1.1    .................... moves to amend H. F. No. 1424 as follows:
1.2Delete everything after the enacting clause and insert:

1.3    "Section 1. Minnesota Statutes 2006, section 120B.021, subdivision 1, is amended to
1.4read:
1.5    Subdivision 1. Required academic standards. (a) The following subject areas
1.6are required for statewide accountability:
1.7    (1) language arts;
1.8    (2) mathematics;
1.9    (3) science;
1.10    (4) social studies, including history, geography, economics, and government and
1.11citizenship;
1.12    (5) health and physical education, for which locally developed academic standards
1.13apply; and
1.14    (6) the arts, for which statewide or locally developed academic standards apply, as
1.15determined by the school district. so that (i) public elementary and middle schools must
1.16offer at least three and require at least two of the following four arts areas in: dance;
1.17music; theater; and visual arts.; and (ii) public high schools must offer at least three and
1.18require at least one of the following five arts areas in: media arts; dance; music; theater;
1.19and visual arts; and
1.20    (7) a world language, for which locally developed academic standards apply.
1.21    (b) The commissioner must submit proposed standards in science and social studies
1.22to the legislature by February 1, 2004.
1.23For purposes of applicable federal law, the academic standards for language arts,
1.24mathematics, and science apply to all public school students, except the very few students
1.25with extreme cognitive or physical impairments for whom an individualized education
1.26plan team has determined that the required academic standards are inappropriate.
2.1An individualized education plan team that makes this determination must establish
2.2alternative standards.
2.3    (c) A school district, no later than the 2007-2008 school year, must adopt graduation
2.4requirements that meet or exceed state graduation requirements established in law or
2.5rule. A school district that incorporates these state graduation requirements before the
2.62007-2008 school year must provide students who enter the 9th grade in or before
2.7the 2003-2004 school year the opportunity to earn a diploma based on existing locally
2.8established graduation requirements in effect when the students entered the 9th grade.
2.9District efforts to develop, implement, or improve instruction or curriculum as a result
2.10of the provisions of this section must be consistent with sections 120B.10, 120B.11,
2.11and 120B.20.
2.12    (d) At a minimum, school districts must implement a world language graduation
2.13requirement for students who graduate in the 2024-2025 school year and later unless
2.14exempted by the commissioner. The graduation requirement must expect students
2.15to demonstrate an intermediate-low level of proficiency in a language other than
2.16English using the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages proficiency
2.17guidelines. School districts must determine student proficiency levels based on a language
2.18classification scale such as the Defense Language Institute or an equivalent and must
2.19consider national foreign language standards descriptions of language proficiency
2.20expectations. Pupils of limited English proficiency under section 124D.59, subdivision
2.212, satisfy this requirement in their first learned language or in a third language other
2.22than English.
2.23EFFECTIVE DATE.This section is effective immediately and applies to students
2.24who graduate in the 2024-2025 school year and later.

2.25    Sec. 2. Minnesota Statutes 2006, section 120B.022, subdivision 1, is amended to read:
2.26    Subdivision 1. Elective standards. A district must establish its own standards in the
2.27following subject areas:
2.28    (1) vocational and technical education; and
2.29    (2) world languages standards.
2.30    A school district must offer courses in all elective subject areas.
2.31EFFECTIVE DATE.This section is effective immediately and applies to students
2.32who graduate in the 2024-2025 school year and later.

