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Procedures to fill a school board vacancy modified.
Site-governed school requirements modified.
Postsecondary institutions required to notify a pupil's school of the pupil's grades, and number of college credits granted each school year for postsecondary course enrollment limited.
Student eligibility for postsecondary enrollment options participation established.
Anonymous reporting systems required, and report required.
School district or charter school allowed to opt out of statewide assessments.
Cardiopulmonary resuscitation training and automated external defibrillator training for coaches required.
Certain terms in libraries' electronic book and digital audiobook license agreements or contracts prohibited.
Dual Enrollment Task Force established, report required, and money appropriated.
Office of General Counsel required to provide guidance on law enforcement actions for the Department of Education.
Five-member school boards provided.
Interagency Council on Student Attendance established, report required, and money appropriated.
Crisis management policy requirements modified.
Teacher licensure provisions modified, maltreatment reporting requirements modified, and licensing data classification modified.
Disciplinary dismissal in kindergarten through grade 3 allowed.
Average daily membership and pupil units for certain students who are not residents of Minnesota and who are enrolled in online instruction in a Minnesota school modified.
Public library access by officials engaged in immigration enforcement limited.
School districts that provide digital instruction allowed to administer state assessments remotely.
Read Act amended to provide for ongoing curriculum review.
Minnesota State High School League members required to allow broadcast over public access channels.
Milk offerings for participants in the national school lunch program clarified.
Climate literacy seal established, and report required.
Field trip policy established, reporting to licensing boards required, and criminal offense of grooming established.
Circumstances when firearms are permitted on school property modified, and uniform storage requirements for firearms permitted on school property established.
Minnesota State High School League required to contract for catastrophic accident insurance, catastrophic injury payments required, and subtraction from income provided.
Cell phone use in schools restricted, and money appropriated.
Access to relationship-building and de-escalation training in schools required, and money appropriated.
Read Act modified, appropriations cancelled; education innovation provisions modified; P-TECH approval process modified; Office of Achievement and Innovation established in the Department of Education; equity, diversity, and inclusion appropriation modified; school performance reporting system established; fund transfers for fiscal years 2025 through 2029 authorized; and school board authorized to not comply with recently enacted state laws or rules.
Anonymous reporting systems required, and report required.
Screen time prohibited for children in preschool and kindergarten.
Early literacy field experience required for teacher candidates providing early literacy instruction, rulemaking required, and money appropriated.
Disciplinary dismissals for students in early learning programs modified.
Pilot program established to improve educational outcomes, safety, and accountability for students with disabilities; reports required; and money appropriated.
Notice of procedural safeguards for special education required.
High school diploma established for armed forces veterans.
Referendum ballot language clarified by correcting an obsolete reference to school district referendum by petition.
Requirements for gifted and talented programs and services modified, commissioner required to report gifted and talented program data, revenue increased, and money appropriated.
Education policy for kindergarten through grade 12 education modified, charter school policy modified, and state agency policy modified.
Interstate teacher mobility compact established.
Teacher Microcredential Task Force established, report required, and money appropriated.
Denial of an education based on immigration status prohibited, and civil cause of action provided when right to education is denied based on immigration status.
Provisions for educator licensing and standards modified, rulemaking authority for paraprofessional credentials modified, additional data sharing agreements provided, professional development requirements for mental health modified, and appropriation extended.
Read Act interventions modified.
School districts allowed to implement local health education standards.
High school students allowed to possess and administer opiate antagonists.
School Health Advisory Committee created, and reports required.
Anonymous threat reporting systems required, and report required.
Classroom instruction related to gender identity prohibited in public schools; parental notification required; grant program to include firearms safety, trap shooting, archery, hunting, and angling in school physical education courses established; and money appropriated.
Classroom instruction related to gender identity in public schools prohibited, and parental notification required.
Grant program to include firearms safety, trap shooting, archery, hunting, and angling in school physical education courses established; and money appropriated.
Education innovation provided, innovation zone provisions modified, P-TECH approval process modified, and Education Innovation recodified and reorganized.
Access to school sites limited.
Department of Education required to bring awareness of library services for blind and print disabled persons.
Student discipline provisions modified.
Social studies standards adoption suspended and review cycle modified, ethnic studies requirements repealed, and ethnic studies appropriations cancelled.
