Bill > SF2684

This bill appropriates funds for various education-related purposes for the fiscal years 2024 and 2025, with some provisions effective immediately or for future fiscal years. * **General Education Aid:** $8.1 billion for FY 2024 and $8.48 billion for FY 2025. * **Abatement Aid:** $2.34 million for FY 2024 and $2.67 million for FY 2025. * **Career and Technical Aid:** $1.51 million for FY 2024 and $761,000 for FY 2025. * **Consolidation Transition Aid:** $187,000 for FY 2024 and $290,000 for FY 2025. * **Enrollment Options Transportation:** $18,000 for FY 2024 and $19,000 for FY 2025. * **Nonpublic Pupil Education Aid:** $22.35 million for FY 2024 and $24.12 million for FY 2025. * **Nonpublic Pupil Transportation:** $22.25 million for FY 2024 and $24.71 million for FY 2025. * **One-Room Schoolhouse Grant:** $65,000 for FY 2024 and $65,000 for FY 2025. * **Pregnant and Parenting Pupil Transportation Reimbursement:** $55,000 for FY 2024 and $55,000 for FY 2025. * **Achievement and Integration Aid:** $83.33 million for FY 2024 and $84.23 million for FY 2025. * **Alliance of Chicanos, Hispanics, and Latin Americans (ACHLA) Grant:** $300,000 for FY 2024 and $200,000 for FY 2025 for the Juntos Club to support English language learners and other students. * **American Indian Education Aid:** $17.95 million for FY 2024 and $19.27 million for FY 2025. * **BARR Center Grants:** $5 million for FY 2024 for programs to improve student social and emotional skills, academic achievement, teacher satisfaction, and graduation rates. * **Charter School Building Lease Aid:** $94.32 million for FY 2024 and $98.17 million for FY 2025. * **College Entrance Examination Reimbursement:** $1.01 million for FY 2024 and $1.01 million for FY 2025. * **COMPASS and MTSS Support:** $3.74 million for FY 2024 and $3.74 million for FY 2025 to support the MTSS framework and COMPASS school improvement model. * **Concurrent Enrollment Aid:** $4 million for FY 2024 and $4 million for FY 2025. * **Early Childhood Literacy Programs:** $7.95 million for FY 2024 and $7.95 million for FY 2025. * **Emergency Medical Training Grants:** $1 million for FY 2024 and $1 million for FY 2025 for high school emergency medical services courses. * **Examination Fees; Teacher Training and Support Programs:** $4.5 million for FY 2024 and $4.5 million for FY 2025 for advanced placement and international baccalaureate programs. * **Full-Service Community Schools Grants:** $14.5 million for FY 2024. * **Girls Taking Action Grant:** $1.5 million for FY 2024 for programs supporting low-income girls of color. * **Grants to Increase STEM Course Offerings:** $250,000 for FY 2024 and $250,000 for FY 2025 for underserved students in AP and IB programs. * **Innovation Service Learning Grants:** $1 million for FY 2024. * **Interdistrict Desegregation or Integration Transportation Grants:** $15 million for FY 2024 and $16.61 million for FY 2025. * **Junior Achievement North Grant:** $500,000 for FY 2024 and $500,000 for FY 2025 for financial literacy programming. * **Literacy Incentive Aid:** $42.23 million for FY 2024 and $42.50 million for FY 2025. * **Minnesota Center for the Book Programming:** $150,000 for FY 2024 and $150,000 for FY 2025. * **Minnesota Council on Economic Education Grant:** $200,000 for FY 2024 and $200,000 for FY 2025 for teacher professional development and student programs. * **Minnesota Independence College and Community Transfer:** $625,000 for FY 2024 and $625,000 for FY 2025 for tuition reduction and institutional support. * **Minnesota Math Corps Program:** $1 million for FY 2024 and $1 million for FY 2025. * **Minnesota Principals Academy Grants:** $200,000 for FY 2024 and $200,000 for FY 2025. * **Museums and Education Centers Grants:** $1.24 million for FY 2024 and $1.24 million for FY 2025 for various institutions. * **Native Language Revitalization Grants:** $7.5 million for FY 2024 and $7.5 million for FY 2025 for Dakota and Anishinaabe language