1.1 	A bill for an act
1.2 	relating to education; changing the learning year
1.3 	record system from a pupil unit basis to a credit
1.4 	basis; amending Minnesota Statutes 2004, sections
1.5 	124D.128, subdivision 2; 126C.05, subdivision 8;
1.6 	126C.10, subdivision 2a.
1.7 	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.8 	Section 1. Minnesota Statutes 2004, section 124D.128,
1.9 	subdivision 2, is amended to read:
1.10 		Subd. 2.Commissioner designation.  (a) An area learning
1.11 	center designated by the state must be a site.  To be
1.12 	designated, a district or center must demonstrate to the
1.13 	commissioner that it will:
1.14 	(1) provide a program of instruction that permits pupils to
1.15 	receive instruction throughout the entire year; and
1.16 	(2) maintain a record system that, for purposes of section
1.17 	126C.05, permits identification of membership attributable to
1.18 	pupils participating in the program.  The record system and
1.19 	identification must ensure that the program will not have the
1.20 	effect of increasing the total number of ~~pupil units~~ credits 
1.21 	attributable to an individual pupil that are minimally required
1.22 	under section 120B.024 to meet state and local graduation
1.23 	requirements as a result of a learning year program.  The record
1.24 	system must include the date the pupil originally enrolled in a
1.25 	learning year program, the pupil's grade level, the date of each
1.26 	grade promotion, the average daily membership generated in each
2.1 	grade level, the number of credits or standards earned, and the
2.2 	number needed to graduate.
2.3 	(b) A student who has not completed a school district's
2.4 	graduation requirements may continue to enroll in courses the
2.5 	student must complete in order to graduate until the student
2.6 	satisfies the district's graduation requirements or the student
2.7 	is 21 years old, whichever comes first.
2.8 	
EFFECTIVE DATE. This section is effective July 1, 2005.

2.9 	Sec. 2. Minnesota Statutes 2004, section 126C.05,
2.10 	subdivision 8, is amended to read:
2.11 		Subd. 8.Average daily membership.  (a) Membership for
2.12 	pupils in grades kindergarten through 12 and for prekindergarten
2.13 	pupils with disabilities shall mean the number of pupils on the
2.14 	current roll of the school, counted from the date of entry until
2.15 	withdrawal.  The date of withdrawal shall mean the day the pupil
2.16 	permanently leaves the school or the date it is officially known
2.17 	that the pupil has left or has been legally excused.  However, a
2.18 	pupil, regardless of age, who has been absent from school for 15
2.19 	consecutive school days during the regular school year or for
2.20 	five consecutive school days during summer school or
2.21 	intersession classes of flexible school year programs without
2.22 	receiving instruction in the home or hospital shall be dropped
2.23 	from the roll and classified as withdrawn.  Nothing in this
2.24 	section shall be construed as waiving the compulsory attendance
2.25 	provisions cited in section 120A.22.  Average daily membership
2.26 	equals the sum for all pupils of the number of days of the
2.27 	school year each pupil is enrolled in the district's schools
2.28 	divided by the number of days the schools are in session.  Days
2.29 	of summer school or intersession classes of flexible school year
2.30 	programs are only included in the computation of membership for
2.31 	pupils with a disability not appropriately served primarily in
2.32 	the regular classroom.  A student must not be counted as more
2.33 	than ~~1.2~~ 1.5 pupils in average daily membership under this
2.34 	section.  When the initial total average daily membership
2.35 	exceeds ~~1.2~~ 1.5 for a pupil enrolled in more than one school
2.36 	district during the fiscal year, each district's average daily
3.1 	membership must be reduced proportionately.
3.2 	(b) A student must not be counted as more than one pupil in
3.3 	average daily membership except for purposes of section 126C.10,
3.4 	subdivision 2a.
3.5 	
EFFECTIVE DATE. This section is effective July 1, 2005.

3.6 	Sec. 3. Minnesota Statutes 2004, section 126C.10,
3.7 	subdivision 2a, is amended to read:
3.8 		Subd. 2a.Extended time revenue.  (a) A school district's
3.9 	extended time revenue is equal to the product of $4,601 and the
3.10 	sum of the adjusted marginal cost pupil units of the district
3.11 	for each pupil in average daily membership in excess of 1.0 and
3.12 	less than ~~1.2~~ 1.5 according to section 126C.05, subdivision 8.
3.13 	(b) A school district's extended time revenue may be used
3.14 	for extended day programs, extended week programs, summer
3.15 	school, and other programming authorized under the learning year
3.16 	program.
3.17 	
EFFECTIVE DATE. This section is effective July 1, 2005.