Student and staff safety measures required to be included in each school district's long-term facilities maintenance school facility plan, school security systems grants created, report required, and money appropriated.
Education; female sports team participation restricted to the female sex.
mRNA Bioweapons Prohibition Act; mRNA injections and products designated as weapons of mass destruction, and mRNA injections and products prohibited.
Definition of gifted and talented students clarified.
Water safety instruction required in health curriculum.
School districts encouraged to commemorate Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month.
Student teacher placement within 30 miles of their preferred location or school site required, teacher candidate performance assessment requirements removed, and rulemaking required.
Open Meeting Law; classification of school district superintendent and school principal applicant data as private authorized, and closed meetings for school district superintendent and school principal interviews authorized.
Overdose prevention education required in substance use model program.
Active transportation safety training deadlines eliminated.
Charter school authorizer provisions modified.
Education policy bill.
Legislative study group established to study graduation requirements, reports required, and money appropriated.
Teacher licensure requirements modified, professional development on dyslexia required, and rulemaking required.
Commissioner of education directed to amend the state's accountability plan.
E-learning day requirements modified, and terms and conditions of employment for school employees modified.
Female sports team participation restricted to the female sex.
Computer science grants established, local computer science standards encouraged, rulemaking required, and money appropriated.
Public schools required to offer plant-based meal options.
Nationally recognized college entrance exam administration allowed.
Epinephrine access in schools requirements modified.
Parental curriculum review provisions clarified.
Civic seal designation for high school students provided.
School year allowed to start before Labor Day for the 2026-2027 and 2027-2028 school years only.
References to statutes governing student attendance provided.
Student attendance provisions modified, reporting requirements modified, and notification procedures for student absences and reenrollment modified.
CPR and AED instruction provisions modified to include the Health and Safety Institute.
Office of the Inspector General provisions modified; access to records provided; data classified; immunity and confidentiality in reporting or participating in an investigation provided; process for notice, appeal, and withholding of payments established; and fraud, theft, waste, and abuse definitions modified.
Paraprofessional qualifications defined.
Sexually transmitted diseases school district education program requirements modified.
Education; certain fund transfers for fiscal years 2025, 2026, and 2027 authorized.
Parent contact information prohibited from being designated as publicly available directory information.
Public high schools required to participate in the direct admissions program.
Education savings accounts established, and rules required.
Cricket; MSHSL required to sanction cricket as a high school sport.
School administrators board reporting requirements modified.
High school students allowed to possess opiate antagonists.
Reenrollment after student withdrawal from school encouraged, and notification and resources required for the family of an unenrolled child.
Education; recess detention modified.
Fully funded summer school program created, voluntary integration and inclusion program established, voluntary metro-wide interdistrict integration program established, diverse magnet school program established, minimum pay for teachers required, and money appropriated.
Hours of instruction requirements modified.
Teacher licensure requirements related to the Read Act modified.
Microcredentials for teachers and administrators of English learner programs established, English learner revenue formula modified to provide additional revenue for a student with limited or interrupted formal education, English learner staff ratio reporting created, and money appropriated.
Athletic team designations based on biological sex at birth required.
Safe and supportive schools programming requirements modified.
School safety provisions modified, anonymous threat reporting system grants provided for schools, active shooter incidents and active shooter threats reporting required, Minnesota Fusion Center reporting modified, report required, and money appropriated.
Minnesota math corps program mission modified, and money appropriated.
Access to culturally inclusive learning environments protected.
Learning with music program grant provided, and money appropriated.
Cardiac emergency response plans required, and money appropriated.
Student attendance reporting required.
School districts required to adopt policies and processes to assist parents who require language assistance, and reasonable accommodations for parents of children with disabilities required.
Professional development requirements modified for Read Act implementation.
Requirements for students with mental illness modified, mental health instruction required, youth sports program training on mental illness and suicide prevention provided, and requirements of the statewide plan on restrictive procedures modified.
Healthy aging and dementia education encouraged.
Health standards required to include organ donation education.
Members of the legislative committees on education policy and education finance required to observe a teacher or administrator each year, house and senate required to adopt rules, and report required.
Resident charter school students allowed to participate in extracurricular activities.
Evidence-based education grant goals clarified.
School districts allowed to access personnel files of prospective teachers from their employing districts.