2.33    Sec. 3. Minnesota Statutes 2006, section 120B.023, subdivision 2, is amended to read:
2.34    Subd. 2. Revisions and reviews required. (a) The commissioner of education must
2.35revise and appropriately embed technology and information literacy standards consistent
3.1with recommendations from school media specialists into the state's academic standards
3.2and graduation requirements and implement a review cycle for state academic standards
3.3and related benchmarks, consistent with this subdivision. During each review cycle, the
3.4commissioner also must examine the alignment of each required academic standard and
3.5related benchmark with the knowledge and skills students need for college readiness and
3.6advanced work in the particular subject area.
3.7    (b) The commissioner in the 2006-2007 school year must revise and align the state's
3.8academic standards and high school graduation requirements in mathematics to require
3.9that students satisfactorily complete the revised mathematics standards, beginning in the
3.102010-2011 school year. Under the revised standards:
3.11    (1) students must satisfactorily complete an algebra I credit by the end of eighth
3.12grade; and
3.13    (2) students scheduled to graduate in the 2014-2015 school year or later must
3.14satisfactorily complete an algebra II credit or its equivalent.
3.15The commissioner also must ensure that the statewide mathematics assessments
3.16administered to students in grades 3 through 8 and 11 beginning in the 2010-2011
3.17school year are aligned with the state academic standards in mathematics. The statewide
3.1811th grade mathematics test administered to students under clause (2) beginning in
3.19the 2013-2014 school year must include algebra II test items that are aligned with
3.20corresponding state academic standards in mathematics. The commissioner must
3.21implement a review of the academic standards and related benchmarks in mathematics
3.22beginning in the 2015-2016 school year.
3.23    (c) The commissioner in the 2007-2008 school year must revise and align the state's
3.24academic standards and high school graduation requirements in the arts to require that
3.25students satisfactorily complete the revised arts standards beginning in the 2010-2011
3.26school year. The commissioner must implement a review of the academic standards and
3.27related benchmarks in arts beginning in the 2016-2017 school year.
3.28    (d) The commissioner in the 2008-2009 school year must revise and align the state's
3.29academic standards and high school graduation requirements in science to require that
3.30students satisfactorily complete the revised science standards, beginning in the 2011-2012
3.31school year. Under the revised standards, students scheduled to graduate in the 2014-2015
3.32school year or later must satisfactorily complete a chemistry or physics credit. The
3.33commissioner must implement a review of the academic standards and related benchmarks
3.34in science beginning in the 2017-2018 school year.
3.35    (e) The commissioner in the 2009-2010 school year must revise and align the state's
3.36academic standards and high school graduation requirements in language arts to require
4.1that students satisfactorily complete the revised language arts standards beginning in the
4.22012-2013 school year. The commissioner must implement a review of the academic
4.3standards and related benchmarks in language arts beginning in the 2018-2019 school year.
4.4    (f) The commissioner in the 2010-2011 school year must revise and align the state's
4.5academic standards and high school graduation requirements in social studies to require
4.6that students satisfactorily complete the revised social studies standards beginning in the
4.72013-2014 school year. The commissioner must implement a review of the academic
4.8standards and related benchmarks in social studies beginning in the 2019-2020 school year.
4.9    (g) School districts and charter schools must revise and align local academic
4.10standards and high school graduation requirements in health, physical education, world
4.11languages, and career and technical education to require students to complete the revised
4.12standards beginning in a school year determined by the school district or charter school.
4.13Students who graduate in the 2024-2025 school year and later must satisfactorily complete
4.14credits in a world language between seventh and twelfth grades to meet the proficiency
4.15expectations under section 120B.021, subdivision 1, paragraph (d). School districts and
4.16charter schools must formally establish a periodic review cycle for the academic standards
4.17and related benchmarks in health, physical education, world languages, and career and
4.18technical education.
4.19EFFECTIVE DATE.This section is effective immediately and applies to students
4.20who graduate in the 2024-2025 school year and later.

