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Early childhood education program legislative study group established.
Graduation fees prohibited, and report on school district fees required.
Legislative working group on early childhood programs established.
Evidence-based grant standard established for legislative grants awarded to organizations for prekindergarten through grade 12 education programs.
School districts required to conduct radon testing.
Teacher training required to enable a teacher to implement instructional strategies to meet the needs of students with dyslexia.
Display of national motto in school buildings required.
Tiered licensure implementation deadline extended.
School absence for religious observance provisions amended.
P-TECH program to improve pathways from high school to career and college opportunities established, report required, and money appropriated.
School district authority to implement competency-based courses and education programs clarified.
Pupil dismissal complaint procedure provided.
Nonexclusionary pupil disciplinary policies and practices provided, and report required.
Child sexual abuse prevention instruction in a health curriculum modified.
Immunization philosophical exemption removed.
Special education online system addressing achievement and opportunity gaps provided; special education cross-subsidy, teacher recruitment and retention, school safety, and paraprofessional support funded; report required; and money appropriated.
Pupil transportation for pregnant and parenting teens authorized.
Government and citizenship credit required for high school graduation.
Dyslexia screening required.
Help Me Grow program established.
Teacher licensure requirements modified.
Academic balance policy provided.
School lunch providers prohibited from shaming students, meal policies required to be posted to school websites, and supplementary reserve fund created.
Cultural competency training defined for teacher licensure.
Threat assessment teams and oversight committees required, access to criminal history and health records provided, educational data sharing with school threat assessment teams allowed, and money appropriated.
Affirmative consent instruction required, and money appropriated.
Patriotic societies allowed the opportunity to encourage student participation.
Special education working group established, and report required.
Teacher and principal probationary period provisions modified in school districts outside cities of the first class.
Teacher preparation programs required to include instruction on dyslexia.
School counselors allowed to consult with the labor and industry department, and school districts allowed to grant persons promoting careers in skilled trades access to secondary students.
Prekindergarten through grade 12 education provided, including general education, education excellence, teachers, special education, facilities and technology, nutrition, early childhood and family support, and self-sufficiency and lifelong learning.
STEM education definition provided.
School counselor required in every school.
School districts required to publish a summary of crisis management policy, school threat assessment teams and oversight committees established, school boards authorized to bond for security-related equipment, commissioner's review and comment process requirements modified, safe schools revenue established, safe schools revenue use modified, and money appropriated.
Teacher code of ethics codified, background checks required, mandatory reporting expanded, grounds for teacher discharge expanded, and criminal sexual conduct offenses for persons in current or recent positions of authority of juveniles expanded.
Substance misuse prevention instruction grant provided, report required, and money appropriated.
Minnesota State High School League required to exempt foreign exchange students from the transfer ban on varsity competition, and rulemaking provided.
School boards required to adopt student mobile device policies.
Teacher contract deadline created, and penalty for late contracts imposed.
Innovation research zone pilot program modified.
Universal voluntary prekindergarten funded.
State assessments required to be administered in May.
Education commissioner required to review district and charter school curricula, and report required.
Districts required to provide online learning students access to a school site.
Student Data Privacy Act created, and penalties provided.
Child eligibility for the early learning scholarship program modified, administration of the early learning scholarship program modified, targeted home visiting program established for high-risk populations, and money appropriated.
Academic achievement rating system required to track student achievement, academic growth, and achievement gap closure rates in schools and districts.
School counselors encouraged to receive training in armed forces career options, school counselors required to inform students of armed forces career options, and school districts encouraged to grant military recruiters access to secondary students.
Extended time use expanded to pupils enrolled in career and technical education courses.
Compulsory school attendance exemptions modified.
Student Data Privacy Act created, and penalties provided.
Penalties for school employees and independent contractors who have sexual relationships with students established.
School board policy on student deaths required.
Teacher candidates allowed to obtain a Tier 3 license with passing basic skills exams.
Textbook definition modified.
Pupil transportation authority assigned for homeless students, and money appropriated.
Temporary refundable high school youth skills training tax credit established for employers, report required, and money appropriated.
Civics test questions reporting required.
Child safety curriculum required.
School trust land administration transferred, school trust management account established, rulemaking authorized, and report required.
School safety and student support addressed, including modifications to crisis management information, review and comment submissions, and allowable uses of safe schools levy; safe schools levy authority increased; support our students grant program codified; and money appropriated.
Teacher definition clarified.
School districts authorized to renew expiring referendums and capital project referendums by action of school board.
School start times provided.
Early education provisions modified, five regions for the voluntary prekindergarten program established, determination of the total amount of Pathway II scholarships authorized, and school readiness plus made permanent.
