S.F. No. 25 Summary

• Strategic Planning and Diversity Requirements: School boards must adopt comprehensive strategic plans that include culturally relevant curriculum, access to diverse teachers, and evidence-based social-emotional learning to support all student subgroups and close achievement gaps.

• Teacher Evaluation and Diversity Goals: Teacher evaluations must include culturally responsive methodologies, with a state goal to increase teachers of color and American Indian teachers by at least 2 percentage points annually to reach workforce diversity reflecting student demographics by 2040.

• Nonexclusionary Discipline and Student Protections: Schools must implement alternatives to student dismissal including positive behavior interventions, mental health services, and counseling before expulsion; suspended students must have opportunity to complete coursework and preschool children cannot face disciplinary dismissals.

• School Meal Policies and Student Dignity: School districts must adopt written meal policies prohibiting "lunch shaming," ensuring students with meal debt cannot be denied meals or excluded from school activities, and requiring respectful debt collection practices.

• Curriculum Policy and Tribal Engagement: School boards must prohibit discrimination against teachers for incorporating diverse perspectives into curriculum, allow American Indian students to wear tribal regalia at graduation, and ensure tribal nations are consulted on academic standards development.