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Requiring behavioral health insurance coverage for children and young adults
with autism spectrum disorders (ASD); defining certain terms; specifying parity
requirements and coverage specifications; creating an autism spectrum disorder
task force, specifying membership requirements and duties; requiring the
legislative coordinating commission (LCC) to provide administrative and fiscal
services to the task force and requiring the departments of education and health
to provide certain additional assistance; requiring a report to the legislature
by a certain date
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Extending rulemaking authority of the board of school administrators to reflect
changes in duties, responsibilities and roles of school administrators
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Bill TextTICLE 1 - GENERAL EDUCATION Modifying certain school district levy recognition; modifying general education levy aid; reducing general education aid to cooperative member school districts failing to meet federal special education maintenance of effort; allowing referendum market value to determine district state aid adjustment abatement; specifying instructions to the revisor of statutes; repealing the specific enrollment options in nonresident districts ARTICLE 2 - EDUCATION EXCELLENCE Requiring charter and nonpublic schools to transfer student records to student school of residence, requiring inclusion of form disciplinary actions in records transfer; requiring school district to adopt gifted and talented students acceleration policies and procedures; modifying secondary students state graduation test (academic standard) requirements, highly qualified teacher definition for purposes of the [...] show full description |
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Relating to education; requiring school performance report cards to indicate
student to teacher ratios; defining classroom teacher; providing for class size
reduction measurement and reporting; requiring the commissioner of education to
establish target class size ratios, specifying certain class size ratios under
certain conditions; requiring the commissioner to collect district by district
class size information to determine districts class size ratios and compare the
ratios to the target class size ratios and post the results on the department
Web site; requiring the commissioner to submit an annual report to the
legislature by a certain date
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Establishing the position of statewide hearing loss early education intervention
coordinator in the department of education, prescribing duties, requiring
collaboration with various state offices and agencies; appropriating money to
the commissioner of education
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1E Relating to education; requiring the commissioner of education to provide for
an earth and space, life and physical sciences assessment in grades 10 through
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Establishing a pilot program to explore the development of a regional center for
visual arts in the metropolitan area to be offered to secondary school students;
specifying certain eligibility, application and grant award requirements;
requiring a report to the legislature by a certain date; appropriating money to
the commissioner of education
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Allowing educational data sharing between the department of education and the
office of higher education as authorized by the code of federal regulations for
the purpose of analyzing and improving school district instruction
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1E Requiring advisory staff development committee for teacher education and
training to add to and modify the goals included in their staff development plan
for improving student achievement; modifying staff development revenue
allocation to include higher education courses and programs in a teachers area
of licensure
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Relating to education; authorizing and providing for full participation in
extracurricular activities by charter school students residing in the district
under certain conditions; specifying certain advance notice requirements of the
students relating to intent to participate and certain information transmission
duties of the charter schools; authorizing school boards to charge the charter
schools for certain extracurricular activities and transportation costs and to
charge certain student fees
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Establishing a pilot program to provide educational support to families with
adolescents, specifying issues to be addressed in the program, authorizing
school districts, charter schools, intermediate school districts and other
interested community based education organizations to apply to the commissioner
of education, requiring commissioner recipient determination, requring the
commissioner to provide for participating programs evaluation, appropriating
money to the commissioner of education
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Establishing a teachers of color financial aid pilot program under the
supervision of the office of higher education, specifying eligibility; allowing
partnerships between public institutions and school districts and requiring
partnerships between Winona state university and independent school district
#535, Rochester and St. Cloud state university and independent school district
#281, Robbinsdale; allowing expenditures for program promotion, appropriating
money for the teachers of color financial aid pilot program
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Relating to education finance; extending funding opportunities for contract
alternative schools; appropriating money to the commissioner of education for
payment of contract alternative referendum aid and contract alternative lease
aid
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Increasing funding for special education program growth factors
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Bill TextRelating to education; establishing and providing for an induction program for new teachers to assist newly licensed elementary and secondary teachers with initial teaching assignments involving teaching in a high need subject area or public school; defining high need subject area; specifying certain duties of regional education services providers, including education service cooperatives, school districts, postsecondary institutions, charters schools and other qualified education entities participating in the program for assisting school districts, charter schools, school sites and intermediate school districts in supporting newly licensed teachers; specifying certain applicant qualification and program content requirements; requiring commissioner of education program funding approval; providing for staff development revenues to develop the program plan; specifying certain annual reporting requirements and certain [...] show full description |
