1.1 	A bill for an act
1.2 	relating to education finance; appropriating money for the collaborative urban 
1.3 	educator program; requiring a report.
1.4 	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.5 	Section 1. APPROPRIATIONS; COLLABORATIVE URBAN EDUCATOR 
1.6 	PROGRAM.
 1.7 		Subdivision 1.Commissioner of education. The sums indicated in this section are 
1.8 	appropriated from the general fund to the commissioner of education for the fiscal years 
1.9 	designated.
1.10 		Subd. 2.Collaborative urban educator. For the collaborative urban educator grant 
1.11 	program:

1.12		$
	1,000,000
	.....
	2020
	
1.13		$
	1,000,000
	.....
	2021
	
1.14 	Grants are awarded in equal amounts: $250,000 each year to the Southeast Asian Teacher 
1.15 	program at Concordia University, St. Paul; $250,000 each year to the Collaborative Urban 
1.16 	Educator program at the University of St. Thomas; $250,000 each year to the Center for 
1.17 	Excellence in Urban Teaching at Hamline University; and $250,000 each year to the East 
1.18 	Africa Student to Teacher program at Augsburg College.
1.19 	Any balance in the first year does not cancel but is available in the second year.
1.20 	Each institution must prepare for the legislature by January 15 of each year a detailed 
1.21 	report of the funds used. The report must include the number of teachers produced as well 
1.22 	as the diversity for each cohort of teachers produced.