Legislative Session number- 83

Bill Name: SF1211

E Providing for kindergarten through grade 12 education policy; + modifying the
definition of middle school; eliminating the annual school board +calendar
additional student instruction or staff development days requirement;+ removing
references to diseases under the sexually transmitted infections risk prevention
and reduction program; authorizing the board of teaching +to issue lifetime
qualified short call substitute teaching licenses; requiring+ school district or
charter school verification of teacher licenses; imposing+ an annual deadline
for evaluation of probationary teachers, failure to comply +to extend the
probationary period of the teacher, further failure to result in +automatic
renewal of the teacher contract, financial limits exceptions; +modifying certain
school district educational improvement plan component requirements, +requiring
substantial teacher participation in developing the plans; +establishing
principled pay practices for adoption by school districts to provide +incentives
to attract and retain high quality teachers and specifying +eligibility for
principled pay practices aid and appropriating money to the +commissioner of
children, families and learning for payment of the aid; modifying +certain
requirements for the payment of premiums for health insurance +coverage for
teachers on extended leaves of absence; providing for improved +student access
to licensed student support services to improve educational +achievement, to
provide for student safety and to enhance student physical, emotional+ and
social well being; modifying the timeline for the first meeting of +school
boards after an election; requiring school district health and safety+ and
alternative facilities bonding and levy program plans to include a +review of
the certain project guidelines established by the departments of +administration
and commerce for use under certain cost effectiveness conditions; +authorizing
certain nonprofit corporations to sponsor charter schools under +certain
conditions and limiting teacher leaves to teach in the schools; +providing for
the establishment of on line learning courses, specifying student +eligibility
requirements and enrolled and serving school districts +responsibilities,
providing for on line course revenue for districts and for districts +offering
courses to private school students and establishing a process for +payment of
the revenue by the department of children, families and learning and +requiring
the department to establish procedures for reviewing and certifying +serving
districts offering the courses; requiring the state high school +league to adopt
a policy on corporate sponsorships and similar agreements; +authorizing school
district employers to enter agreements with exclusive bargaining representatives
of members of the teachers retirement association +(TRA) for payment of employee
contributions, requiring a sunset of eligibility +in the agreements; authorizing
independent school district #709, Duluth to +by resolution reduce the number of
at large school board members; +establishing a pilot project in independent
school district #535, Rochester and +certain additional districts selected by
the commissioner to waive certain +specific special education requirements on
the quality and cost effectiveness +of instructional services and educational
outcomes; requiring the office+ of education accountability at the university of
Minnesota to conduct a +study on the amount of student contact time to be
considered a minimum +requirement for students taking on line courses and report
findings to the +legislature by a certain date and requiring the commissioner to
establish statewide +testing recommendations for students enrolled in the
courses; appropriating +money to the commissioner for on line course revenue for
districts offering +courses to private school students and for the payment of
principled pay +practices aid; repealing the alternative teacher compensation
system and certain +provisions prohibiting the state high school league from
entering into certain +commercial relationships, subjecting the league to
certain budget preparation +requirements and authorizing the league board to
request the state board of +investment to invest nonretirement funds of the
league (ja)