All Colleges and Universities Legislation - Minnesota

Relating to education; expanding the required academic standards to include a world language; requiring school districts to implement world language graduation requirements for students graduating in the 2014-2015 school year or later; modifying elective standards; modifying benchmarks and graduation requirements; requiring the board of teaching to review and approve qualified alternative preparation programs leading to licensure as a world language teacher; establishing an advisory task force on developing students world language proficiency to consider and recommend to the legislature a process for designing and implementing a comprehensive statewide program to ensure a high level of world language proficiency, sunset; establishing a pilot program to develop and implement Mandarin Chinese programs and to enhance existing successful Mandarin Chinese programs for school districts, specifying certain application requirements,[...]

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Relating to education ARTICLE 1 - HIGHER EDUCATION APPROPRIATIONS Providing a summary of appropriations by fund; appropriating money to the office of higher education services office for ACHIEVE, the Minnesota GI bill, state grants, safety officers survivors, interstate tuition reciprocity, state work study, child care grants, Minitex and MnLINK gateway, the learning network, the college savings plan, the Midwest higher education compact, certain small programs, united family medicine registry program and for agency administration, to the board of trustees of the Minnesota state colleges and universities (MnSCU) for developing and strengthening projects to improve campus recruitment and retention of underserved students, for instruction in electronic medical record technology, for excellence in the biosciences, for STEM, for performance bonuses and expanding the online program, to the board of regents [...]

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"Textbook Pricing and Access Act"; providing higher education students better and more timely access to affordable textbooks; defining certain terms; prohibiting postsecondary institutions from having business dealings relating to sale of textbooks with a publisher (textbook bundling) and specifying certain publisher disclosure requirements; requiring faculty specificity textbooks; specifying bundling restrictions and notice to purchase requirements at student registration; requiring bookstores to adopt textbook affordability policies and procedures and requiring postsecondary financial institutions distributing financial aid to students to establish police and procedures to provide credit or financial aid for required textbooks and supplies at any bookstore; requiring the board of regents of the university of Minnesota and board of trustees of the Minnesota state colleges and universities (MnSCU) to establish a textbook [...]

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Establishing 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;[...]

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Relating to capital improvements; authorizing spending to acquire and better public land and buildings and other improvements of a capital nature with certain conditions; establishing new programs and modifying existing programs; providing a summary of appropriations; appropriating money to the board of regents of the university of Minnesota for higher education asset preservation and replacement (HEAPR), to construct a science teaching student services building on the Twin Cities campus and a civil engineering addition to Voss-Kovach Hall on the Duluth campus, for renovation of the community services building on the Morris campus and renovation of the Folwell hall on the Twin Cities campus and specifying certain university share requirements, to the board of trustees of the Minnesota state colleges and universities (MnSCU) for higher education asset preservation and replacement (HEAPR), for renovation of Trafton science [...]

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