programs. * **Online Music Instruction Grant:** $300,000 for FY 2024 to MacPhail Center for Music. * **P-TECH Schools Support Grants:** $791,000 for FY 2024 and $791,000 for FY 2025. * **Pilot Program to Improve Educational Outcomes and Accountability:** $150,000 for FY 2024 and $150,000 for FY 2025 for Pillsbury United Communities. * **Recovery Program Grants:** $750,000 for FY 2024 and $750,000 for FY 2025. * **Rural Career and Technical Education Consortium Grants:** $3 million for FY 2024 and $3 million for FY 2025. * **ServeMinnesota Program Funding:** $900,000 for FY 2024 and $900,000 for FY 2025. * **Starbase MN Grant:** $500,000 for FY 2024 and $500,000 for FY 2025 for STEM programs. * **Statewide Testing and Reporting System:** $10.89 million for FY 2024 and $10.89 million for FY 2025. * **Student Organizations Funding:** $868,000 for FY 2024 and $868,000 for FY 2025 for various career and technical student organizations. * **Tribal Contract School Aid:** $2.59 million for FY 2024 and $2.96 million for FY 2025. * **Walkabouts Program Grants:** $250,000 for FY 2024 and $250,000 for FY 2025 for kinesthetic learning platforms. * **Closing Educational Opportunity Gaps Grants:** $4 million for FY 2024 and $4 million for FY 2025. * **Coalition to Increase Teachers of Color and American Indian Teachers Grant:** $100,000 for FY 2024 and $100,000 for FY 2025. * **Expanded Concurrent Enrollment Grants:** $500,000 for FY 2024 and $500,000 for FY 2025 for "Introduction to Teaching" courses. * **Grow Your Own Pathways to Teacher Licensure Grants:** $32.5 million for FY 2024 and $32.5 million for FY 2025, including funds for early childhood educator programs and teacher residency programs. * **Minnesota Indian Teacher Training Program Grants:** $700,000 for FY 2024 and $700,000 for FY 2025. * **Reimbursements for Teacher Licensing and Exam Fees:** $1.4 million for FY 2024. * **Statewide Concurrent Enrollment Teacher Training Program:** $375,000 for FY 2024 and $375,000 for FY 2025. * **Statewide Teacher Mentoring Program:** $9.94 million for FY 2024. * **Student Support Personnel:** $2.55 million for FY 2024 and $2.55 million for FY 2025 for workforce development and a school mental health service lead. * **Student Support Personnel Aid:** $23.43 million for FY 2024 and $26 million for FY 2025. * **Department of Education (General Operations):** $43.36 million for FY 2024 and $38.19 million for FY 2025, with specific allocations for the Board of School Administrators, regional centers of excellence, mainframe updates, legal fees, data submissions, and the Office of the Inspector General. * **Minnesota State Academies:** $17.45 million for FY 2024 and $17.19 million for FY 2025, including funds for an audiology booth and a mental health day treatment program. * **Perpich Center for Arts Education:** $8.37 million for FY 2024 and $8.44 million for FY 2025, including funds for furniture replacement. * **Professional Educator Licensing and Standards Board:** $3.42 million for FY 2024 and $3.56 million for FY 2025, including funds for licensure by portfolio. * **Debt Service Equalization Aid:** $24.51 million for FY 2024 and $21.35 million for FY 2025. * **Equity in Telecommunications Access:** $3.75 million for FY 2024 and $3.75 million for FY 2025. * **Historic School Building Preservation Grants:** $400,000 for FY 2024 and $400,000 for FY 2025. * **Long-Term Facilities Maintenance Equalized Aid:** $108.05 million for FY 2024 and $107.89 million for FY 2025. * **School Breakfast Program Reimbursement:** Increases reimbursement rates for reduced-price and fully paid breakfasts. * **School Libraries and Media Centers Aid:** $28.07 million for FY 2024 and $31.21 million for FY 2025. * **Multicounty, Multitype Library Systems Aid:** $2 million for FY 2024 and $2 million for FY 2025. * **Regional Library Telecommunications Aid:** $2.3 million for FY 2024 and $2.3 million for FY 2025. * **Adult Basic Education Aid:** $52.66 million for FY 