1.1 	A bill for an act
1.2 	relating to education; establishing a video resource grant program; appropriating 
1.3 	money.
1.4 	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.5 	Section 1. APPROPRIATION.
 1.6 		Subdivision 1.Department of Education. The sums indicated in this section are 
1.7 	appropriated from the general fund to the Department of Education for the fiscal years 
1.8 	designated.
1.9 		Subd. 2.Video resource grants. For a grant to the Minnesota Public Television 
1.10 	Association for professional development initiatives to provide prekindergarten through 
1.11 	grade 12 teachers with the necessary skills to effectively incorporate public television 
1.12 	video resources into classroom curriculum and instruction and to integrate regional arts, 
1.13 	culture, and history videos across the curriculum in order to increase student achievement:

1.14		$
	500,000
	.....
	2016
	
1.15		$
	500,000
	.....
	2017
	
1.16 	Public television stations eligible to receive grants under Minnesota Statutes, section 
1.17 	129D.12, subdivision 2, shall select teachers throughout the state to participate in training 
1.18 	sessions and to develop model lessons for identifying and integrating videos on regional 
1.19 	arts, culture, and history into prekindergarten through grade 12 curriculum and lesson plans.
1.20 	Any balance in the first year does not cancel, but is available in the second year.