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Bill TextTICLE 1 - GENERAL EDUCATION Modifying annual reporting requirements of district anticipated expenditures and passage rates for GRAD purposes by school superintendents; authorizing the commissioner of education to enter into interstate agreements with adjoining states to establish an enrollment options program, specifying agreement specifications, conditions, and pupil accounting (pupil unit); requiring the commissioner of education to establish procedures relating to the application process, funds payment or collection and data collection; providing for an exclusion from procedure requirements for certain smaller enrollment transfers; providing a tuition exemption for enrollment transfers under terms of agreement; modifying general education revenue calculation for 2010 and later to reflect alternative teacher compensation revenue program changes; modifying transition revenue for 2010 and later to include tuition [...] show full description |
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1E Relating to education finance; delaying the commissioner of education
deadline for the consolidated financial statement and department web
publication; clarifying school district statutory operating debt verification,
elimination and certification
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Requiring teacher centers to provide professional development programs to train
interested and qualified elementary, middle and secondary school teachers
selected by the district to assist other district teachers with mathematics and
science curriculum, standards and instruction; appropriating money to the
commissioner of education
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Appropriating money to independent school district #38, Red Lake to complete
security improvements
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Establishing Word Works a research based early childhood literacy program
premised on actively involved parents, ongoing professional staff development
and high quality early literacy program standards to increase literacy skills of
children participating in head start, specifying program provider requirements;
requiring the commissioner of education to collect longitudinal literacy data on
children; appropriating money to the commissioner of education
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Authorizing grants to school districts for participation in the organizational
assessment and performance improvement process of the Minnesota council for
quality; authorizing school districts to apply to the commissioner of education
for diligence grants, specifying a limit; authorizing role model grants for
districts in receipt of achievement or excellence level recognition by the
council; specifying grant use, amount limit and various grant use
recommendations; appropriating money to the commissioner of education for grant
making, specifying a budget base
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Relating to education; providing extended time revenue to school districts for
certain prekindergarten pupils enrolled in learning year programs
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Creating a joint legislative committee to assess an office of higher education
merger into the department of education, specifying committee membership
requirements
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Authorizing a grant to independent school district #286, Brooklyn Center for an
innovative grant program to demonstrate a district wide program designed to
increase student performance, eliminate the achievement gap and boost graduation
rates; specifying program components; requiring approval from the commissioner
of education; requiring a study and report be submitted to the legislature by a
certain date annually; appropriating money to the commissioner of education for
the grant
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Authorizing and providing for supplementary staff development aid for school
districts not making sufficient progress or needing assistance in reaching the
levels of adequacy under the federal no child left behind act, requiring use for
staff development activities; appropriating money to the commissioner of
education for payment of the aid
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Authorizing funding for voluntary full day kindergarten; modifying pupil
(student) counts and units; repealing the first grade preparedness program
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Increasing the funding for the adults with disabilities program; appropriating
money to the commissioner of education
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Relating to education; authorizing the commissioner of education to make
reimbursement payments to charter schools for qualifying unreimbursed costs of
serving students with disabilities; appropriating money to the department of
education for supplemental special education aid payments
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1E Modifying provisions relating to the online learning act; defining
supplemental online learning; modifying application and notification procedures
and certain online learning parameters; authorizing supplemental online learning
enrollment into the school district term, allowing a waiver; requiring course
syllabus and materials availability for online learners; specifying a maximum
credit for supplemental online learning, requiring application and approval for
additional credits
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Relating to education finance; providing for isolated schools declining
enrollment revenue; adding isolated schools declining enrollment revenue to
general education revenue
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2E Establishing a task force to review all aspects of the education system for
children with disabilities in the state and to recommend to the legislature
changes to simplify and standardize the distribution of state aid for special
education; specifying membership; requiring the department of education and any
other state agency to provide requested information and assistance; requiring
the task force to report to the legislature by a certain date; sunset provision
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2E Relating to education; increasing the age for compulsory instruction from 16
to 18 years of age; modifying certain reporting requirements for parents
instructing children (home school); providing for students between the ages of
16 and 21 to be assigned to area learning centers after consultation with
student and parents under certain conditions; modifying the definition of
habitual truant; repealing certain requirements for withdrawal from school
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Requiring schools (K-12) to have a licensed library media specialist, specifying
requirements
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1E Relating to education; expanding student policy guidelines to include an
expectation that students cooperate with and provide educators with information
on school disciplinary, classroom and other education and school matters under
certain conditions
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Appropriating money to the board of regents of the university of Minnesota for
