Bill Text: MN SF52 | 2011-2012 | 87th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Student counseling services in high-need public high schools grant program and appropriation
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-01-18 - Referred to Education [SF52 Detail]
Download: Minnesota-2011-SF52-Introduced.html
1.2relating to education; establishing a grant program to provide additional student
1.3counseling services in high-need public high schools; appropriating money.
1.4BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:
1.5 Section 1. GRANT PROGRAM; STUDENT COUNSELING SERVICES IN
1.6HIGH-NEED PUBLIC HIGH SCHOOLS.
1.7(a) Recognizing the detrimental effect of student mobility on students' educational
1.8achievement and the disproportionate impact that student mobility has on the most
1.9disadvantaged schools, a grant program for fiscal years 2012 and 2013 is established to
1.10provide additional student counseling services in high-need public high schools where the
1.11student mobility rate in the preceding school year exceeded 25 percent and has a student
1.12population of 100 or more enrolled in grades 7 through 12.
1.13(b) Interested school districts in which a high school is located having a student
1.14mobility rate in the preceding school year that exceeded 25 percent and has a student
1.15population of 100 or more enrolled in grades 7 through 12 may apply to the education
1.16commissioner, in the form and manner the commissioner determines, for a student
1.17counseling services grant. The application must provide evidence of the requisite student
1.18mobility rate and include a plan indicating how the applicant's eligible high school will
1.19use the grant to provide needed counseling services to highly mobile students. The
1.20commissioner may require additional information from an applicant.
1.21(c) The commissioner must determine that the applicant has satisfied the
1.22requirements of paragraph (b) before awarding grants. The commissioner may award one
1.23grant per qualified school district on a first-come, first-served basis and until the grant
1.24appropriation is expended. The commissioner must determine the amount of the grant
2.1based on the number of students enrolled in the high school at the start of the current
2.2school year. Grantees must use the grant to provide needed counseling services to highly
2.3mobile students and must not use grant funds to supplant existing counseling services.
2.4(d) The commissioner must provide for an evaluation of the high school grant sites
2.5and recommend to the education policy and finance committees of the legislature by
2.6February 15, 2014, whether the program to provide additional student counseling services
2.7in high-need public high schools should be made available statewide.
2.8EFFECTIVE DATE.This section is effective the day following final enactment.
2.9 Sec. 2. APPROPRIATION.
2.10$....... in fiscal year 2012 and $....... in fiscal year 2013 are appropriated from the
2.11general fund to the commissioner of education for the purpose of providing grants to
2.12provide additional student counseling services in high-need public high schools under
2.13section 1. Any balance in the first year does not cancel but is available in the second year.
1.3counseling services in high-need public high schools; appropriating money.
1.4BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:
1.5 Section 1. GRANT PROGRAM; STUDENT COUNSELING SERVICES IN
1.6HIGH-NEED PUBLIC HIGH SCHOOLS.
1.7(a) Recognizing the detrimental effect of student mobility on students' educational
1.8achievement and the disproportionate impact that student mobility has on the most
1.9disadvantaged schools, a grant program for fiscal years 2012 and 2013 is established to
1.10provide additional student counseling services in high-need public high schools where the
1.11student mobility rate in the preceding school year exceeded 25 percent and has a student
1.12population of 100 or more enrolled in grades 7 through 12.
1.13(b) Interested school districts in which a high school is located having a student
1.14mobility rate in the preceding school year that exceeded 25 percent and has a student
1.15population of 100 or more enrolled in grades 7 through 12 may apply to the education
1.16commissioner, in the form and manner the commissioner determines, for a student
1.17counseling services grant. The application must provide evidence of the requisite student
1.18mobility rate and include a plan indicating how the applicant's eligible high school will
1.19use the grant to provide needed counseling services to highly mobile students. The
1.20commissioner may require additional information from an applicant.
1.21(c) The commissioner must determine that the applicant has satisfied the
1.22requirements of paragraph (b) before awarding grants. The commissioner may award one
1.23grant per qualified school district on a first-come, first-served basis and until the grant
1.24appropriation is expended. The commissioner must determine the amount of the grant
2.1based on the number of students enrolled in the high school at the start of the current
2.2school year. Grantees must use the grant to provide needed counseling services to highly
2.3mobile students and must not use grant funds to supplant existing counseling services.
2.4(d) The commissioner must provide for an evaluation of the high school grant sites
2.5and recommend to the education policy and finance committees of the legislature by
2.6February 15, 2014, whether the program to provide additional student counseling services
2.7in high-need public high schools should be made available statewide.
2.8EFFECTIVE DATE.This section is effective the day following final enactment.
2.9 Sec. 2. APPROPRIATION.
2.10$....... in fiscal year 2012 and $....... in fiscal year 2013 are appropriated from the
2.11general fund to the commissioner of education for the purpose of providing grants to
2.12provide additional student counseling services in high-need public high schools under
2.13section 1. Any balance in the first year does not cancel but is available in the second year.
