MN HF4375

Public schools may request documentation to verify a child's age for school admission, including passports, birth certificates, religious records, health records, or parental affidavits, but cannot deny enrollment solely due to lack of a birth certificate.

Early learning scholarship prioritization requires giving highest priority to applications from children with parents under age 21 pursuing a high school diploma, children in foster care or needing protection, or children who experienced homelessness in the last 24 months.

Programs accepting early learning scholarships must participate in the quality rating and improvement system and have a three- or four-star rating beginning when 40 percent of eligible programs have received ratings.

Interagency Early Intervention Committees must include representatives from health, education, human services, Head Start, child care agencies, school readiness programs, and agencies serving families experiencing homelessness, and must meet at least quarterly.

Committee duties include developing public awareness systems for early intervention services, implementing child find systems to identify infants and young children with disabilities, and planning allocation of federal early intervention funds.