Legislative Session number- 86

Bill Name: SF3373

Relating to education; providing for tiered teacher and principal licensure
process; establishing alternative teacher preparation programs and initial
license authorization; establishing factors determining issuing contracts to and
the mentoring process for probationary teachers; establishing the teacher
continuing tenure program; specifying districts role in providing support for
teachers' professional growth; establishing Minnesota teacher and principal
evaluation systems; authorizing the commissioner of education to directly
intervene in certain school districts and charter schools; instructing the board
of teaching to issue a report on the effectiveness of the alternative teacher
preparation program; authorizing the commissioner of education to have certain
rulemaking authority
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