4.21    Sec. 4. Minnesota Statutes 2006, section 120B.024, is amended to read:
4.22120B.024 GRADUATION REQUIREMENTS; COURSE CREDITS.
4.23    (a) Students beginning 9th grade in the 2004-2005 school year and later must
4.24successfully complete the following high school level course credits for graduation:
4.25    (1) four credits of language arts;
4.26    (2) three credits of mathematics, encompassing at least algebra, geometry, statistics,
4.27and probability sufficient to satisfy the academic standard;
4.28    (3) three credits of science, including at least one credit in biology;
4.29    (4) three and one-half credits of social studies, encompassing at least United
4.30States history, geography, government and citizenship, world history, and economics or
4.31three credits of social studies encompassing at least United States history, geography,
4.32government and citizenship, and world history, and one-half credit of economics taught in
4.33a school's social studies, agriculture education, or business department;
4.34    (5) one credit in the arts; and
4.35    (6) a minimum of seven elective course credits.
5.1    A course credit is equivalent to a student successfully completing an academic
5.2year of study or a student mastering the applicable subject matter, as determined by the
5.3local school district.
5.4    (b) An agriculture science course may fulfill a science credit requirement in addition
5.5to the specified science credits in biology and chemistry or physics under paragraph (a),
5.6clause (3).
5.7    (c) Students beginning ninth grade in the 2020-2021 school year and later must
5.8demonstrate the level of proficiency under section 120B.021, subdivision 1, paragraph (d).
5.9EFFECTIVE DATE.This section is effective immediately and applies to students
5.10who graduate in the 2024-2025 school year and later.

5.11    Sec. 5. Minnesota Statutes 2006, section 122A.18, is amended by adding a subdivision
5.12to read:
5.13    Subd. 10. World language licenses. The board must review and approve qualified
5.14alternative preparation programs under section 122A.24 leading to licensure as a world
5.15language teacher in grades kindergarten through 8 and grades kindergarten through 12 for
5.16those individuals who are fully proficient in English and another world language under
5.17board requirements, have a bachelor's degree from an accredited four-year postsecondary
5.18institution, and are interested in becoming licensed world language teachers. Alternative
5.19preparation programs for qualified individuals must be one school year in length.
5.20EFFECTIVE DATE.This section is effective for persons enrolling in an alternative
5.21preparation program after August 15, 2008.

5.22    Sec. 6. ADVISORY TASK FORCE ON DEVELOPING STUDENTS' WORLD
5.23LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY.
5.24    (a) The commissioner of education must establish an advisory task force on
5.25developing students' world language no later than September 1, 2007, to consider and
5.26recommend to the legislature a process for designing and implementing a comprehensive
5.27statewide program to ensure a proficiency level consistent with Minnesota Statutes, section
5.28120B.021, subdivision 1, paragraph (d), for Minnesota students by the 2024-2025 school
5.29year. The process must anticipate a gradual implementation of world language programs
5.30over time, acknowledge and reinforce the language proficiency and cultural awareness
5.31that minority language speakers already possess, and encourage students' proficiency in
5.32multiple world languages. To realize these goals, and consistent with this act, the task
5.33force at least annually must make recommendations to the legislature and the education
5.34commissioner for developing and implementing:
6.1    (1) high quality sustainable program models that reach many learners but result in
6.2lower proficiency levels and other program models that provide depth that reach fewer
6.3students but lead to higher proficiency levels;
6.4    (2) week-long intensive training sessions for public school district administrators
6.5interested in establishing high quality sustainable world language programs;
6.6    (3) postsecondary two-year and four-year programs that offer high quality world
6.7language instruction, world language degrees, and opportunities to learn and apply a world
6.8language to a specific purpose;
6.9    (4) increased language proficiency and quality of instruction for increased numbers
6.10of licensed world language teachers whose teacher preparation programs reflect the
6.11program standards of the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages and
6.12the National Council for the Accreditation of Teacher Education;
6.13    (5) compact, intensive teacher education programs that maintain Minnesota's
6.14rigorous world language standards;
6.15    (6) programs that simultaneously support both minority language learners in
6.16maintaining their native language while mastering English and majority language learners
6.17in learning other languages, lead to certificates of bilingualism and multilingualism, and
6.18provide scholarships for further world language study;
6.19    (7) information technology, including high-speed Internet access, for online learning
6.20and increasing statewide access to world language information, books, and education
6.21materials, and high-quality world language instruction; and
6.22    (8) a full-time position for a state coordinator for world languages in the Minnesota
6.23Department of Education; and
6.24    (9) model world language programs and plans for implementing a required world
6.25language standard at various grade levels between kindergarten and grade 12.
6.26    (b) The commissioner of education must appoint an advisory task force that is
6.27composed of a representative from each of the following entities who is selected by that
6.28entity: the Minnesota Department of Education; CARLA at the University of Minnesota;
6.29the College of Education and Human Development at the University of Minnesota;
6.30Concordia Language Village; St. Paul Public Schools; Minneapolis Public Schools; the
6.31Minnesota State Colleges and Universities system; the Association of Metropolitan
6.32School Districts; the Minnesota Rural Education Association; the Minnesota School
6.33Boards Association; Education Minnesota; the Parent Teacher Association; the Minnesota
6.34Association of School Administrators; the Minnesota Private Colleges Council; the
6.35Minnesota Council on the Teaching of Languages and Cultures; the Minnesota Articulation
6.36Project; and others recommended by task force members. Task force members' terms and
7.1other task force matters are subject to Minnesota Statutes, section 15.059. Annually, by
7.2February 15, the task force must submit to the Education Policy and Finance Committees
7.3of the legislature a written report on the ongoing process of designing and implementing a
7.4comprehensive statewide program to ensure a high level of world language proficiency
7.5for all Minnesota students by the 2024-2025 school year.
7.6    (c) The task force expires on February 16, 2025.
7.7EFFECTIVE DATE.This section is effective the day following final enactment.

