H.F. 3149 Summary

• School districts are encouraged to provide experiential and applied learning programs including magnet schools, language immersion, project-based learning, career and technical education, Montessori schools, military schools, work-based schools, and place-based learning.

• Districts offering these programs must publicly adopt and review a plan defining the program structure, enrollment process, assessment measures, and evaluation outcomes published on the district website.

• Modifies P-TECH approval process to require school board plan adoption instead of commissioner application determination, with school board plans containing information about partnerships, school design, facilities, budgets, curriculum, and employment qualifications.

• Changes innovation zone partnership approval process by removing requirement for commissioner approval before extending membership to new partners and making commissioner's role advisory rather than approving.

• Reorganizes education innovation statutes by renumbering Laws 2017, First Special Session chapter 5, article 2, section 52 and sections 124D.085, 124D.093, and related provisions into new chapter 124F.