Charter school and school district program combination process created, and continuity in building lease revenue for school districts that combine programming with a charter school provided.
Civics class required for high school graduation.
Standardized assessment requirements modified.
Statutes for intermediate districts renumbered.
Legislative auditor requested to conduct a program evaluation of the management of permanent school fund assets.
High school league required to maintain a public rulemaking docket, and eligibility rules hearings provided.
School districts authorized to renew expiring referendums by action of school board.
Education commissioner required to develop child abuse awareness posters.
Directory of cross-references to statutes governing school district flexibility created.
World's best workforce requirements modified.
Legislative Auditor's April 2017 report on the Minnesota State High School League recommendations implemented.
Charter school authorizer requirements amended.
Legislative Permanent School Fund commission directed to evaluate governance changes, and report required.
Secondary school behavior specified for criminal sexual conduct in the third and fourth degrees.
Nationally normed college entrance exam completion allowed as high school graduation requirement.
Districts' safe schools levy authority increased, and school districts authorized to use levy proceeds to enhance cybersecurity.
State assessment length limited.
School facilities improvement revenue established, and money appropriated.
Professional Educator Licensing and Standards Board and Board of School Administrators members and employees made mandated reporters.
Grounds for teacher license revocation, suspension, or denial expanded; and grounds for teacher discharge expanded.
School districts allowed to access personnel files of prospective teachers from their employing districts.
Transportation of nonresident pupils within resident districts modified.
Nonpublic students in grade 10 authorized to participate in career and technical courses offered through the postsecondary enrollment options program.
Charter school admission lotteries modified.
Castle Rock Township enrollment preference for charter school applicants created.
Minimum required pupil transportation distance for all students set.
Student absence from school for religious holidays modified, and employee leave for religious holidays required.
Public school building water lead testing required.
Alternative teacher preparation and compensation programs modified, Teacher Shortage Task Force created, concurrent enrollment teacher program expanded, report required, and money appropriated.
Homeless student additional support provided, professional development opportunities for staff who work with homeless students provided, and money appropriated.
Various education policies modified, programs established, and money appropriated.
Excused absences for students participating in performing arts allowed.
Licensed library media specialist student access grant program established, report required, and money appropriated.
Early learning hub system created, and money appropriated.
Teacher licensing system restructured, Professional Educator Licensing and Standards Board established, all teacher licensing and support personnel licensing and credentialing authority transferred to the Professional Educator Licensing and Standards Board, rulemaking provided, and report required.
Seat belts on newly purchased school buses required.
Adequate school counseling service levels required, and money appropriated.
Education partnerships enhanced, youth development promoted, education partnerships coalition fund established, report required, and money appropriated.
Responsible family life and sexuality education program created.
Voluntary prekindergarten eligibility requirements modified.
Education partnerships enhanced, youth development promoted, education partnerships coalition fund established, report required, and money appropriated.
Testing impact on local resources at school districts and charter schools evaluation requested.
Teachers; unrequested leave of absence provisions modified.
Nationally normed exams allowed to replace Minnesota Comprehensive Assessments.
Public schools required to maintain monthly utility consumption data.
Third-party reimbursement for special education evaluation modified.
Dyslexia and literacy specialist required, and money appropriated.
Increase Teachers of Color Act funding provided, doubling the number of teachers of color and teachers who are American Indian sought, report required, and money appropriated.
Increase Teachers of Color Act funding provided, doubling the number of teachers of color and teachers who are American Indian sought, report required, and money appropriated.
Postsecondary Enrollment Options Act provisions modified, and graduation incentives program amended.
Perpich Center for Arts Education board qualifications modified, employee qualifications modified, and report required.
Early education access fund established, director of early education and development established, enhanced coordination of early education and development programs provided, early education resource hubs authorized, report required, early education programs transferred to the director of early education and development, and money appropriated.
School construction near former landfills prohibited, and notice by schools located near former landfills required.
Gifted and talented programs modified.
Student inclusion and engagement increased, nonexclusionary policies and practices made a central focus of pupil discipline, report required, and money appropriated.
School and licensed child care center drinking water lead-testing required.
Increase Teachers of Color Act funding provided, doubling the number of teachers of color and teachers who are American Indian sought, report required, and money appropriated.
Graduation incentives program eligibility modified.
Prekindergarten through grade 12 education provisions modified.
Gifted and talented funding increased, reporting required, and money appropriated.
Child and Adult Care Food Program administration by the Health Department provided.
Refundable credit for attaining a master's degree in a teacher's licensure field provided.
Academic and behavioral interventions for low-performing and chronically absent students grants authorized, and money appropriated.
Early autism spectrum disorders in young children screening expanded, study group created, rulemaking provided, and report required.
