MN SF2222

School boards must adopt strategic plans that include processes to assess, identify, and accelerate gifted and talented students, and report on numbers of students assessed, identified, and accelerated through gifted-education procedures.

Gifted and talented students are defined to include students of all income levels, cultural and language groups, varying abilities or disabilities, and twice-exceptional students identified as having outstanding abilities or potential for high performance in intellectual functioning, academics, creativity, leadership, or visual and performing arts.

School districts must adopt guidelines for identifying gifted students using research-supported instruments that are inclusive, and assessment procedures must be sensitive to underrepresented groups including low-income, minority, twice-exceptional, and English learners.

School districts must develop research-supported programs addressing social-emotional and cognitive needs, provide professional development for staff on gifted student needs, and establish academic acceleration procedures and early admission policies for qualified gifted and talented students.

Gifted and talented revenue per district increases from $13 to $39 per adjusted pupil unit, and districts must report to the commissioner on state-funded services including achievement data disaggregated by student quartiles, satisfaction levels, and spending breakdown by service category.