1.1.................... moves to amend H.F. No. 2397, the delete everything amendment
1.2(H2397DE1), as follows:
1.3Page 66, delete section 10
1.4Page 70, delete section 11
1.5Page 72, delete section 12 and insert:

1.6    "Sec. 10. Minnesota Statutes 2013 Supplement, section 122A.09, subdivision 4,
1.7is amended to read:
1.8    Subd. 4. License and rules. (a) The board must adopt rules to license public school
1.9teachers and interns subject to chapter 14.
1.10(b) The board must adopt rules requiring a person to pass a skills examination in
1.11reading, writing, and mathematics or attain either a composite score composed of the
1.12average of the scores in English and writing, reading, and mathematics on the ACT
1.13Plus Writing recommended by the board, or an equivalent composite score composed
1.14of the average of the scores in critical reading, mathematics, and writing on the SAT
1.15recommended by the board, as a requirement for initial teacher licensure, except that the
1.16board may issue up to two additional temporary, one-year teaching licenses to an otherwise
1.17qualified candidate who has not yet passed the skills exam or attained the requisite
1.18composite score on the ACT Plus Writing or SAT. Such rules must require college and
1.19universities offering a board-approved teacher preparation program to provide remedial
1.20assistance to persons who did not achieve a qualifying score on the skills examination
1.21 or attain the requisite composite score on the ACT Plus Writing or SAT, including those
1.22for whom English is a second language. The requirement to pass a reading, writing, and
1.23mathematics skills examination or attain the requisite composite score on the ACT Plus
1.24Writing or SAT does not apply to non-native English speakers, as verified by qualified
1.25Minnesota school district personnel or Minnesota higher education faculty, who, after
1.26meeting the content and pedagogy requirements under this subdivision, apply for a
1.27teaching license to provide direct instruction in their native language or world language
2.1instruction under section 120B.022, subdivision 1. A teacher candidate's official ACT
2.2Plus Writing or SAT composite score report to the board must not be more than ten years
2.3old at the time of licensure.
2.4(c) The board must adopt rules to approve teacher preparation programs. The board,
2.5upon the request of a postsecondary student preparing for teacher licensure or a licensed
2.6graduate of a teacher preparation program, shall assist in resolving a dispute between the
2.7person and a postsecondary institution providing a teacher preparation program when the
2.8dispute involves an institution's recommendation for licensure affecting the person or the
2.9person's credentials. At the board's discretion, assistance may include the application
2.10of chapter 14.
2.11(d) The board must provide the leadership and adopt rules for the redesign of teacher
2.12education programs to implement a research based, results-oriented curriculum that
2.13focuses on the skills teachers need in order to be effective. The board shall implement new
2.14systems of teacher preparation program evaluation to assure program effectiveness based
2.15on proficiency of graduates in demonstrating attainment of program outcomes. Teacher
2.16preparation programs including alternative teacher preparation programs under section
2.17122A.245 , among other programs, must include a content-specific, board-approved,
2.18performance-based assessment that measures teacher candidates in three areas: planning
2.19for instruction and assessment; engaging students and supporting learning; and assessing
2.20student learning. The board's redesign rules must include creating flexible, specialized
2.21teaching licenses, credentials, and other endorsement forms to increase students'
2.22participation in language immersion programs, world language instruction, career
2.23development opportunities, work-based learning, early college courses and careers, career
2.24and technical programs, Montessori schools, and project and place-based learning, among
2.25other career and college ready learning offerings.
2.26(e) The board must adopt rules requiring candidates for initial licenses to pass an
2.27examination of general pedagogical knowledge and examinations of licensure-specific
2.28teaching skills. The rules shall be effective by September 1, 2001. The rules under this
2.29paragraph also must require candidates for initial licenses to teach prekindergarten or
2.30elementary students to pass, as part of the examination of licensure-specific teaching
2.31skills, test items assessing the candidates' knowledge, skill, and ability in comprehensive,
2.32scientifically based reading instruction under section 122A.06, subdivision 4, and their
2.33knowledge and understanding of the foundations of reading development, the development
2.34of reading comprehension, and reading assessment and instruction, and their ability to
2.35integrate that knowledge and understanding.