Academic standards modified, child sexual abuse prevention programs established, and report required.
Student data provided, task force established, and money appropriated.
Charter school facilities provided, appropriation bonds authorized, and charter school facilities authority established.
Charter schools serving at-risk student populations contract accountability measures established.
Tiered teacher licensing system established, and rulemaking provided.
School boards authorized to implement flexible learning year programs without education commissioner approval.
Alternative teacher preparation program requirements modified, alternative teacher preparation grant program established, report required, and money appropriated.
Education expense credit and deduction applied to expenditures for prekindergarten expenses.
Underrepresented and disadvantaged girls pilot grant program created to encourage and support exploring and pursuing STEM careers, report required, and money appropriated.
Minnesota school finance reform effort working group established, and money appropriated.
School facilities improvement revenue established, and money appropriated.
Civic online reasoning instruction required.
Perpich Center for Arts Education abolished; Education Department position created, and conveyance of the Perpich Arts High School and Crosswinds Arts and Science School planned.
Early learning and care program quality rating and improvement system modified.
Teacher preparation program summary results disaggregated by race.
Independent School District No. 347, Willmar; extended time revenue calculation for summer instruction modified for pupils in on-site education programs.
Disposition of schoolhouses and sites following closings regulated.
Early Care and Learning Commission created, early care and learning activities across Minnesota coordinated, early care and learning funds authorized to be reallocated, and money appropriated.
School performance reports modified, and school rating system created.
Teaching board directed to adopt standards for an endorsement enabling licensed high school teachers to provide dual enrollment instruction at a high school.
Support services for homeless families system redesign provided, eligibility for early learning scholarships modified, report required, and money appropriated.
Nonexclusionary policies and practices made a central focus of pupil discipline, and money appropriated.
Agricultural educator grant program established, and money appropriated.
Speech and press rights of student journalists in grades 7 through and in postsecondary institutions clarified.
Snow day policy adoption by school boards authorized, and e-learning days for school days with inclement weather authorized.
After-school community learning grant program established, and money appropriated.
Special education academic and behavioral strategist license created.
Open enrollment priorities modified.
Way to Grow home visiting early education pilot program funding provided, and money appropriated.
Educational stability for students in foster care program established, report required, and money appropriated.
Basic sliding fee child care programs modified, eligibility for early learning scholarship modified, system redesign provided, and money appropriated.
Education partnerships enhanced, youth development promoted, education partnerships coalition fund established, and money appropriated.
Schools allowed to maintain a supply of oxygen.
Charter schools allowed to change authorizers.
Charter school closure required to be overseen by a trustee.
Education related expenses definition expanded for the education subtraction and credit to include broadband subscription expenses.
School districts encouraged to notify high school students of advanced placement and international baccalaureate program offerings in science, technology, engineering, and math; grants authorized; and money appropriated.
Propane school buses and fueling station rebates provided, and Pollution Control Agency rebate program established.
Education program approval provided at care and treatment facilities.
Shared time pupils definition expanded.
Early learning programs' eligibility to accept scholarships modified.
School districts and charter schools authorized to create innovation zones, grant program established, and money appropriated.
School inspection schedules and funding revised, school facility fire safety loan program established, and money appropriated.
Voluntary prekindergarten program contracts for mixed delivery of services required.
Public school students allowed to attend courses at nonpublic schools.
Minnesota school districts encouraged to implement science, technology, engineering, and math educational programming with grant funding under the federal Every Student Succeeds Act.
Charter school policy and technical changes made.
Remedial postsecondary enrollment options courses provisions modified.
School board proceedings allowed to be posted online, and referendum notice requirements modified.
General education development term modified.
District procedures to apply for grants clarified.
Professional Educator Licensing and Standards Board established, all teacher licensing and support personnel licensing and credentialing authority transferred to the board, report required, and money appropriated.
State aid new source created for school districts with low general education revenue per pupil and low property wealth per pupil, and money appropriated.
Minnesota Service Cooperatives grant provided to support system collaboration and reduce the achievement gap through effective, data-informed decision-making by teachers and school leaders, and money appropriated.
World's best workforce performance measures and reports modified.
Driver education program access expanded for low-income students, driver education work group established, report required, and money appropriated.
Student assessment results required to be available to school districts and teachers.
Assistive technology plans provided.
Instructional material exemption modified.
K-12 education expense credit modified, credit amount and income phaseout increased, and credit phaseout threshold adjusted for inflation.
Minnesota Service Cooperative No. 924, National Joint Powers Alliance, grant for alternative career pathways authorized, and money appropriated.
Continuing education program for career and technical education licensure established, report required, and money appropriated.
