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MN HF4117
Bill
Status
3/4/2020
Primary Sponsor
Jamie Becker-finn
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AI Summary
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Allows educational data about tribally enrolled or descendant students to be disclosed to tribal nations to support educational attainment, adding a new permitted disclosure category to Minnesota's educational data privacy law.
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Requires the commissioner of education to consider advice from the Tribal Nations Education Committee and representatives from Minnesota's tribal nations and communities (both Anishinaabe and Dakota) when developing statewide core academic standards.
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Prohibits school districts and charter schools from preventing American Indian students from wearing American Indian regalia, tribal regalia, or objects of cultural significance at graduation ceremonies.
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Expands the definition of school board member to include tribal contract school board members for purposes of school finance and management training requirements.
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Modifies the American Indian Education Act to add the Tribal Nations Education Committee and tribal nation representatives as required stakeholders in the development and evaluation of American Indian education programs.
Legislative Description
American Indian Education Act provisions modified; educational data disclosure to tribal nations allowed; consideration of advice from tribal nations, communities, and the Tribal Nations Education Committee required in statewide core academic standards; school districts and charter schools required to allow American Indian students to wear regalia and objects of cultural significance at graduation; and school board member training provision modified.
Last Action
Committee report, to adopt and re-refer to Judiciary Finance and Civil Law Division
3/12/2020