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MN HF34
Bill
Status
9/11/2020
Primary Sponsor
Ron Kresha
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AI Summary
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School boards may adopt a written safe learning plan allowing them to provide distance instruction, on-site instruction, or hybrid instruction for the 2020-2021 school year, notwithstanding governor executive orders or commissioner guidance.
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Distance instruction requires daily interactions between students and licensed teachers with access online and by telephone during normal school hours and days.
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Parents may choose to enroll their student in a parent-based distance learning program where the parent provides instruction while the school continues to count the student for funding and provides computers, textbooks, software, and internet access.
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School boards may reduce the annual school calendar to fewer than 165 days and structure the 2020-2021 year as a four-day week schedule.
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School districts and charter schools gain expanded flexibility to transfer funds between accounts and redirect reserved or restricted revenue for fiscal years 2020-2021 upon board approval and with proper accounting documentation.
Legislative Description
2020-2021 school year; school boards authorized to establish a safe learning plan, parent-based distance learning program established, school calendar modified, school district fund transfer flexibility extended, distance learning defined, and report required.
Last Action
Introduction and first reading, referred to Education Policy
9/11/2020