7.8    Sec. 7. PILOT PROGRAM TO DEVELOP AND IMPLEMENT MANDARIN
7.9CHINESE PROGRAMS AND TO ENHANCE EXISTING SUCCESSFUL
7.10MANDARIN CHINESE PROGRAMS.
7.11    Subdivision 1. Establishment; application. (a) A pilot program for fiscal years
7.122008 and 2009 is established to develop and implement alternative sustainable model
7.13programs in Mandarin Chinese instruction and to enhance existing successful Mandarin
7.14Chinese programs. The pilot programs either must provide: program breadth offering
7.15intensive Mandarin Chinese programs to fewer students in elementary school and offering
7.16middle and high school Mandarin Chinese programs to many students that may result
7.17in a lower level of student proficiency; or program depth with intensive immersion or
7.18content-based Mandarin Chinese programs that are available to fewer students but result
7.19in a higher level of student proficiency.
7.20    (b) School districts interested in participating in developing and implementing
7.21alternative sustainable model programs in Mandarin Chinese instruction or enhancing
7.22existing successful Mandarin Chinese programs must apply to the education commissioner
7.23in the form and manner the commissioner determines. The application must:
7.24    (1) describe the applicant's capacity for offering a Mandarin Chinese program and
7.25the proposed program model;
7.26    (2) include a plan for program articulation between grades, the development of
7.27Mandarin Chinese benchmarks, and the assessment of students' language proficiency;
7.28    (3) demonstrate an alignment between the target student population and the proposed
7.29program model;
7.30    (4) provide evidence of community and staff support;
7.31    (5) include a plan for sustaining a Mandarin Chinese program beyond the period
7.32of the pilot program; and
7.33    (6) demonstrate an ability to provide matching nonstate funds.
7.34The commissioner may require an applicant to submit additional information.
8.1    Subd. 2. Application review; grant awards; evaluation. (a) Only those applicants
8.2the commissioner determines have successfully complied with subdivision 1 are eligible
8.3to receive a pilot program grant under this section.
8.4    (b) The commissioner may award up to ten pilot program grants. Each grant
8.5recipient is eligible to receive $50,000 in fiscal year 2008 and $50,000 in fiscal year 2009
8.6to implement a Mandarin Chinese program. To the extent feasible, the commissioner must
8.7award the grants to successful applicants of various sizes that are located throughout
8.8the state. Recipients must use the grant awards to implement a new Mandarin Chinese
8.9program or enhance an existing program, consistent with the recipient's application.
8.10    (c) The commissioner must provide for an evaluation of the pilot programs funded
8.11under this section and recommend to the education policy and finance committees of the
8.12legislature by February 15, 2010, how to make available Mandarin Chinese programs to
8.13students in kindergarten through grade 12 throughout the state.
8.14EFFECTIVE DATE.This section is effective the day following final enactment.

