1.1 	A bill for an act
1.2 	relating to education finance; appropriating money for tribal education liaisons.
1.3 	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.4 	Section 1. APPROPRIATION.
 1.5 		Subdivision 1.Department of Education. The sums indicated in this section are 
1.6 	appropriated from the general fund to the commissioner of education for the fiscal year 
1.7 	designated.
1.8 		Subd. 2.Tribal education liaisons. For a grant to the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe 
1.9 	to hire tribal education liaisons to work in Leech Lake-area school districts to address 
1.10 	truancy and other issues in an effort to close the achievement gap in American Indian 
1.11 	students served by those districts:

1.12 | | $ | 500,000 | ....... | 2017
1.13 	Any balance in the first year does not cancel but is available in the second year. The 
1.14 	base appropriation for the next biennium is $500,000 each year.