Legislative Session number- 88

Bill Name: SF1889

1E Providing for education policy and technical modifications

ARTICLE 1 -
GENERAL EDUCATION

Clarifying district transportation requirements for a child
with a disability to an early care and education program; allowing a foster home
student to return to the school last attended without the approval needed under
the enrollment options program

ARTICLE 2 - EDUCATION EXCELLENCE

Modifying
educational data requirements as part of participation in the statewide
longitudinal education data system (SLEDS) on remedial instruction, establishing
a review cycle for the academic standards and related benchmarks; modifying
elective standards and further recognizing students' proficiency in languages in
addition to English; modifying area learning center provisions; modifying
certain enrollment options program provisions; removing a certain requirement
for nonresident district application and procedures; changing desegregation to
achievement and integration; requiring school district lotteries for available
seats placement and allowing sibling priority; excluding special education
services from decision basis standards for application acceptance or rejection;
expanding the use of career and technical education revenue for equipment
purchases; requiring certain additional information in the annual report from
the Minnesota P-20 education partnership report; directing the Minnesota state
colleges and universities (MnSCU) chancellor to review the specific competencies
a kindergarten through grade 12 student masters in attaining a bilingual seal,
multilingual seal, world language proficiency certificate, or world language
proficiency high achievement certificate and determine the course and credit
equivalencies for each certificate or seal; repealing certain provisions
relating to student academic achievement and growth improving schools reporting
and reserved revenue requirement for career teacher staff development

ARTICLE
3 - SPECIAL PROGRAMS

Removing certain obsolete language and updating certain
provisions relating to the state interagency committee, interagency early
intervention committees, school and county board responsibilities for
coordinating services for eligible children ages 3 to 21, special instruction
for children with a disability, individualized education programs, community
transition interagency committee, interagency early intervention committees, and
cross-subsidy annual reporting; directing the commissioner of education to use
the expedited rulemaking process to make the rule changes recommended by the
Special Education Case Load and Rule Alignment Task Force in its February 2014
report; repealing certain obsolete language

ARTICLE 4 -
NUTRITION

Conforming school district food service accounting requirements;
authorizing participants in any federal child nutrition program to donate unused
food to qualifying food shelf programs

ARTICLE 5 - EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION,
SELF-SUFFICIENCY, AND LIFELONG LEARNING

Clarifying funding for alternative
programs; expanding early learning scholarship family eligibility; and
establishing a due date for an evaluation report of the early learning
scholarships

ARTICLE 6 - LIBRARIES

Allowing the commissioner to grant
exceptions to the minimum open hours requirement of regional public library
systems under certain conditions

ARTICLE 7 - 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

ARTICLE 8 - INTERSTATE COMPACT ON
EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY FOR MILITARY CHILDREN

"Interstate Compact on
Educational Opportunity for Military Children"; providing for adoption of the
compact; requiring a military-connected youth identifier and classifying
data

ARTICLE 9 - UNSESSION CHANGES

Removing redundant, obsolete and
superseded provisions; modifying certain provisions relating to the motorcycle
safety education program and the state advisory council on early childhood
education and care; specifying instructions to the revisor of
statutes

ARTICLE 10 - UNSESSION CONFORMING CHANGES

Making certain
conforming changes
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