creating an advisory task force on improving students
academic achievement to review plans submitted to the commissioner and submit a
proposal for improving student academic achievement to the legislature by a
certain date, sunset provision; establishing an advisory task force on improving
teacher quality and identifying institutional structures and strategies for
effectively integrating secondary and postsecondary academic and career
education, requiring a report to the legislature, sunset provision; requiring
the board of teaching by a certain date to adopt a reading instruction
assessment for all prekindergarten and elementary licensure candidates,
requiring a legislative report and legislature submission of reading instruction
licensure board proposed rule changes; requiring the commissioner to report to
the legislature by a certain date on efforts to add computer adaptive
assessments to comprehensive assessments; providing for the retroactive revival
and reenactment of the charter school advisory council; repealing certain
compulsory education requirements

ARTICLE 3 - SPECIAL PROGRAMS

Extending the
time for school district notification to parents of enrollment of
a child in the
limited English proficiency (LEP) program; specifying notification
responsibilities for special instruction and services for a child placed in
another district for a day care and treatment program, requiring a nonresident
district to notify the resident district of an emergency placement of a child
without disabilities within a certain number of days, authorizing a resident
district to establish certain reasonable restrictions on transportation subject
to a court or agency order; eliminating the fiscal year cap on administrative
costs for the department of human services to administer individual education
plan health-related services; repealing certain provisions relating to aversive
and deprivation procedures, placing special education students in a state
institution on a temporary basis, tuition billing requirements for nonresident
students, transportation aid agreements, the definition of assistive technology
device and certain rulemaking authority

ARTICLE 4 - LIBRARIES

Modifying
certain department of education library responsibilities for the blind and
physically handicapped relating to the Braille and talking book library;
authorizing the advisory committee for the Minnesota Braille and talking book
library to conduct meetings by telephone and other electronic means under
certain conditions

ARTICLE 5 - STATE AGENCIES

Requiring the commissioner of
education to create an American Indian education committee to advise the
commissioner on administering certain programs, specifying certain duties and
membership requirements, sunset provision; including the unreimbursed cost of
providing behavioral management aides under a child's individual education plan
as part of the special education aid paid to the Minnesota state academies,
authorizing the retention of receipts received through mutual agreements for
school districts; modifying special education initial aid to include a certain
percentage of the salary for one-to-one behavioral management aides assigned to
a child attending the Minnesota state academy for the deaf or the Minnesota
state academy for the blind

ARTICLE 6 - SELF-SUFFICIENCY AND LIFELONG
LEARNING

Requiring school districts offering community education programs to
complete and file an annual program report to the department; modifying certain
grant limitation requirements to a single organization for adult basic education
supplemental service grants
(Ch. 310, 2008 - VETO)