Legislative Session number- 82

Bill Name: SF0866

(4)E Providing for early childhood through grade 12 education programs and
services ARTICLE 1- EARLY CHILDREN PROGRAMS Granting the commissioner of
children, families and learning sole authority over the consolidated funding
account; modifying the definitions of child care services and provider for child
care programs purposes; eliminating the authority of certain county and human
services boards to establish policies for payment of child care space for absent
children; delaying the date for annual state interagency coordinating council
recommendations to the governor and the commissioners of children, families and
learning, health, human services, commerce and economic security policies for a
comprehensive and coordinated interagency early childhood intervention system
and extending the expiration date of the council; authorizing the commissioner
of children, families and learning to adopt rules allowing community action
agencies, Indian reservations and migrant and seasonal farmworker organizations
to meet certain statutory responsibilities relating to financial assistance
ARTICLE 2 SELF-SUFFICIENCY AND LIFELONG LEARNING Eliminating the emergency
energy assistance, energy conservation and weatherization programs from a
certain provision excluding programs transferred from the department of economic
security to the department of children, families and learning from the
consolidated funding account; modifying the definition of transitional housing
relating to length of stay; extending the adult basic education programs audits
schedule of the commissioner of children, families and learning; repealing
certain transitional housing program location requirements ARTICLE 3 GENERAL
EDUCATIONModifying the annual reporting requirement of school superintendents
relating to the basic standards test; modifying the date for computation and
establishment by the department of children, families and learning of the cost
per pupil of textbooks, individualized instructional or cooperative learning
materials, standardized tests and health and guidance and counseling services
for allotment purposes; specifying a certain school district general education
aid recognition requirement under certain tax settlement revenue excess
conditions; modifying the calculation of pupil units for prekindergarten pupils
with a disability; maintaining the supplemental revenue allowance and
eliminating the required reduction; modifying the referendum revenue allowance
formula and stabilizing the referendum equalization levy; eliminating certain
school district general education revenue building allocations reporting
requirements; modifying school district judgment levy authority; modifying the
recordkeeping requirement of school districts relating to identification of
transported students for aid distribution purposes; making optional the
requirement for the commissioner of children, families and learning to reduce
state aid for violation of law, authorizing withholding in lieu of reduction and
expanding the list of violations to using funds contrary to the statutory
purpose, providing for hearing and appeal of the final decision of the
commissioner; eliminating the estimated net general fund savings for aid
adjustments due to changes in employer retirement contribution rates; extending
the availability of certain prior appropriations to the commissioner for
sparsity correction and special education cross subsidy revenue; repealing the
authority of the commissioner to approve pupil enrollment in a nonresident
district, the definition of average salary for beginning teachers, the
supplemental revenue reduction, certain school district referendum authority,
cooperation revenue and certain aid reduction requirements relating to the levy
revenue recognition change ARTICLE 4 EDUCATION EXCELLENCERequiring school boards
offering licensed teachers the opportunity for more staff development training
and additional salary to extend the school calendar; requiring and providing for
school boards adoption of early reading assessment processes and intervention
methods for students identified in the assessment process as needing
intervention and requiring school districts to identify staff development needs
for reading instruction programs implementation purposes; eliminating the
authority of school districts to offer the test of basic requirements in
reading, math and writing to students in grade ; requiring the board of teaching
to adopt rules requiring licensed teachers renewing continuing licenses to
include in renewal requirements further preparation in the application of
comprehensive, scientifically based and balanced reading instruction programs
and providing for the licensure of reading specialists, requiring board approved
teacher preparation programs for elementary education teachers to require
instruction in the application of the reading instruction programs; restricting
the authority of the board to require tests of pedagogical knowledge or
licensure specific teaching skills as a condition of licensure; eliminating the
requirement for alternative teacher preparation programs to be affiliated with a
post-secondary institution, requiring the board to permit demonstration of
licensure competence in school based and other nontraditional pathways;
requiring confirmation of background checks for nonlicensed community experts
employed by school districts or charter schools; providing for alternative
competency based licensing for school administrators; providing opportunities