school of social work to expand learning dreams program to enable more parents
to participate in the education of their children through highly effective
parent and community involvement to improve outcomes for at risk children;
requiring a report to the legislature by a certain date
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Requiring the pollution control agency (PCA) to appoint an ombudsman for
groundwater pollution education and assistance in the state classified service,
prescribing duties, permitting independence in action, requiring knowledge of
federal and state water quality laws and regulations, control technologies and
federal and state regulatory processes, requiring the PCA to provide office
support
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1E Relating to education finance; modifying the referendum ballot language in
cases of renewal of referendum authority
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Appropriating money to the department of education for the purpose of providing
grants to the Minnesota historical society for teacher professional development
to improve implementation of academic standards in state history and social
studies
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1E Requiring the commissioner of education to make data available on students
failing to pass graduation required assessement for diploma (GRAD) tests
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Authorizing independent school district #2134, United South Central to submit a
cooperative facilities grant application to the commissioner of education and
appropriating money to the commissioner and authorizing the issuance of state
bonds for a grant to United South Central under condition of application
approval
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Increasing the K-12 school milk reimbursement to schools by the commissioner of
education
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Establishing and providing for the academic competitiveness highlighting
individual excellence and valuing education (ACHIEVE) grant program and
providing a grant for the purpose of providing free tuition at public
postsecondary institutions, specifying eligibility and grant amounts
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Creating a state board of education to provide general supervision over
educational agencies and other education related matters; requiring the
department of education to be maintained under the direction of the board;
specifying certain membership, meetings, compensation and residency
requirements; specifying certain revisor of statutes renumbering, cross
reference and term change instructions and certain report requirements to the
legislature
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Providing early childhood family education program (ECFE) incentives to programs
successfully reaching out to at risk (high risk) children and demonstrating
collaboration with other ECFE programs and organizations serving at risk
children, specifying a percentage, appropriating money to the commissioner of
education for collaboration incentives
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Authorizing the commissioner of education to make grants to school districts to
assist districts with social and emotional learning curricula; authorizing
grants to implement and integrate social and emotional learning standards as
part of the curriculum; appropriating money to the commissioner of education
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Establishing and providing for the academic competitiveness highlighting
individual excellence and valuing education (ACHIEVE) scholarship program to
reward students for taking rigorous courses in high school; defining qualifying
course; specifying eligibility, providing for administration by the office of
higher education, specifying scholarship award amounts
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Appropriating money to the secretary of state for a grant to Kids Voting
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Requiring school districts to offer and establish policies, procedures,
curriculum and services for providing responsible family life and sexuality
education for grades 7 through 12, specifying age appropriateness and medically
accurate human development and sexuality education requirements; providing for
notice and parental options; authorizing the department of education to offer
services to school districts for program implementation purposes
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Appropriating money to the department of education to hire an American Indian
education liaison; specifying certain responsibilities
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Relating to education finance; increasing school districts and intermediate
school districts lease levy authority
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Appropriating money to the commissioner of education for grants to collaborative
urban educator recruitment and training programs; reserving certain amounts for
the southeast Asian teacher program at Concordia university in St. Paul, the
collaborative urban educator program at the university of St. Thomas and for the
center for excellence in urban teaching at Hamline university; requiring grant
recipients to collaborate with urban and nonurban school districts
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Authorizing nonpublic schools to participate in the limited English proficiency
(LEP) program; requiring the commissioner of education to count LEP participant
nonpublic students
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1E Requiring secondary (high school) students to complete a year of dual credit
secondary and postsecondary academic or career and technical courses or programs
as a high school graduation condition to ensure academic rigor; requiring dual
credit course availability from public high schools; providing for 3R high
school aid, specifying expectations and opportunities for 3R high schools and
aid formula; appropriating money to the commissioner of education
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2E Establishing a P-20 (P20) education partnership to create a seamless system
of education to maximize student achievements from early childhood through
postsecondary (post secondary) education, specifying membership to include the
commissioner of education, the university of Minnesota, the Minnesota state
college and university (MnSCU) system, certain legislators and certain local
association, council, foundation and partnership members; establishing a
deadline for appointments and designations; sunset provision
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Increasing the general education equity levy for certain school districts
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Providing successful schools aid for schools earning a minimum score in reading
or mathematics on the school performance report card for the previous school
year or schools with certain enrollment conditions; specifying allowance amount,
aid and uses; appropriating money to the commissioner of education
