SF 1155

as introduced - 84th Legislature (2005 - 2006) Posted on 12/15/2009 12:00am

A bill for an act
relating to education; enabling sixth through eighth
grade girls and boys to receive self-defense and
conflict resolution training; requiring a model
curriculum; amending Minnesota Statutes 2004, section
120B.021, subdivision 1.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

Section 1.

Minnesota Statutes 2004, section 120B.021,
subdivision 1, is amended to read:

Subdivision 1.

Required academic standards.

The
following subject areas are required for statewide
accountability:

(1) language arts;

(2) mathematics;

(3) science;

(4) social studies, including history, geography,
economics, and government and citizenship;

(5) health and physical education, for which locally
developed academic standards new text begin , including self-defense and
conflict resolution training for sixth through eighth grade
girls and boys among other standards, new text end apply; and

(6) the arts, for which statewide or locally developed
academic standards apply, as determined by the school district.
Public elementary and middle schools must offer at least three
and require at least two of the following four arts areas:
dance; music; theater; and visual arts. Public high schools
must offer at least three and require at least one of the
following five arts areas: media arts; dance; music; theater;
and visual arts.

The commissioner must submit proposed standards in science
and social studies to the legislature by February 1, 2004.

For purposes of applicable federal law, the academic standards
for language arts, mathematics, and science apply to all public
school students, except the very few students with extreme
cognitive or physical impairments for whom an individualized
education plan team has determined that the required academic
standards are inappropriate. An individualized education plan
team that makes this determination must establish alternative
standards.

A school district, no later than the 2007-2008 school year,
must adopt graduation requirements that meet or exceed state
graduation requirements established in law or rule. A school
district that incorporates these state graduation requirements
before the 2007-2008 school year must provide students who enter
the 9th grade in or before the 2003-2004 school year the
opportunity to earn a diploma based on existing locally
established graduation requirements in effect when the students
entered the 9th grade. District efforts to develop, implement,
or improve instruction or curriculum as a result of the
provisions of this section must be consistent with sections
120B.10, 120B.11, and 120B.20.

new text begin EFFECTIVE DATE. new text end

new text begin This section is effective for the
2007-2008 school year and later.
new text end

Sec. 2. new text begin MODEL CURRICULUM.
new text end

new text begin The commissioner of education must develop and transmit to
school districts a model physical education curriculum that
includes providing sixth through eighth grade girls and boys
with self-defense and conflict resolution training.
new text end

new text begin EFFECTIVE DATE. new text end

new text begin This section is effective the day
following final enactment and applies to the 2007-2008 school
year and later.
new text end