8.15    Sec. 8. SCHOOL ADMINISTRATOR TRAINING.
8.16    The commissioner of education, in consultation with postsecondary institutions
8.17and the state Board of School Administrators, must develop and implement week-long,
8.18intensive training sessions for public school district administrators interested in
8.19establishing high-quality, sustainable world language program models. The training
8.20sessions must be similar in structure to the advanced placement training programs offered
8.21by the College Board under Minnesota Statutes, section 120B.13.
8.22EFFECTIVE DATE.This section is effective the day following final enactment.

8.23    Sec. 9. MINNESOTA OFFICE OF HIGHER EDUCATION;
8.24RECOMMENDATIONS FOR DEVELOPING WORLD LANGUAGE
8.25RESOURCES AND EXPERTISE.
8.26    The Minnesota Office of Higher Education under Minnesota Statutes, chapter
8.27136A, must make recommendations to the education policy and finance committees of
8.28the legislature by February 15, 2008, on developing and implementing world language
8.29initiatives in postsecondary settings, including:
8.30    (1) a Mandarin Chinese undergraduate major in four-year colleges and universities;
8.31    (2) high quality Mandarin Chinese instruction in two-year colleges;
8.32    (3) better alignment of world language requirements in secondary schools and
8.33postsecondary institutions;
9.1    (4) development of cross-curricular world language initiatives that enable students
9.2to learn a world language related to a particular course of study such as international
9.3business or politics; and
9.4    (5) development of scholarship programs that allow more students to study abroad.
9.5EFFECTIVE DATE.This section is effective the day following final enactment.

9.6    Sec. 10. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION; FULL-TIME LANGUAGE AND
9.7INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION POSITIONS.
9.8    The Department of Education must establish within the department:
9.9    (1) a full-time world language specialist position to assist school districts in
9.10developing and implementing world language programs;
9.11    (2) a part-time licensing executive position to evaluate and process the licenses
9.12of world language teachers; and
9.13    (3) a full-time international education specialist position to assist school districts
9.14in developing and implementing cross-curricular international or global subject matter
9.15content and to facilitate the work of a task force that must develop Minnesota's
9.16kindergarten through grade 12 world language standards.

9.17    Sec. 11. BILINGUAL AND MULTILINGUAL CERTIFICATES; DEPARTMENT
9.18OF EDUCATION.
9.19    The Department of Education, in consultation with interested stakeholders, must
9.20develop and recommend to the legislature by February 15, 2008, the standards and process
9.21for awarding bilingual and multilingual certificates to those kindergarten through grade
9.2212 students who demonstrate and maintain a requisite level of proficiency in multiple
9.23languages.
9.24EFFECTIVE DATE.This section is effective the day following final enactment.

9.25    Sec. 12. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION APPROPRIATIONS.
9.26    Subdivision 1. Department of Education. The sums indicated in this section
9.27are appropriated from the general fund to the Department of Education for the fiscal
9.28year designated.
9.29    Subd. 2. Pilot program for developing and expanding Mandarin Chinese
9.30programs. For developing and implementing Mandarin Chinese programs and enhancing
9.31existing successful Mandarin Chinese programs:

9.32		$	500,000	.....	2008
9.33		$	500,000	.....	2009

10.1    Subd. 3. School administrators' training. For developing and implementing
10.2week-long, intensive training sessions for public school district administrators interested
10.3in establishing high-quality, sustainable world language programs:

10.4

$

50,000

.....