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Appropriating money to the commissioner of education for the educational
planning and assessment (EPAS) program
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Modifying the K-12 education statewide testing and reporting system, modifying
scoring and achievement levels for reading, mathematics and writing; requiring
the commissioner of education to establish rules for the proper implementation,
administration and public review of the state graduation tests; removing a
commissioner of education school district exemption reporting requirement;
removing certain report qualifiers; requiring certain accommodations,
assessments and federally consistent exemptions for testing
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Requiring the commissioner of education in cooperation with the Minnesota
association of alternative programs and the office of educational accountability
to submit to the legislature by a certain date recommendations for using various
performance indicators to fairly and accurately measure the progress of
alternative schools and students to avoid the results of high stakes testing
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1E Establishing an all day kindergarten pilot project in independent school
district #138, North Branch for underperforming students, requiring school
district targeted intervention program development and student assessment;
appropriating money to the commissioner of education
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Appropriating money to the department of education for school districts
compensatory revenue pilot program participation grants to independent school
districts #11, Anoka-Hennepin, #279, Osseo, #15, St. Francis, #281, Robbinsdale,
#535, Rochester and #833, South Washington
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Relating to crimes; prohibiting sexual relations between school employees in
positions of authority and students; defining secondary schools; providing for
criminal sexual conduct in the third or fourth degree for certain sexual conduct
offenses
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Requiring public school students to complete service learning hours as a
condition of graduating from high school; specifying the amount of required
student service credit hours and qualifying activities
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Appropriating money to the commissioner of education for a grant to independent
school district #4, McGregor for partial compensation for enrollment decline
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Providing for an elementary and middle school years education international
baccalaureate (IB) pilot program in special school district #6, South St. Paul;
requiring the filing of a pilot project plan with the commissioner of education
for approval, specifying certain plan content requirements and providing for
funding; requiring annual reports to the commissioner and a final assessment
report to the legislature upon completion of the pilot program; appropriating
money to the commissioner of education for the pilot program
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1E Creating the council on indigenous language, providing for membership
appointment from the native American tribes and Indian communities, specifying
organization, duties and meeting schedule, requiring the council to collaborate
with the departments of education and human services and the office of higher
education to develop a multitiered system for native speaker board of teaching
certification for teaching purposes, requiring the council to work for an
indigenous language institute development for curriculum standards, permitting
the council to contract, regulating appropriations to the council, requiring the
initial meeting to be convened by a facilitator designated by the Minnesota
Dakota/Ojibwe language revitalization alliance (DOLRA), appropriating money to
the council, office of higher education and the commissioners of human services
and education
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1E Authorizing the commissioner of commerce to establish and maintain an
electronic licensing database system for license origination, renewal and
tracking the completion of continuing education requirements of individual
insurance agent licensees, requiring the commissioner to pay for database costs
through imposition of a continuing education technology surcharge, specifying a
maximum surcharge fee, establishing the commerce department technology account,
permitting commissioner surcharge reduction or suspension upon reaching a
certain account balance; prohibiting an individual from selling, soliciting and
negotiating long term care insurance unless licensed as an insurance producer
for accident and health or sickness insurance or life insurance and has
completed an initial training course and ongoing training, specifying training
requirements
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Expecting students to be present and participate in school safety drills
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Bill TextRelating to education; establishing state measures for academic success; requiring a growth based value added indicator of student achievement for statewide and local assessments; defining certain terms; modifying certain statewide testing and reporting system provisions, modifying certain educational accountability and public reporting requirements, requiring the commissioner of education to aggregate certain student performance data; requiring the commissioner to maintain a system for student academic achievement and growth, modifying certain system component requirements; specifying certain school district student academic achievement levels for meeting federally mandated expectations; modifying educational assessment system requirements, specifying certain duties of the commissioner relating to establishing a new state growth norm applicable to students in a particular grade for a particular year; specifying certain [...] show full description |
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Bill TextEstablishing course preparation and continuing education requirements for school administrators and teachers working with gifted and talented students; specifying certain duties of the board of school administrators relating to expanding candidate licensure requirements to include graduate gifted and talented preparation, requiring opportunities for gifted and talented training for administrators seeking relicensure; requiring review and approval of traditional preparation programs for school administrators focusing on gifted and talented student programs and services; specifying college and university requirements for gifted and talented school administrators; requiring higher education systems approved by the board of teaching to include a certain amount of teacher instruction in teaching gifted and talented students; specifying certain relicensure requirements and certain preservice training for teacher candidates;[...] show full description |
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Latest Action: 03/14/2007 - Introduction and first reading