Short-call substitute teacher pilot program extended.
Resident nonpublic school pupils allowed to participate in extracurricular activities.
MTSS and COMPASS framework codified from session law to statutes.
Teacher preparation program grant eligibility modified.
Annual reporting on school resource officer contracts required.
Student discipline provisions modified.
Teaching standards of effective practice reinstated.
Student academic achievement and improvement provisions clarified.
Mandate relief for school districts provided, certain fund transfers for fiscal years 2025 through 2029 authorized, and school board authorized to opt out of compliance with certain recently enacted state laws or rules.
Read Act amended, and appropriations cancelled.
Full-service community schools provisions modified, and money appropriated.
American Indian education aid requirement removed.
Education attendance reporting requirements modified.
Physical and sexual abuse education required.
School-age care programs authorized to provide services to eligible prekindergarten students.
Parent's bill of rights created.
Parent's bill of rights created.
Due process time for special education forms and procedures required, due process aid established, and money appropriated.
Individualized education program requirements modified, and rulemaking required.
Diversity, equity, and inclusion provisions in prekindergarten through grade 12 education repealed.
Service animal support allowed in schools.
Parent allowed to opt their child out of a face covering requirement.
Early childhood literacy pilot programs established, and money appropriated.
Female sports team participation restricted to the female sex.
Students allowed to complete state assessments remotely, and money appropriated.
Required mathematics academic standards and credit requirements modified.
American Indian drumming in public schools allowed.
Personal learning plans required to include interventions.
Teacher licensure provisions modified, grant programs transferred from Professional Educator Licensing and Standards Board to the Department of Education, reports required, and money appropriated.
Construction of schools near former landfills prohibited.
Out-of-field permissions exempted from limit on renewals.
Student career and college readiness provisions clarified.
Minnesota Braille and Talking Book Library; responsibility for the library moved from the Department of Education to the Department of Employment and Economic Development.
High school graduation requirements clarified.
Parent rights established in education of their child, and constitutional amendment proposed.
Student attendance data reporting required in school performance reports.
Kindergarten through grade 3 student dismissal limitations modified.
Requirements for parental curriculum review and consent for sexual education curriculum modified.
School district noncompliance with unfunded mandates allowed.
Student bullying policy requirements modified.
Authority to adopt rules implementing statewide health standards repealed, and certain funds cancelled.
Office of Achievement and Innovation established in the Department of Education; and equity, diversity, and inclusion appropriation modified.
City, town, and school district general elections required to be conducted on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November of an even-numbered year; cities of the first class permitted to choose between even-numbered or odd-numbered year; and orderly transition plans required.
Parental notification of adverse incidents required.
School board membership requirements modified, and school board membership expanded to include student members.
School districts allowed to donate surplus schoolbooks.
Reporting of student fights provided.
Parent allowed to opt their child out of a face covering requirement.
Developmental delay age limit working group established, and report required.
Prohibition on American Indian mascots modified, and money appropriated.
Teacher shortage reporting requirements modified, and report required.
Student physical privacy provided.
Skills path program established for employment-based training.
Certain material prohibited in school libraries.
All resident home school students allowed to participate in extracurricular activities.
American Indian mascot prohibition repealed.
Teachers licensed in another state provisions modified to allow teaching in Minnesota.
Shared time pupils definition expanded.
Annual curriculum audit required.
American Indian mascot requirement exemption amended.
Postsecondary enrollment in summer courses allowed.
Read Act implementation professional development requirements modification
Student Religious Liberties Act established.
Notice of violent school incidents to teachers and each student's parents required, and retaliation for reporting prohibited.
Teaching of racist or sexist concepts prohibited, and private rights of action created.
Library services for blind and print disabled persons awareness requirements modified.
Education savings accounts established, and rules required.
Definition of gifted and talented students clarified.
Gender inclusion education policy required.
Book banning prohibited, public library bill of rights established, eligibility requirements modified for various library state aids, and private right of action created and attorney general enforcement provided.
American Indian mascots prohibition modified, and money appropriated.
Schools encourage to provide instruction on healthy aging and dementia.
Department of Education required to adopt model policy for cell phones in schools.
District allowed to place a student in an alternate setting.
State academic standards required in health education, rulemaking authorized, and money appropriated.