Nonpublic school and charter school pupil program participation modified.
Minnesota's special education system cost-benefit analysis required, and report required.
Public school employees prohibited from using public funds and resources to advocate to pass, elect, or defeat a political candidate, ballot question, or pending legislation.
Schools allowed to maintain a supply of asthma inhalers.
Strategies pursued to prevent over-enrollment of minority students and English learners in special education, dismissing more minority students than other students with disabilities, or placing more minority students in settings other than general education classrooms; and cultural competency emphasized.
Nationally normed college entrance exam required for high school graduation.
Open enrollment priorities modified.
Gifted and talented student program provisions modified, and transitional outcomes improved.
Commissioner mandates reduced; and schools empowered with relation to innovation zones, world's best workforce, advanced academic credit, and textbooks loaned to nonpublic students.
Character development education responsibilities modified.
K-12 scholarship donation credit provided, and K-12 education credit extended to tuition.
K-12 education expense subtraction and credit modified, credit extended to tuition, subtraction and credit amounts increased, income phaseout increased, and credit adjusted for inflation.
Digital student achievement backpack provided.
Voluntary school social worker aid program funding provided, and money appropriated.
School disciplinary actions modified.
Out-of-state teacher requirements to obtain a teaching license in Minnesota established.
Southwest Minnesota State University additional school employee participation authorized for special education teacher program, and appropriation extended.
Innovative delivery of career and technical education pilot project codified and made permanent.
Equity and opportunity in education tax credit provided.
Innovative instruction in inclement weather provided.
Teacher preparation funding directed, and money appropriated.
Civics testing added to required curriculum.
School district authorized to renew an annual food service management contract up to three additional times.
Professional Educator Standards Board established, rulemaking provided, and money appropriated.
Student transition between middle and high school grant funding provided, and money appropriated.
Career and technical education program innovative delivery and sharing of district resources provided.
Prekindergarten education program donation credit provided, districts required to accept scholarships funded by donations, and report required.
Third grade students who do not read at grade level personal learning plan required, and student who does not meet high school standards required to be informed that admission to a public school is free until age 21.
Rural Career and Technical Education Consortium established, report required, and money appropriated.
Choice scholarships for students who have dropped out of high school created, rulemaking authorized, and money appropriated.
Alternative accountability measures for schools created, and federal waiver requested.
School districts required to adopt a policy on recess for elementary school students.
Language proficiency requirements for students studying Latin clarified.
Teaching Board directed to adopt standards for a specialized license, endorsement, or credential for project-based learning; and project based learning proposal required.
Online student data protected, and student digital privacy rights established.
Service-learning integrated into Minnesota's education system, evidence-based service-learning grant program established, and money appropriated.
Student Physical Privacy Act established.
Hendricks school district exempted from general reciprocity agreement.
Student Religious Liberties Act.
Public employee definition amended to include those employed for over 60 days as a replacement teacher or faculty member.
Educator Licensing Board established, responsibilities and duties for licensure of teachers and other personnel transferred to the Board of Educator Licensing, and revisor of statutes directed to prepare a bill for the 2018 legislature.
Student-user privacy in education rights established, online educational services required to comply with security and privacy standards, and student information use for targeted marketing or creation of student profiles prohibited.
Underrepresented population local grants to pursue a teaching career or attain a license in a teacher shortage area provided, and money appropriated.
Counting all students proposed; and aggregated and disaggregated student growth, learning, and outcome data collected and reported.
Driver education program access expanded for low income students, driver education work group established, report required, and money appropriated.
Student support service personnel grant program established, postsecondary institution grant program established, and money appropriated.
Equity and opportunity tax credit provided.
Language proficiency requirements for students studying Latin clarified.
Congressional Medal of Honor focus in character development education encouraged.
K-12 education expense subtraction and credit modified; credit extended to tuition; subtraction and credit amounts increased; income phaseout for the credit increased; and credit, subtraction amount, and credit phaseout threshold adjusted for inflation.
Charter school provisions technical and grammatical corrections made, and erroneous, ambiguous, and omitted text corrected.
Minnesota State High School League gender identity policy codified.
Teacher Shortage Act created, and money appropriated.
Literacy and dyslexia specialists required, and money appropriated.
Early learning scholarships, home visiting programs, and parent aware activities funding increased; early learning scholarship cap eliminated; and eligible age range for early learning scholarships and targeted home visiting program expanded.
Safety incidents involving students and teachers reporting by school districts required.
Public postsecondary institutions directed to give full credit to students for completed Postsecondary Enrollment Options (PSEO) courses, and report required.
Strategies to prevent over-enrolling minority students and English learners in special education and dismissing more minority students with disabilities pursued, cultural competency emphasized, and working group to examine the over-representation established.