2008

10.5    Subd. 4. Department of Education world language positions. For the Department
10.6of Education to hire one part-time and two full-time positions related to developing and
10.7implementing world language programs and standards and licensing world language
10.8teachers:

10.9		$	300,000	.....	2008
10.10		$	300,000	.....	2009

10.11    Subd. 5. Alternative teacher preparation scholarships. For providing $2,500
10.12scholarships to 20 qualified Minnesota residents to enroll in alternative teacher preparation
10.13programs leading to licensure as a world language teacher:

10.14		$	100,000	.....	2008
10.15		$	100,000	.....	2009

10.16    Subd. 6. Programs for world language teachers. For establishing and delivering
10.17intensive teacher preparation and development summer programs for Minnesota residents
10.18who are (i) fully proficient in English and another world language, (ii) have a bachelor's
10.19degree from an accredited four-year postsecondary institution, and (iii) are interested
10.20in becoming licensed world language teachers; for providing $10,000 stipends to 25
10.21visiting teachers from China to receive on-site and web-based orientation and professional
10.22development in China, and mentoring and professional development and training in
10.23Minnesota on effective pedagogy and working with Minnesota students for at least one
10.24quarter before beginning to teach in Minnesota; and $100,000 for hiring a highly qualified
10.25Chinese language teacher to serve as a statewide mentor on special assignment to assist
10.26native Chinese language teachers teaching in Minnesota:

10.27		$	700,000	.....	2008
10.28		$	700,000	.....	2009

10.29    Subd. 7. Teacher training. To provide summer professional development programs
10.30in fiscal year 2008 and in fiscal year 2009 for 50 world language teachers to learn to use
10.31technology to deliver high quality language instruction and for summer and academic
10.32year professional development programs to help teachers learn to differentiate language
10.33instruction so that all students can succeed in learning world languages:

11.1		$	100,000	.....	2008
11.2		$	100,000	.....	2009

11.3    Subd. 8. Grants to develop innovative materials. For ten two-year grants
11.4of $20,000 to encourage Mandarin Chinese community language schools to develop
11.5innovative materials and information for the Mandarin Chinese Information and Resource
11.6Center Web site and for Mandarin Chinese programs throughout Minnesota:

11.7

$

200,000

.....

2008

11.8    Subd. 9. Public relations. For hiring a public relations firm to develop and
11.9implement a public relations strategy to inform the public about the development and
11.10implementation of Chinese language programs and initiatives:

11.11

$

50,000

.....

2008

11.12    Sec. 13. MINNESOTA STATE COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES
11.13APPROPRIATIONS.
11.14    Subdivision 1. Minnesota State Colleges and Universities. The sums indicated in
11.15this section are appropriated from the general fund to the Minnesota State Colleges and
11.16Universities for the fiscal years designated.
11.17    Subd. 2. World language teacher preparation. To the Minnesota State Colleges
11.18and Universities for ten grants of $100,000 in fiscal year 2008 and ten grants of $100,000
11.19in fiscal year 2009 to develop, in consultation with the state Board of Teaching, world
11.20language teacher preparation programs leading to licensure as a world language teacher so
11.21that Minnesota has sufficient teacher preparation program capacity to realize a long-term
11.22goal of having all kindergarten through grade 12 students reach a specified level of world
11.23language proficiency 2024-2025 school year, and to provide opportunities for qualified
11.24world language teachers to study abroad:

11.25		$	1,500,000	.....	2008
11.26		$	1,500,000	.....	2009

11.27    Sec. 14. MINNESOTA OFFICE OF HIGHER EDUCATION
11.28APPROPRIATIONS.
11.29    Subdivision 1. Minnesota Office of Higher Education. The sums indicated in
11.30this section are appropriated from the general fund to the Minnesota Office of Higher
11.31Education for the fiscal years designated.
11.32    Subd. 2. Scholarships. To the Minnesota Office of Higher Education for 20 college
11.33scholarships of $2,500 in fiscal year 2008 and of $2,500 in fiscal year 2009 to Minnesota
11.34postsecondary students who are interested in pursuing a teaching degree in world
12.1languages and to postsecondary students who are interested in enrolling in a summer
12.2world language program or in study abroad:

12.3		$	50,000	.....	2008
12.4		$	50,000	.....	2009"

12.5Amend the title accordingly