for additional staff development days for teachers, specifying certain contract
terms and conditions requirements; authorizing school boards and exclusive
representatives of school principals to negotiate a plan for a probationary
period for internally hired principals; clarifying certain teacher discharge or
demotion hearing procedures and expanding school board notice requirements;
changing the teachers of color program to the multicultural educators program;
simplifying procedures for desegregation district transfers, applying
nonresident pupil enrollment limits under the enrollment options (open
enrollment) program to the transfers; expanding the purposes of charter schools
and eliminating a certain provision placing the burden of proof for conversion
to a charter school of a school scheduled for closure on the charter school
applicant; making optional the requirement for the commissioner to sponsor
authorized charter schools and specifying certain audit compliance requirements;
modifying the definition of pupil of limited English proficiency; expanding
eligibility for Indian scholarships and modifying certain financial aid
requirements; broadening the scope of the office of desegregation integration to
nonmetropolitan school districts and sunsetting the office advisory board;
extending the expiration date for the state multicultural education advisory
committee; increasing the maximum number of students allowed to be accepted at
the Perpich center for the arts high school; authorizing an extended teacher
contract period by mutual agreement of the school board and exclusive
representatives; authorizing independent school district 238, Mabel-Canton to
permanently begin the school year before Labor Day; authorizing the commissioner
to adopt, amend or repeal rules relating to the licensure of school
administrative personnel and to amend certain rules for state graduation
requirements using the expedited process, requiring the commissioner to include
a personal and family financial management and investment content standard;
requiring the commissioner to report the recommendations responding to the
achieve report for the revised profile of learning content standards and
learning areas to the legislature by a certain date; requiring a Minnesota state
high school league report to the legislature by a certain date on the interest
of charter school students in participating in athletic activities; requiring
the commissioner to develop a process to allow students to take the basic skills
test beginning in grade 5; repealing a certain rule providing for individual
student progress under the LEP program ARTICLE 5 SPECIAL PROGRAMSAuthorizing
counties operating child care assistance programs to disseminate data on program
participants, applicants and providers to the commissioner of children, families
and learning, classifying data on individuals collected by the commissioner for
programs administration purposes; requiring school districts to establish and
implement procedures for the accurate and timely transfer of educational records
to education facilities; requiring the commissioner to grant nonrenewable
temporary certificates to school districts for persons not yet attaining a
current applicable transliterator certificate under certain conditions;
providing for special education representation on the state interagency
coordinating committee; requiring and providing for joint responsibility of
school and county boards to coordinate, provide and pay for appropriate services
for disabled children; modifying the qualification requirements of hearing
review officers and the reimbursement requirement under special instruction and
services agreements; specifying authorized care and treatment facilities for
children without disabilities; expanding the definition of essential personnel
to cultural liaisons and special education paraprofessionals and clericals for
special education revenue eligibility purposes and modifying the special
education base revenue formula; expanding child maltreatment reporting
requirements to school personnel relating to acts occurring in school facilities
or school zones, requiring board or other licensing entity reports to the
department of children, families and learning, granting the commissioner access
to educational and law enforcement data for investigation purposes, prescribing
a procedure for commissioner collection of data and assessment or investigation
of reports, regulating confidentiality and disclosure, granting liability
immunity to department employees relating to investigations of maltreatment
reports and requiring the commissioner to inform the ombudsman for mental health
and mental retardation of reports of maltreatment occurring in schools ARTICLE 6
FACILITIES AND TECHNOLOGYIncluding nonpublic schools under bleacher safety
certification requirements; expanding cooperative secondary facilities grants
eligibility to consolidating schools; increasing the dollar thresholds for
commissioner of children, families and learning review and comment before
building construction and modifying certain school district plan submittal and
proposal content requirements; repealing the requirement for the commissioner to
provide review and comment on indoor air qualityARTICLE 7 LIBRARIESExtending the
expiration date of the Minnesota library for the blind and physically
handicapped advisory committee; repealing certain rules providing for public
library construction grants ARTICLE 8 ADVISORY COMMITTEES AND MISCELLANEOUS K-12
EDUCATION PROVISIONSModifying American Indian education committee appointment
