Legislative Session number- 88

Bill Name: SF0767

2E Relating education

ARTICLE 1 - EARLY CHILDHOOD THROUGH GRADE 12
EDUCATION

Modifying provisions requiring sharing of data relating to acts of
violence or sexual contact with a student by school personnel and the alternate
programs reserve revenue; authorizing and providing for district joint powers
cooperative facility operation; clarifying certain district debt service
principal and interest payments; modifying school district construction review,
comment and information requirements, levy recognition, the postsecondary
enrollment options (PSEO) program, and charter school general education
revenue; increasing the national school lunch program participant state
reimbursement for reduced-price lunches; specifying lunch availability without
charge to participating students qualifying for free or reduced-price meals;
encouraging a policy of same lunch availability without regard to payment
ability; modifying early childhood family education (ECFE) program components,
the home visiting program, district advisory councils, program data submission
requirements, program supervision, ECFE revenue, scholarships, and reporting;
allowing parenting education transition programming; modifying adult basic
education supplemental service grants, aid, and revenue; modifying the English
learner (EL) definition and revenue, initial achievement and integration
revenue, and incentive revenue; establishing individualized education programs
online reporting; clarifying general education revenue and referendum
equalization aid; modifying special education aid, cross subsidy reduction aid,
out-of-state tuition, learning year pupil units, extended time revenue,
declining enrollment revenue, operating capital levy, equity revenue, regional
and district equity gaps, equity region, alternative teacher compensation
revenue, referendum aid guarantee, referendum revenue, board-approved referendum
allowance, lease levy, safe schools levy, taconite payments, and certain
reporting requirements; authorizing the Perpich center for the arts education
board to establish and operate an interdistrict integration magnet program and
authorizing the board to operate the Crosswinds school; modifying existing
appropriations for general education aid, early childhood literacy programs,
special education paperwork cost savings, school lunch, school readiness, early
childhood education scholarships, the parent-child home program, adult basic
education aid, and the Minnesota state academies; specifying 2015 lease levy
authority; clarifying the transfer of the Harambee community school from the
joint powers district #6067, east metro integration district, to independent
school district #623, Roseville; allowing information technology certification
partnerships; authorizing independent school district #196, Rosemount-Apple
Valley-Eagan to lease a satellite transportation hub; requiring the commissioner
of education to report to the legislature on student's experience and the status
of physical education in K-12 schools; exempting Independent school district
#402, Hendricks from the general reciprocity agreement; authorizing joint powers
district #6067, East Metro integration district, to transfer any personal and
real property to the Perpich center for arts education; creating a vision
therapy pilot project in certain elementary grades; appropriating money for
grants to the Saint Paul promise neighborhood and the Northside achievement
zone; appropriating money to the department of education for the headwaters
science center, the works museum, northwestern online college in the high school
program, information technology certification partnerships, grants for vision
therapy pilot project, and College Possible for coaching and mentoring programs;
repealing a consultation requirements for review and comment for school district
construction

ARTICLE 2 - FORECAST ADJUSTMENTS

Making forecast adjustments
for existing appropriations for enrollment options transportation, abatement
revenue, consolidation transition, nonpublic pupil education aid and
transportation, career and technical aid, achievement and integration aid,
literary incentive aid, interdistrict desegregation or integration
transportation grants, success for the future, tribal contract schools,
alternative compensation, charter school building lease aid, regular special
education, aid for children with disabilities, travel for home-based services,
special education excess costs, health and safety revenue, debt service
equalization, alternative facilities bonding aid, deferred maintenance aid,
school breakfast, kindergarten milk, basic system support, library systems,
health and developmental screening aid, community education aid, and adults with
disabilities program aid

ARTICLE 3 - ENGLISH LEARNERS

Modifying education
provisions to enhance and further English learning for English learner (EL)
students; requiring teachers to have English language development and content
instruction for EL students; requiring renewing licensed teachers to have
further English language development preparation; requiring administrator,
continuing education, and teacher candidate preparation programs to include
instructions on meeting needs of EL students; requiring teacher candidate
instruction in student native language use as a teaching resource; requiring
license renewal to include varied needs of EL learners; requiring bilingual and
English as a second language (ESL) teachers to include certain instruction for
EL students; requiring school readiness, student measurements, and adult basic
education to include English literacy, language skills, and English language
proficiency and development; repealing a bilingual and English as a second
language (ES) teacher employment provision
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