1st Engrossment - 82nd Legislature (2001 - 2002) Posted on 12/15/2009 12:00am
1.1 A bill for an act 1.2 relating to education; modifying the state's 1.3 educational policy; amending Minnesota Statutes 2000, 1.4 section 124D.10, subdivision 1. 1.5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: 1.6 Section 1. Minnesota Statutes 2000, section 124D.10, 1.7 subdivision 1, is amended to read: 1.8 Subdivision 1. [PURPOSES.](a)The purpose of this section 1.9 is to: 1.10 (1) improve pupil learning; 1.11 (2) increase learning opportunities for pupils; 1.12 (3) encourage the use of different and innovative teaching 1.13 methods; 1.14 (4) require the measurement of learning outcomes and create 1.15 different and innovative forms of measuring outcomes; 1.16 (5) establish new forms of accountability for schools;or1.17 (6) create new professional opportunities for teachers, 1.18 including the opportunity to be responsible for the learning 1.19 program at the school site; 1.20 (7) test new and more accountable, results-based forms of 1.21 oversight and accountability for schools; 1.22 (8) focus state oversight on the role of sponsors of 1.23 charter schools; or 1.24 (9) encourage school boards to make full use of the 1.25 opportunities provided by this section. 2.1(b) This section does not provide a means to keep open a2.2school that otherwise would be closed. Applicants in these2.3circumstances bear the burden of proving that conversion to a2.4charter school fulfills a purpose specified in this subdivision,2.5independent of the school's closing.