and membership requirements, eliminating multiple committees, expanding advice
requirements, authorizing multiple subcommittees and extending the expiration
date; sunsetting the permanent school fund advisory committee; repealing the
authority of the commissioner of children, families and learning to approve
pupil enrollment in a nonresident districtARTICLE 9 - CURRICULUM AND ASSESSMENT
Eliminating the stated purpose of violence prevention curriculum and the
authority of the department of children, families and learning to provide
assistance at neutral sites to nonpublic schools participating in the programs;
repealing the instruction and curriculum advisory committee, the authority of
schools to establish building teams to develop and implement education
effectiveness plans, the requirement for school districts to evaluate
constituency satisfaction for inclusion in the annual report and the endowed
chair program ARTICLE 10 - STUDENT RIGHTS, RESPONSIBILITIES AND
BEHAVIOREliminating certain content requirements for school zone dangerous
weapon incidents reports and the requirement for the commissioner of children,
families and learning to develop an alternative reporting format and reducing
the frequency requirement for the reports; eliminating certain specific
schoolAmerican flag display requirements; clarifying certain school children
immunization requirements, requiring immunization statements to include the day
of receipt of each additional immunization and eliminating certain requirements
suspension authority of the commissioner of health; requiring school districts
to adopt a process for addressing chemical abuse problem reports and eliminating
certain specific requirements of school chemical abuse preassessment and school
and community advisory teams; modifying the requirement to wear industrial
quality eye protective devices; clarifying a certain provision providing for
school safety patrols, eliminating the option for patrol members to wear
fluorescent reflective vests; eliminating the requirement for the commissioner
to encourage and assist school districts to cooperatively establish alternative
educational services for pupils dismissed from school for dangerous, disruptive
or violent behavior; eliminating certain school board hazing policy
requirements; repealing the requirements for school boards to submit copies of
harassment or violence policies to the commissioner and to provide flags and
staffs for each district school building and the purpose statement for early
childhood health and developmental screening ARTICLE 11 - TEACHERS AND OTHER
EDUCATORSEliminating certain mandates relating to the register of licensed
persons kept by the board of teaching; eliminating athletic coaches from the
definition of supervisory personnel; eliminating the requirement for teachers to
pay for requested copies of evaluations and files; requiring the scheduling of
teacher duty free lunch periods by negotiated agreement; modifying a certain
provision providing for the termination of coaches; eliminating the limit on the
number of eligible teachers allowed to be employed as teacher residents;
changing the term practice teachers to student teachers; eliminating the
requirement for the board to consult with the teacher mentoring task force on
approval or disapproval of teacher mentorship program applications; changing the
designated state official from the commissioner of children, families and
learning to the executive secretary of the board of teaching under the
interstate agreement on qualifications of educational personnel and requiring
records of contracts under the agreement to be kept on file in the office of the
board of teaching instead of the office of the commissioner of children,
families and learning; specifying certain renumbering and cross reference change
instructions to the revisor of statutes; repealing a certain provision allowing
the licensing of general teachers as teachers of English as a second language
(ESL) courses, certain qualification requirements for assessment professionals,
the license and degree exemption for head varsity coaches, a certain requirement
for school boards and exclusive representatives of teachers to jointly develop a
probationary teacher peer review process, certain provisions providing for
general control of schools, teacher centers and the administrators academy and
prohibiting the payment of wages to teachers delinquent in making certain
reports and the purpose for research on program effectiveness ARTICLE 12 -
SCHOOL DISTRICTS; FORMS FOR ORGANIZING Modifying the program focus for area
learning centers; repealing the requirements for the centers to serve as
resource centers to provide certain hours of instruction, the purpose statement
relating to the establishment of education districts and certain school district
cooperation and combination provisions ARTICLE 13 - SCHOOL DISTRICT POWERS AND
DUTIESClarifying the general authority of school district boards and eliminating
the separate requirement for school boards to provide free textbooks to pupils;
eliminating certain school site decision making team membership and agreement
content requirements, requiring school districts to provide certain notice to
parents relating to the teams and eliminating certain duties of the commissioner
of children, families and learning; eliminating the authority of school boards
to enter into agreements with post-secondary institutions for secondary or
post-secondary nonsectarian courses and certain duties of superintendents;
clarifying certain duties and authority of school principals;clarifying the