3.1(f) The board must adopt rules requiring teacher educators to work directly with
3.2elementary or secondary school teachers in elementary or secondary schools to obtain
3.3periodic exposure to the elementary or secondary teaching environment.
3.4(g) The board must grant licenses to interns and to candidates for initial licenses
3.5based on appropriate professional competencies that are aligned with the board's licensing
3.6system and students' diverse learning needs. The board must include these licenses in a
3.7statewide differentiated licensing system that creates new leadership roles for successful
3.8experienced teachers premised on a collaborative professional culture dedicated to meeting
3.9students' diverse learning needs in the 21st century and formalizes mentoring and induction
3.10for newly licensed teachers that is provided through a teacher support framework.
3.11(h) The board must design and implement an assessment system which requires a
3.12candidate for an initial license and first continuing license to demonstrate the abilities
3.13necessary to perform selected, representative teaching tasks at appropriate levels.
3.14(i) The board must receive recommendations from local committees as established
3.15by the board for the renewal of teaching licenses.
3.16(j) The board must grant life licenses to those who qualify according to requirements
3.17established by the board, and suspend or revoke licenses pursuant to sections 122A.20 and
3.18214.10 . The board must not establish any expiration date for application for life licenses.
3.19(k) The board must adopt rules that require all licensed teachers who are renewing
3.20their continuing license to include in their renewal requirements further preparation in
3.21the areas of using positive behavior interventions and in accommodating, modifying, and
3.22adapting curricula, materials, and strategies to appropriately meet the needs of individual
3.23students and ensure adequate progress toward the state's graduation rule.
3.24(l) In adopting rules to license public school teachers who provide health-related
3.25services for disabled children, the board shall adopt rules consistent with license or
3.26registration requirements of the commissioner of health and the health-related boards who
3.27license personnel who perform similar services outside of the school.
3.28(m) The board must adopt rules that require all licensed teachers who are renewing
3.29their continuing license to include in their renewal requirements further reading
3.30preparation, consistent with section 122A.06, subdivision 4. The rules do not take effect
3.31until they are approved by law. Teachers who do not provide direct instruction including, at
3.32least, counselors, school psychologists, school nurses, school social workers, audiovisual
3.33directors and coordinators, and recreation personnel are exempt from this section.
3.34(n) The board must adopt rules that require all licensed teachers who are renewing
3.35their continuing license to include in their renewal requirements further preparation,
3.36first, in understanding the key warning signs of early-onset mental illness in children
4.1and adolescents and then, during subsequent licensure renewal periods, preparation may
4.2include providing a more in-depth understanding of students' mental illness trauma,
4.3accommodations for students' mental illness, parents' role in addressing students' mental
4.4illness, Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders, autism, the requirements of section 125A.0942
4.5governing restrictive procedures, and de-escalation methods, among other similar topics.
4.6EFFECTIVE DATE.This section applies to persons applying to the Board of
4.7Teaching for their initial teaching license July 1, 2014, or later.

4.8    Sec. 11. Minnesota Statutes 2013 Supplement, section 122A.18, subdivision 2, is
4.9amended to read:
4.10    Subd. 2. Teacher and support personnel qualifications. (a) The Board of
4.11Teaching must issue licenses under its jurisdiction to persons the board finds to be
4.12qualified and competent for their respective positions.