Student Discipline Working Group created to review the substance, application, and effect of Minnesota's Pupil Fair Dismissal Act and make recommendations to the legislature.
Suicide prevention training for teachers renewing their teaching license required.
After-school community learning grant program established, and money appropriated.
School tickets and admissions sales tax exemption made permanent.
Teacher tax credit and provisions addressing teacher shortages provided, and money appropriated.
Struggling student pilot project to help those in grades 3 to 5 read at grade level established, and money appropriated.
K-12 teacher licensure and professional development tax credit allowed.
State value-added growth model modified.
Student preparation guidelines offered.
State fund to pay for unreimbursed special education costs created, tuition bill-backs to the resident school district eliminated, special education excess cost aid increased, and money appropriated.
2014 reading tax credit modified and made permanent.
School house closing process citizen involvement encouraged.
Perpich Center for Arts Education board structure amended and additional oversight provided.
MinneK voluntary prekindergarten program created, age range for early learning scholarships expanded, Head Start waiting list eliminated, education grants and loan forgiveness for prospective early education teachers created, early childhood learning and child protection facilities funding provided, report required, bonds issued, and money appropriated.
Early childhood and prekindergarten through grade 12 education, including general education, education excellence, charter schools, special education, facilities and technology, and sufficiency and lifelong learning provided.
Legislative study group established to review the legislative auditor's 2016 report on kindergarten through grade 12 teacher licensure and consider how to implement the recommendations, and Board of Teaching report required.
Grow Your Own teacher residency pilot program established, and money appropriated.
Legislative study group established to review the legislative auditor's 2016 report on kindergarten through grade 12 teacher licensure and consider how to implement the recommendations, and Board of Teaching report required.
Parent's responsibility to educate child clarified.
Prekindergarten educational program credit for donations provided, districts required to accept scholarships funded by donations, and report required.
Student retention in grade 3 if student is not reading at grade level allowed.
Education Savings Accounts for Students in Low-Performing Schools Act created, and money appropriated.
Girls and women of color financial literacy competitive grant funding provided, report required, and money appropriated.
Girls of color academic success pilot grant program created, report required, and money appropriated.
Girls of color pilot grant program to encourage and support exploring and pursuing STEM careers created, report required, and money appropriated.
All students, including low income and minority students, provided with improved and equitable access to effective and more diverse teachers.
Minnesota Council on Economic Education grant funding provided, and money appropriated.
Statewide outdoor place-based education plan advisory group established, outdoor place-based education program established, report required, and money appropriated.
School resource officer standards, training, and relationship between the schools and officers review task force establish; and report required.
Nonexclusionary policies and practices made a central focus of pupil discipline, and money appropriation.
Legislative task force to review the legislative auditor's 2016 report on kindergarten through grade 12 teacher licensure and consider how to implement the recommendations established.
Teacher performance-based pay system provided, and money appropriated.
Special election timeline to fill a vacancy on a school board modified, and recall elections for school board members authorized.
Education commissioner's authority to adopt desegregation and integration rules for Minnesota's public schools clarified, and eligible districts defined in statute.
Special election timeline to fill a vacancy on a school board modified.
Physical education standards and benchmarks provided.
Alternative teacher preparation grant program established, and money appropriated.
School years beginning after labor day requirement exceptions modified.
Teacher student loan payment tax credit allowed.
Innovation in education opportunities expanded.
Unclaimed lottery prize money dedicated for acquisition of school trust lands, and money appropriated.
Teachers trained in other states licensure requirements modified.
Parental responsibility in guiding the educational experience of a child defined.
Legislative task force to review the legislative auditor's 2016 report on kindergarten through grade 12 teacher licensure and consider how to implement the recommendations established.
School district reports made optional.
Fire safety compliance for solar panels installed at schools required.
Recall elections for schools board members authorized.
Graduation incentive program funding to pupils between the ages of 21 and 24 extended, and money appropriated.
Charter schools serving at-risk student populations additional accountability measures established.
Principals' Leadership Institute provisions modified, and money appropriated.
Charter school closure overseeing by trustee required.
Contracts for information systems software excluded from the bidding process.
School member board vacancy requirement to be filled by special election repealed.
Statutes governing parental rights in education cross-reference directory created.
Teacher development and evaluation opportunities for all school districts expanded, alternative compensation program modified, and money appropriated.
Homeless student additional support provided, professional development opportunities for staff who work with homeless students created, and money appropriated.
School member board vacancy requirement to be filled by special election repealed.
State high school graduation requirements amended, and students required to demonstrate knowledge of civics as a condition of receiving a high school diploma.
