H.F. No. 2940 Summary

• Expands educational improvement plans to include measures for improving principal performance in addition to existing teacher and student performance requirements.

• Creates a new teacher development and evaluation aid program providing $169 per pupil enrolled for school districts, charter schools, and cooperative units that develop improvement plans, implement alternative teacher professional pay systems, or demonstrate use of funds for prescribed teacher development activities.

• Establishes principal compensation and development aid at $1,050 and $1,950 per licensed principal respectively for districts with approved educational improvement plans.

• Modifies alternative teacher compensation revenue aid amounts from $260 to $91 per pupil enrolled and reduces cooperative unit aid from $3,000 to $1,050 per licensed teacher.

• Appropriates $87,147,000 for fiscal year 2017 for teacher development and evaluation aid and alternative compensation aid under Minnesota Statutes section 122A.415, effective for revenue in fiscal year 2017.