4.13(b) The board must require a person to pass an examination of skills in reading,
4.14writing, and mathematics or attain either a composite score composed of the average of
4.15the scores in English and writing, reading, and mathematics on the ACT Plus Writing
4.16recommended by the board, or an equivalent composite score composed of the average
4.17of the scores in critical reading, mathematics, and writing on the SAT recommended by
4.18the board, before being granted an initial teaching license to provide direct instruction to
4.19pupils in prekindergarten, elementary, secondary, or special education programs, except
4.20that the board may issue up to two additional temporary, one-year teaching licenses to
4.21an otherwise qualified candidate who has not yet passed the skills exam or attained the
4.22requisite composite score on the ACT Plus Writing or SAT. The board must require
4.23colleges and universities offering a board approved teacher preparation program to make
4.24available upon request remedial assistance that includes a formal diagnostic component
4.25to persons enrolled in their institution who did not achieve a qualifying score on the
4.26skills examination or attain the requisite composite ACT Plus Writing or SAT score,
4.27including those for whom English is a second language. The colleges and universities
4.28must make available assistance in the specific academic areas of candidates' deficiency
4.29in which the person did not achieve a qualifying score. School districts may make
4.30available upon request similar, appropriate, and timely remedial assistance that includes a
4.31formal diagnostic component to those persons employed by the district who completed
4.32their teacher education program, who did not achieve a qualifying score on the skills
4.33examination, including those persons for whom English is a second language and persons
4.34under section 122A.23, subdivision 2, paragraph (h), who completed their teacher's
4.35education program outside the state of Minnesota or attain the requisite composite ACT
5.1Plus Writing or SAT score, and who received a temporary license to teach in Minnesota.
5.2The Board of Teaching shall report annually to the education committees of the legislature
5.3on the total number of teacher candidates during the most recent school year taking the
5.4skills examination, the number who achieve a qualifying score on the examination, the
5.5number who do not achieve a qualifying score on the examination, the distribution of all
5.6candidates' scores, the number of candidates who have taken the examination at least once
5.7before, and the number of candidates who have taken the examination at least once before
5.8and achieve a qualifying score, and the candidates who have not attained the requisite
5.9composite ACT Plus Writing or SAT score or have not passed a content or pedagogy
5.10exam, disaggregated by categories of race, ethnicity, and eligibility for financial aid.
5.11(c) The Board of Teaching must grant continuing licenses only to those persons who
5.12have met board criteria for granting a continuing license, which includes passing the skills
5.13examination in reading, writing, and mathematics or attaining the requisite composite
5.14ACT Plus Writing or SAT score consistent with paragraph (b), and the exceptions in
5.15 section 122A.09, subdivision 4, paragraph (b)., that are consistent with this paragraph.
5.16The requirement to pass a reading, writing, and mathematics skills examination, or
5.17attain the requisite composite score on the ACT Plus Writing or SAT does not apply to
5.18non-native English speakers, as verified by qualified Minnesota school district personnel
5.19or Minnesota higher education faculty, who, after meeting the content and pedagogy
5.20requirements under this subdivision, apply for a teaching license to provide direct
5.21instruction in their native language or world language instruction under section 120B.022,
5.22subdivision 1. A teacher candidate's official ACT Plus Writing or SAT composite score
5.23report to the board must not be more than ten years old at the time of licensure.
5.24(d) All colleges and universities approved by the board of teaching to prepare
5.25persons for teacher licensure must include in their teacher preparation programs a common
5.26core of teaching knowledge and skills to be acquired by all persons recommended
5.27for teacher licensure. This common core shall meet the standards developed by the
5.28interstate new teacher assessment and support consortium in its 1992 "model standards for
5.29beginning teacher licensing and development." Amendments to standards adopted under
5.30this paragraph are covered by chapter 14. The board of teaching shall report annually to
5.31the education committees of the legislature on the performance of teacher candidates
5.32on common core assessments of knowledge and skills under this paragraph during the
5.33most recent school year.
5.34EFFECTIVE DATE.This section applies to persons applying to the Board of
5.35Teaching for their initial teaching license July 1, 2014, or later.