Teaching Board directed to adopt standards for an endorsement enabling licensed high school teachers to provide dual enrollment instruction at a high school.
Education commissioner directed to develop plan to ensure privacy and security of students' personally identifiable information.
Kindergarten through grade 5 after-school, culturally focused arts program to improve the reading, math, and life skills of underperforming students provided; and money appropriated.
Voluntary school social worker aid program funding provided, and money appropriated.
Teacher powered school grants provided, and money appropriated.
Open enrollment lottery process priority for children of district staff required.
Open enrollment priorities identified.
Student privacy in personal electronic devices on campus protected, and civil penalties provided.
Student privacy with respect to electronic data in student information systems protected, and penalties provided.
On-site education programs located at a care and treatment facility qualified as learning year programs, and money appropriated.
Board of Educator Licensing established, licensure of teachers and supervisory and support personnel responsibilities and duties transferred to the Board of Educator Licensing, and revisor of statutes directed to prepare a bill for the 2017 legislature.
Student privacy in data on electronic devices provided by an educational institution protected, and penalties provided.
Schools honoring students' Do Not Resuscitate, Do Not Intubate, and Allow Natural Death orders required.
Charter school provisions modified.
Public testimony before a school board reauthorized board-approved referendum revenue authority required, and school board approval of local optional revenue required.
Tiered teacher licensing system established.
Empowering Parents Act enacted, and curriculum review procedures and prohibitions established.
Board of Teaching membership changed.
Green school construction task force established, report required, and money appropriated.
First Amendment speech and press rights of student journalists in kindergarten through grade 12 clarified.
School board member recall elections authorized, and procedures for filing a vacancy in a school board office modified.
Parents of prekindergarten children who are eligible for special education services and have a primary disability of being deaf or hard-of-hearing enrollment in a charter school serving a special education population of primarily deaf and hard-of-hearing allowed, enrollment process established, and money appropriated.
School board vacancy filling modified.
Licensing teachers trained in other states clarified.
Student data access addressed, disclosure requirements affecting personally identifiable information about a student clarified, information in electronic student education records managed, student survey requirements established, and civil penalties provided.
Student who assaults a teacher expulsion from school required.
Excused absences for students participating in performing arts allowed.
Deaf and hard-of-hearing and the blind and visually impaired advisory committees report modified.
Full service community schools provided, and money appropriated.
State high school graduation requirements modified, and students required to demonstrate knowledge of civics as a condition of receiving a high school diploma.
Statewide swimming resources examined and developed for public schools, and report required.
Trespass crime expanded to include trespassing on a school bus.
Student discipline provisions modified.
Concurrent enrollment provided, and money appropriated.
Commercial motor vehicle road test requirements for school bus endorsement modified, and third-party testing provisions for school bus companies modified.
Education expense credit and deduction provided to apply to expenditures for prekindergarten expenses.
Universal all-day preschool provided for four-year-old students.
Hmong and Southeast Asian children and family program provided to engage in accessing early childhood care and education, health and developmental screening, and reading assessments.
Agricultural educator grant program established, and money appropriated.
Charter school authorizer recommendations required.
Educational partnership fund established, and money appropriated.
Athletic team participation provided, and Student Physical Privacy Act established.
Career pathway coordinators provided, reports required, funding provided for career pathways coordinators and the Minnesota youth program, and money appropriated.
School bus driver's license endorsement issuance requirements modified.
Information technology certifications through public-private partnership provided, and money appropriated.
School and district data reported on foreign exchange and study abroad programs, foreign exchange and study abroad programs and policies encouraged, and money appropriated.
Teacher shortage loan forgiveness program provided, rulemaking authorized, and money appropriated.
School reporting requirements modified, and report required.
Homeless children qualified for early educational services, and money appropriated.
Data on homeless and highly mobile students reported.
Foreign language proficiency levels required for proficiency certificates and gold and platinum bilingual and multilingual state seals clarified, Minnesota State Colleges and Universities directed to award academic credit, and advisory task force on assessing students' foreign language proficiency established.
Voting age lowered to 16 in school district elections, and constitutional amendment proposed.
Global workforce development grant program established, and money appropriated.
School board required to publicly inform parents of a decision to keep available instructional materials a parents considers harmful to minors.
School crisis response team coordination help by the education commissioner authorized.
Education policy provided including educator preparation, licensure, accountability, statewide standards, student assessments, educating students and young children, education programs, special education, charter schools, general education, libraries, other facilities, technology, and state agencies; and money appropriated.
Education Savings Accounts for Students with Special Needs Act created, and money appropriated.
Suicide prevention training required, report required, and money appropriated.
Excellence in teaching program established, and money appropriated.