authority of school boards to charge part time student fees; eliminating certain
inventory requirements for instructional materials loaned to nonpublic schools;
modifying school building fire safety inspection requirements; modifying certain
school bus safety training requirements for students, eliminating certain
competency demonstration requirements and a certain provision encouraging
districts to use the model policy; repealing certain school board powers
relating to the removal of unauthorized vehicles, the acceptance of gifts,
library facilities, summer school classes, services for Indians, school lunches,
payment of medical insurance premiums for early retirees, education site
achievement contracts, imprest cash funds and agricultural education, the policy
relating to aid to nonpublic students, certain provisions imposing certain
penalties for school district employee or county auditor failure to perform
certain duties, the use of school buildings, advertising on school buses and
requiring school boards to visit schools and certain transportation provisions
ARTICLE 14 - EDUCATION PROGRAMSClarifying and modifying the requirement for
school boards to provide kindergarten instruction; modifying the enrollment
options (open enrollment) program application process; eliminating the
counseling services, advanced student notice and certain credit requirements
under the post-secondary enrollment options (PSEO) program; changing charter
school purposes to expected outcomes and eliminating certain mandates for
department of children, families and learning review and comment on performance
evaluations and dissemination of certain information; modifying certain
provisions relating to the school breakfast and milk programs; modifying the
mandatory components of the family connections program, requiring the
commissioner of children, families and learning approval of school district
plans and applications for family connections aid; modifying the purpose of the
youth entrepreneurship education program and of the Minnesota youth works act
and certain youth works grant provisions and training and education
requirements; modifying certain provisions relating to the education and
employment transitions system and the comprehensive youth apprenticeship program
and clarifying certain provisions relating to service learning programs;
expanding the authorized sites for the provision of limited English proficiency
(LEP) programs to nonpublic students, location to be a school district decision;
eliminating the specified program options under American Indian language and
culture education programs; eliminating the office of desegregation integration
in the department and transferring related duties to the commissioner;
eliminating the requirement for state multicultural education advisory committee
participation in cross cultural initiatives grants criteria determination and
award; eliminating the stated purpose of the Minnesota academic excellence
foundation and modifying certain program requirements; specifying certain
renumbering and cross reference change instructions to the revisor of statutes;
repealing certain school board authority relating to secondary school programs,
certain flexible learning year, service and work based learning, limited English
proficiency and parental involvement programs provisions, the length of school
year requirement for charter schools, a certain youth works grant priority
requirement, certain responsibilities of the governor's workforce development
council under the education and employment transitions system, the purposes of
the first grade preparedness, school breakfast and graduation incentives
programs and metropolitan magnet school grants, the policy statement under the
American Indian education act, a certain exception to Indian education grant
requirements, the authority of charter schools to participate in the school
enrichment partnership program and the Minnesota local partnership act ARTICLE
15 - EDUCATION AND TECHNOLOGYEliminating certain references to computerized
under the state information system and certain provisions relating to
telecommunication access grants to school districts; repealing the state goals
for technological advances in education, the requirements for the department of
children, families and learning to maintain a current annual data acquisition
calendar and to develop and operate a computerized data system, the authority of
the department to provide by delegation of powers and duties for implementation
and technical support of a computerized information reporting system and the
grant program for regional clearinghouses for improving education technology
ARTICLE 16 - EDUCATION FUNDING Clarifying the pupil unit count for school
districts relating to certain adult students; eliminating certain alternative
referendum date provisions; modifying the state policy on education funding
ARTICLE 17 - STATE ADMINISTRATION OF EDUCATION Eliminating the authority of the
commissioner of children, families and learning to appoint deputy commissioners
and clarifying the general authority of the commissioner; eliminating certain
recommendations and audit reporting requirements of the commissioner ARTICLE 18
- PERPICH CENTER FOR ARTS EDUCATION Modifying certain powers and duties of the
board of the Perpich center for arts education ARTICLE 12 - REPEAL OF
RULESRepealing certain rules relating to a certain community based education
option, certain transportation and financial reporting requirements and
determination of the school aid formula training and experience index (ja)