HF 950 Summary

• Modifies graduation requirements for Minnesota high school students, including reducing elective credits from seven to six and adding earth and space science as a required science option beginning with the 2023-2024 school year.

• Establishes comprehensive school mental health systems and multi-tiered systems of support (MnMTSS) to promote positive school climate, social-emotional learning, and mental health well-being for all students.

• Requires schools to adopt school meal policies prohibiting lunch shaming, ensuring students eligible for free or reduced-price meals are always served regardless of debt, and restricting debt collection communications to parents only.

• Prohibits school districts from using American Indian names, symbols, or images as mascots unless exempted in writing by the Tribal Nations Education Committee and Indian Affairs Council.

• Strengthens teacher diversity goals by setting a requirement for the percentage of teachers of color and American Indian teachers to increase at least two percentage points per year to better reflect Minnesota's increasingly diverse student population by 2040.