2024 and $54.20 million for FY 2025. * **Adults with Disabilities Program Aid:** $710,000 for FY 2024 and $2.88 million for FY 2025. * **After-School Community Learning Grant Program:** $40 million for FY 2024. * **Community Education Aid:** $98,000 for FY 2024 and $8.68 million for FY 2025. * **Deaf, Deafblind, and Hard-of-Hearing Adults Programs:** $70,000 for FY 2024 and $70,000 for FY 2025. * **High School Equivalency Test Fees:** $615,000 for FY 2024 and $125,000 for FY 2025 to cover test fees. * **Minnesota Alliance of Boys and Girls Clubs Grant:** $2.5 million for FY 2024 and $2.5 million for FY 2025 for after-school and summer programming. * **Neighborhood Partnership Grants:** $2.6 million for FY 2024 and $2.6 million for FY 2025 for specific organizations. * **Regional Neighborhood Partnership Grants:** $2.1 million for FY 2024 and $2.1 million for FY 2025 for various community programs. * **School-Age Care Aid:** $1,000 for FY 2024 and $1,000 for FY 2025. * **Developmental Screening Aid:** $4.35 million for FY 2024 and $4.38 million for FY 2025. * **Early Childhood Family Education Aid:** $37.5 million for FY 2024 and $40.74 million for FY 2025. * **Early Childhood Programs at Tribal Contract Schools:** $68,000 for FY 2024 and $68,000 for FY 2025. * **Early Childhood Teacher Shortage Grants:** $490,000 for FY 2024 and $490,000 for FY 2025. * **Early Learning Scholarships:** $205.97 million for FY 2024 and $205.97 million for FY 2025. * **Educate Parents Partnership:** $49,000 for FY 2024 and $49,000 for FY 2025. * **Head Start Program Funding:** $35.1 million for FY 2024 and $35.1 million for FY 2025. * **Home Visiting Aid:** $391,000 for FY 2024 and $309,000 for FY 2025. * **Kindergarten Entrance Assessment Initiative and Intervention Program:** $281,000 for FY 2024 and $281,000 for FY 2025. * **Learning with Music Program:** $250,000 for FY 2024 and $250,000 for FY 2025 for MacPhail Center for Music. * **ParentChild+ Program Grant:** $1.8 million for FY 2024 and $1.8 million for FY 2025. * **Quality Rating and Improvement System:** $1.75 million for FY 2024 and $1.75 million for FY 2025 for early childhood providers. * **Reach Out and Read Minnesota Grant:** $250,000 for FY 2024 and $250,000 for FY 2025 for early childhood literacy. * **School Readiness Programs:** $33.68 million for FY 2024 and $33.68 million for FY 2025. * **Lease Levy for Transportation Hub:** Allows Eastern Carver County Schools to lease a transportation hub. * **Fund Transfer for Burnsville-Eagan-Savage School District:** Allows the district to transfer funds from its long-term facilities maintenance reserve to its general fund. * **Long-Term Facilities Maintenance Revenue Adjustment:** Allows districts that purchase and remodel nonschool facilities to adjust their long-term facilities maintenance revenue. * **Repeals:** Repeals Minnesota Statutes 2022, section 122A.06, subdivision 4, related to reading instruction. * **Read Act Implementation:** Establishes requirements for evidence-based reading instruction, screening, and professional development for teachers, with specific deadlines and funding for implementation. * **Teacher Licensure and Support:** Modifies requirements for teacher licenses, including provisions for teachers of color and American Indian teachers, and provides funding for various recruitment, retention, and professional development programs. * **Student Support Personnel Aid:** Establishes aid for school counselors, psychologists, social workers, nurses, and chemical dependency counselors. * **Special Education:** Adjusts age limits for special education services, modifies requirements for paraprofessionals, and increases aid for special education separate sites and programs. * **Office of the Inspector General:** Establishes an Office of the Inspector General within the Department of Education to detect and prevent fraud, waste, and abuse. * **Forecast Adjustments:** Modifies appropriations from previous fiscal years.