1.1 	A bill for an act
1.2 	relating to education; appropriating money for
1.3 	comprehensive family life and sexuality education
1.4 	programs.
1.5 	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.6 	Section 1. APPROPRIATIONS.
 1.7 		Subdivision 1.Department of education. The sums
1.8 	indicated in this section are appropriated from the general fund
1.9 	to the Department of Education for the fiscal years designated.
1.10 		Subd. 2.Comprehensive family life and sexuality
1.11 	education programs. For comprehensive family life and sexuality
1.12 	education program grants:
1.13 	$..............2006 
1.14 	$..............2007 
1.15 	$....... each year is available for grants to no more than
1.16 	eight school districts, or school districts in partnership with
1.17 	either local public health agencies or nonprofit organizations,
1.18 	taking into account geographical balance, to serve as regional
1.19 	training sites to assist the department in providing training
1.20 	for teachers, parents, and community members in the development
1.21 	of comprehensive family life and sexuality education curriculum
1.22 	or services and in planning for monitoring and evaluation
1.23 	activities; resource staff persons to provide expert training,
1.24 	curriculum development and implementation, and evaluation
1.25 	services; and issues management and policy development training
2.1 	for school boards, superintendents, principals, and
2.2 	administrators across the state; and model programs to promote
2.3 	innovation and to recognize outstanding performance and promote
2.4 	replication of demonstrably effective strategies.
2.5 	$....... each year is available for contracts with up to
2.6 	two school districts in partnership with either local public
2.7 	health agencies or nonprofit organizations to serve as statewide
2.8 	resources for training teachers, parents, and community members
2.9 	in the development of comprehensive family life and sexuality
2.10 	education curriculum or services and in planning, monitoring,
2.11 	and evaluation activities; resource staff persons to provide
2.12 	expert training, curriculum development and implementation, and
2.13 	evaluation services; educational activities to promote and
2.14 	coordinate community, parent, and youth involvement in
2.15 	communities identified as having high need for comprehensive
2.16 	family life and sexuality education; issues management and
2.17 	policy development training for school boards, superintendents,
2.18 	principals, and administrators across the state; and assistance
2.19 	with evaluation.
2.20 	Any balance in the first year does not cancel but is
2.21 	available in the second year.