Pupil unit provisions modified.
Special School District No. 1, Minneapolis, dissolved; transition and operation of successor school districts provided; and money appropriated.
Underrepresented student populations recruited, educated, and licensed to teach in elementary and secondary schools; tax credit for teacher preparation program-related expenses provided; grants provided; and money appropriated.
Online student data protected, and student digital privacy rights established.
School year-long student teaching programs made part of teacher preparation, and money appropriated.
Global education to workforce initiative program established, and money appropriated.
Student placement provided.
Digital student achievement backpack provided.
Student member required to serve on a school board.
School districts allowed to compensate effective and highly effective teachers teaching in hard-to-staff settings.
Advanced placement and international baccalaureate program requirements clarified, and money appropriated.
Girls in Action pilot program funding provided, and money appropriated.
Teacher licensure provided.
School trust land condemnation provided.
Career and technical educator licensing work group established.
Curriculum review provisions modified.
Board of Teaching and School Administrators Board provided expanded list of offenses authorizing denial or revocation of a teaching license, and list of offenses conformed with grounds for immediate discharge.
Statewide testing requirements confirmed to apply to nonpublic and home school students and out-of-state students transferring into Minnesota public schools.
School event announcement for location of nearby defibrillators required.
Alternative teacher preparation grant program established, and money appropriated.
Alternative accountability measures for schools created.
School readiness teachers required to be licensed, teacher licensure requirements for early childhood family education programs clarified, and teacher definition clarified.
Charter school statutes recodified, technical corrections made, and obsolete and duplicative provisions removed.
Early learning scholarship parameters clarified, and money appropriated.
Minnesota teaching license issuance to out-of-state applicants requirements clarified.
Property used to provide services to school district employees exempted from taxation.
Student Physical Privacy Act established.
Charter school students allowed to participate in extracurricular activities of their resident district.
Sexual assault and sexual harassment policies required to contain affirmative consent standard, good-faith reporting of incidents encouraged, sexual harassment and sexual violence outreach and prevention required, grant program to create a consent curriculum established, and money appropriated.
Board of Teaching directed to adopt standards for an endorsement enabling licensed high school teachers to provide dual enrollment instruction at a high school.
Student assessment provisions modified, and number of required state tests reduced.
Language excluding retired principals who serve as a substitute principal removed from continuing education requirements.
K-12 education expense credit modified, credit amount and income phaseout for the credit increased, and credit phaseout threshold adjusted for inflation.
Career and technical education funding provisions modified.
School counseling service adequate levels required, and money appropriated.
Principals' Leadership Academy provisions modified, and money appropriated.
Carver, Scott, and Le Sueur Counties; new intermediate school district created.
Practice or student teacher placement provided.
Parental review of curriculum clarified.
Authorizers empowered to terminate contracts based on student performance.
School district restrictive procedure provisions modified, training and technical assistance provided to school districts to reduce the use of seclusion and restraint, and money appropriated.
Childhood literacy provisions modified.
Teacher licensure and employment conditions clarified; alternative teacher licensure amended; teacher licensure reciprocity provided; license via portfolio, exemption, and unrequested leaves of absence and teaching assignment decisions clarified; school administrators prohibited from placing students with ineffective teachers; and teacher skills examination requirements clarified.
Charter schools allowed to give enrollment preference to children who are eligible for a free or reduced-price lunch.
Board of Teaching provisions modified, and money appropriated.
Compulsory attendance age lowered from seven to six.
Postsecondary credit provisions modified.
School districts required to contract with student information system vendors that are able to seamlessly transfer records of students with disabilities.
Board of Teaching directed to adopt standards for a specialized license, endorsement, or credential for project-based learning; and project-based learning proposal required.
Teacher mentorship program importance reaffirmed, and money appropriated.
Student surveys and similar instruments notice requirements established.
Choice scholarships for students who have dropped out of high school created, rulemaking authorized, and money appropriated.
School districts required to unseal expunged criminal records for prospective teachers.
School calendar provisions modified.
Pilot project compensatory revenue made permanent.
Independent School District No. 761, Owatonna; public school revenue authorization referendum clarified.
College concurrent enrollment program full funding provided, and money appropriated.
List of offenses authorizing a denial or revocation of a teaching license by the Board of Teaching or School Administrators Board expanded.
Service-learning integrated into Minnesota's education system, evidence-based service-learning grant program established, task force for teacher preparation and licensure requirements related to service-learning provided, and money appropriated.
Reading tax credit modified.
K-12 teachers who complete master's degree in a content area directly related to their licensure field allowed tax credit, and money appropriated.
Public school bullying provisions modified.
Compulsory school attendance age increased to 18 years of age.