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Creating a scholar loan program to encourage academically talented postsecondary
students of color to become teachers of early childhood, elementary and
secondary education; specifying applicant eligibility and certain application
process requirements; requiring the director of the Minnesota office of higher
education, in consultation with the commissioner of education to award scholar
loans to eligible students of color; providing for loan forgiveness, deferrals
or repayment procedures; appropriating money to the commissioner of education
for the scholar loan program
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Relating to education finance; repealing the permanent school fund subtraction
for general education aid
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3E Expanding the authority of the commissioner of natural resources (DNR)
relating to managing certain school trust fund lands, specifying certain duties
and reporting requirements; modifying certain duties of the permanent school
fund advisory committee; requiring a report to the legislature by a certain
date; specifying the permanency of the advisory committee
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Requiring the commissioners of education and health to provide certain
information on the human papillomavirus vaccine to parents and guardians of
certain students
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Increasing the K-12 school milk reimbursement to schools by the commissioner of
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Providing a GRAD test appeals process, requiring the commissioner of education
to collaborate with high school teachers, administrators, parents, assessment
directors and certain higher education faculty to establish a GRAD test appeals
process allowing school districts discretionary authority to grant diplomas to
high school seniors not receiving a passing score on the state reading or math
GRAD test, requiring commissioner effectiveness evaluation
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Latest Action: 03/12/2007 - Introduction and first reading
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Appropriating money to the commissioner of education for a grant to Augsburg
College for the urban debate league programs
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Latest Action: 03/21/2007 - Comm rpt: To pass and re-referred to Finance
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Requiring the commissioner of education to contract with the Search Institute to
help local communities develop, expand and maintain the tools, training and
resources needed to foster positive child and youth development and effectively
engage young people in their communities; requiring commissioner to evaluate
effectiveness of the program and report to legislature by a certain date;
appropriating money to commissioner of education
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Latest Action: 02/25/2008 - Introduction and first reading
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Adding an inflationary adjustment for alternative teacher compensation revenue
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Latest Action: 03/15/2007 - Introduction and first reading
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Modifying St. Paul teachers retirement fund association provisions, modifying
the aid adjustment computation required by the commissioner of education to
independent school district #625, St. Paul and the employer regular contribution
to the fund; increasing the state payment to the fund; continuing independent
school district #625, St. Paul payments to the fund until a certain date;
requiring executive director determination of the postretirement adjustment and
modifying the eligibility period, eliminating an additional investment
postretirement percentage; providing for a cost of living adjustment, specifying
calculation; establishing a new amortization (full funding) date; repealing an
aid adjustment termination due to employer retirement contribution rate changes
and a St. Paul teacher retirement fund association supplemental administrative
expense assessment
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Latest Action: 03/19/2007 - Author added Michel
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Bill TextModifying and clarifying certain school district reciprocity agreement provisions; modifying tuition payment requirements; authorizing the commissioner of education to enter into an agreement with a designated authority from an adjoining state to establish an enrollment options programs with the adjoining state; specifying certain agreement content requirements; providing for pupil accounting; requiring the commissioner to establish certain procedures relating to applications, the collection or payment of funds and the collection of data for implementation of the agreement; specifying certain severance pay exceptions; providing adjustments for special education tuition payments; modifying the general education transition revenue formula and setting the district transition allowance for fiscal year 2009 and later; prescribing the tuition reciprocity revenue transition formula; expanding payment of aids to school districts [...] show full description |
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Latest Action: 03/01/2007 - Introduction and first reading
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Relating to education finance; renaming the cooperative secondary facilities
grant act the cooperative facilities grant act; expanding eligibility for the
program; increasing the cap for grants; appropriating money to the commissioner
of education for grants and authorizing the issuance of state bonds for the
cooperative facilities grant program
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Latest Action: 02/26/2007 - Introduction and first reading
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Appropriating money to the department of education to provide border aid to
independent school district #891, Canby
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Latest Action: 03/08/2007 - Introduction and first reading
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Latest Action: 02/14/2008 - Introduction and first reading
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Appropriating money to the commissioner of employment and economic development
(DEED) and authorizing the issuance of state bonds for a grant to Yellow
Medicine county to design, construct, furnish and equip the AgLan Centr, an
agricultural education and exhibit center
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Latest Action: 01/25/2007 - Introduction and first reading
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Relating to dentistry licensure; removing the disqualification exemption for
graduates of foreign (nonaccredited) dental colleges
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Latest Action: 02/15/2007 - Author added Rest
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Latest Action: 03/05/2007 - Comm rpt: To pass and re-referred to Finance
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