MN HF1048

Commissioner assistance to districts on effective strategies and best practices becomes voluntary "upon request" rather than a mandatory identification and requirement process.

School boards, rather than the commissioner, determine the number of academic credits granted for accelerated or advanced courses taken outside the district when no comparable course exists locally.

School boards, rather than the commissioner, assure that textbooks and instructional materials loaned to nonpublic school students are secular, neutral, and nonideological.

Innovation zone pilot project reporting responsibility shifts from the commissioner to participating school districts, with annual reports to legislative committees due by February 1.

Removes the commissioner's requirement to submit an interim project report by February 1, 2016, and a final report by February 1, 2019, on whether to continue or expand the innovation zone pilot project.