6.1    Sec. 12. Minnesota Statutes 2013 Supplement, section 122A.23, subdivision 2, is
6.2amended to read:
6.3    Subd. 2. Applicants licensed in other states. (a) Subject to the requirements of
6.4sections 122A.18, subdivision 8, and 123B.03, the Board of Teaching must issue a teaching
6.5license or a temporary teaching license under paragraphs (b) to (e) to an applicant who holds
6.6at least a baccalaureate degree from a regionally accredited college or university and holds
6.7or held a similar out-of-state teaching license that requires the applicant to successfully
6.8complete a teacher preparation program approved by the issuing state, which includes
6.9field-specific teaching methods and student teaching or essentially equivalent experience.
6.10(b) The Board of Teaching must issue a teaching license to an applicant who:
6.11(1) successfully completed all exams and human relations preparation components
6.12required by the Board of Teaching; and
6.13(2) holds or held an out-of-state teaching license to teach the same content field and
6.14grade levels if the scope of the out-of-state license is no more than one two grade level
6.15 levels less than a similar Minnesota license.
6.16(c) The Board of Teaching, consistent with board rules and paragraph (h), must
6.17issue up to three one-year temporary teaching licenses to an applicant who holds or held
6.18an out-of-state teaching license to teach the same content field and grade levels, where
6.19the scope of the out-of-state license is no more than one two grade level levels less than
6.20a similar Minnesota license, but has not successfully completed all exams and human
6.21relations preparation components required by the Board of Teaching.
6.22(d) The Board of Teaching, consistent with board rules, must issue up to three
6.23one-year temporary teaching licenses to an applicant who:
6.24(1) successfully completed all exams and human relations preparation components
6.25required by the Board of Teaching; and
6.26(2) holds or held an out-of-state teaching license to teach the same content field and
6.27grade levels, where the scope of the out-of-state license is no more than one two grade
6.28level levels less than a similar Minnesota license, but has not completed field-specific
6.29teaching methods or student teaching or equivalent experience.
6.30The applicant may complete field-specific teaching methods and student teaching
6.31or equivalent experience by successfully participating in a one-year school district
6.32mentorship program consistent with board-adopted standards of effective practice and
6.33Minnesota graduation requirements.
6.34(e) The Board of Teaching must issue a temporary teaching license for a term of
6.35up to three years only in the content field or grade levels specified in the out-of-state
6.36license to an applicant who:
7.1(1) successfully completed all exams and human relations preparation components
7.2required by the Board of Teaching; and
7.3(2) holds or held an out-of-state teaching license where the out-of-state license is
7.4more limited in the content field or grade levels than a similar Minnesota license.
7.5(f) The Board of Teaching must not issue to an applicant more than three one-year
7.6temporary teaching licenses under this subdivision.
7.7(g) The Board of Teaching must not issue a license under this subdivision if the
7.8applicant has not attained the additional degrees, credentials, or licenses required in a
7.9particular licensure field.
7.10(h) The Board of Teaching must require an applicant for a teaching license or a
7.11temporary teaching license under this subdivision to pass a skills examination in reading,
7.12writing, and mathematics or demonstrate, consistent with section 122A.09, subdivision
7.134, the applicant's attainment of either the requisite composite ACT Plus Writing or SAT
7.14score before the board issues the license unless, notwithstanding other provisions of this
7.15subdivision, an applicable board-approved National Association of State Directors of
7.16Teacher Education interstate reciprocity agreement exists to allow fully certified teachers
7.17from other states to transfer their certification to Minnesota without need for additional
7.18exams or other preparation requirements. Consistent with section 122A.18, subdivision 2,
7.19paragraph (b), and notwithstanding other provisions of this subdivision, the board may
7.20issue up to two additional temporary, one-year teaching licenses to an otherwise qualified
7.21applicant who has not yet passed the skills exam.
7.22EFFECTIVE DATE.This section is effective July 1, 2014."
7.23Page 105, delete section 47
7.24Renumber the sections in sequence and correct the internal references
7.25Amend the title accordingly