Multidisability teaching license provided.
School district employee health coverage provisions amended.
School districts required to unseal expunged criminal records for prospective teachers.
Multidisability teaching license provided.
Independent School District No. 402, Hendricks; general reciprocity agreement exemption provided.
Public high school students required to take the Minnesota comprehensive assessments to graduate.
Sponsored agriculture education community experts allowed.
Elementary and Secondary Education Act; a resolution urging the President and Congress to overhaul the Elementary and Secondary Education Act.
Brain development included in required services under family home visiting program.
School personnel notice and reporting requirements added.
Teacher efficacy preparation programs approved by state Board of Teaching data collected and reported, and money appropriated.
Individualized education program provisions modified.
School board member terms required to run concurrently.
Directory information definition changed to conform with federal law.
Complaint or charge data on teachers who resign or are terminated made public, release of personnel data on school employees to other schools required, and definitions of maltreatment of minors provided.
Teaching license granted to public postsecondary faculty experienced in teaching subjects for which secondary and postsecondary credits are available.
Independent School Districts No. 2904, Tracy; No. 2689, Pipestone; and No. 330, Heron Lake-Okabena; starting school year before Labor Day permitted.
Enhanced debt service equalization for school districts provided.
Recess policy for elementary school students required to be adopted by school districts.
High school league provisions modified.
Independent School District Nos. 640, Wabasso; 635, Milroy; 378, Dawson-Boyd; and 891, Canby; starting school year before Labor Day permitted.
Early brain development prioritized in the early childhood family education home visiting program.
Tax credit for contributions to school angel funds provided.
Early learning scholarship program funding increased, early learning scholarship applications prioritized, and money appropriated.
School districts allowed to begin school year before Labor Day.
School board-approved revenue authority reverse referendum authorized; and public school employees prohibited from using public funds and resources to advocate, pass, elect, or defeat a political candidate, ballot question, or pending legislation.
Independent School District No. 347, Willmar; starting school year before Labor day permitted.
Independent School Districts No. 2164, Dilworth-Glyndon-Felton; No. 146, Barnesville; and No. 2854, Ada-Borup; starting school year before Labor Day permitted.
Legislative auditor's 2013 report on special education portions implemented.
Independent School District No. 345, New London-Spicer; starting school year before Labor Day permitted.
Concurrent enrollment course study required.
Independent School District No. 2853, Lac qui Parle Valley; starting school year before Labor Day permitted.
General education, extended day programs, special education, English Language learner programs funding increased; and universal preschool programs funding phased in.
Alternative teacher licensure amended, and teacher license reciprocity allowed.
Health and safety revenue expanded to include facility modifications to make school facilities more secure for students and staff.
Nontraditional instructional program choices ensured, students' personal learning plans modified, and report required.
Enrollment option provisions modified.
Computer science course credit allowed to fulfill a math credit requirement.
Teacher skill examination requirements clarified.
Type III vehicle definition changed.
Postsecondary enrollment options program information provided to students and parents.
Teacher placement on unrequested leaves of absence or discontinuing or terminating teachers requirements modified.
Independent School District No. 2884, Red Rock Central; starting school year before Labor Day permitted.
State math standards statutory review postponed.
State English learner aid generation requirement modified.
Teacher and principal evaluation result reports required.
Employment and economic development career counseling service funding provided, and money appropriated.
9th and 10th grade students authorized to enroll in concurrent enrollment world language courses.
Children under age seven who voluntarily enroll in school subject to compulsory attendance law.
School start date of September 1 for the 2015-2016 school year authorized.
School start date of September 1 for the 2015-2016 school year authorized.
K-12 teachers who complete master's degree in a content area directly related to their licensure field allowed tax credit, and money appropriated.
Independent School District No. 129, Montevideo; starting school year before Labor Day permitted.
Charter schools serving at-risk student populations additional accountability measures established.
Independent School District No. 2534, Bird Island-Olivia-Lake Lillian; starting school year before Labor Day permitted.
Independent School District No. 2890, Renville County West; starting school year before Labor Day permitted.
Independent School District No. 777, Benson; starting school year before Labor Day permitted.
Independent School District No. 2159, Buffalo Lake-Hector-Stewart; starting school year before Labor Day permitted.
Public employee definition amended to include replacement employees who are employed for more than 60 days as a replacement teacher or faculty member.
Teacher licensure interstate reciprocity agreements provided.
Student Religious Liberties Act established.
School endowment fund apportionment future increases reserved for early learning programs.
School boards authorized to implement flexible learning year programs without approval by education commissioner.
Teacher licensure provisions modified.
Success for All program established, and money appropriated.
21st century skills development pilot project created, and money appropriated.