Limiting lead in school drinking water requirements modified, special revenue fund account established, and money appropriated.
Cell phones in schools model policy requested.
Education; prekindergarten through grade 12 education provisions modified including general education, education excellence, teachers, special education, charter schools, nutrition and libraries, health and safety, and state agencies; and reports required.
Fund transfers for fiscal years 2025, 2026, and 2027 authorized; and school board allowed to not comply with certain laws or rules.
School districts and charter schools required to provide climate justice instruction, and report required.
Teacher compensation requirements modified.
Education; physical holding or seclusion of noncompliant children allowed to be used.
American Indian views on environment and ecology integrated into statewide curriculum, and money appropriated.
School counselor ratios recommended, and school counselor duties established.
Student attendance reporting required.
Education; nasal opiate antagonists required in first aid kits.
Schools required to provide notice of school incidents to teachers and involved students' parents.
School instructional materials with sexually explicit images prohibited.
School board membership requirements modified, and school board membership expanded to include student members.
School districts encouraged to commemorate Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage month.
Stipends required to be paid to student teachers, and money appropriated.
Social studies standards adoption and modifying review cycle suspended, ethnic studies requirements repealed, and ethnic studies appropriations cancelled.
Social studies academic standards required to include contributions of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people and people with disabilities.
Purple Star School designation established.
Commissioner of education required to develop a model program for sexual health education, and report required.
Plant-based school lunch option required.
Teacher preparation programs required to provide instruction on ableism and disability justice, teacher license renewal requirements modified, and money appropriated.
Student journalists in grades 6 through 12 speech and press rights clarified.
Cardiac emergency response plans required, and money appropriated.
Minimum time for school lunch required.
Smudging ceremony allowed in public schools.
State school librarian established.
School Resource Officers; public safety provided, grounds for use of reasonable force in schools modified, school resource officer duties defined and minimum training requirements established, school resource officer model policy development required, and money appropriated.
Hours of instruction requirements modified, definition of credit amended, and money appropriated.
Microcredential for teachers and administrators of English learners established, student support personnel aid for area learning centers provided, fully funded alternative programs and English learner programs task force established, rulemaking authorized, report required, and money appropriated.
Cannabis and substance use education requirements modified.
School Health Advisory Committee created, and reports required.
Evidence-based literacy instruction pilot program established, out-of-school literacy program grants established, reports required, and money appropriated.
Special education; developmental adapted physical education assessment requirements modified, and report required.
Special education; districts required to adopt policies and processes to assist parents who require language assistance, and reasonable accommodations for parents of children with disabilities required.
Read Act amended, working group established, supplemental funding provided, reports required, and money appropriated.
Computer science education advancement program modified, grants established to expand computer science education programs, reports required, and money appropriated.
School activities prohibited from being scheduled at certain times.
Bird hatching banned in schools.
Process to resolve a dispute through a mediator or department complaint process modified.
Firearm safety instruction in school required.
Parental notice provided if student is left unattended on a school bus after route is completed.
District discipline complaint procedure modified, and commissioner of education required to review appeals of district complaint procedure.
Commissioner of education directed to amend rules relating to regional libraries.
Eligible institution requirements modified for postsecondary enrollment options.
Children withdrawn from school encouraged to reenroll in an education program, and families notified of resources.
Teacher licensure provisions modified, and reports required.
Nonresident pupil transportation requirements modified for students with a disability.
Provisions modified for sharing educational data designated as directory information.
Obsolete language pertaining to personal learning plans stricken.
Mental health instruction required starting in 2026-2027 school year.
Student discipline provisions modified.
Short-call substitute teacher pilot program modified.
Digital Citizenship, Internet Safety, and Media Literacy Advisory Council established, and report required.
Schools participating in state school milk program required to provide daily milk to students in kindergarten through grade 12, fees for school milk prohibited, reimbursement rate for school milk modified, and money appropriated.
Academic acceleration pilot program established, report required, and money appropriated.
Members of legislative committees on education policy and education finance required to observe a teacher or administrator each year, house and senate required to adopt rules, and reports required.
Special education teacher pipeline grant uses modified.
Commissioner of education directed to amend state's accountability plan.
Driver education program access expanded for low-income students, driver education work group established, report required, and money appropriated.
American Indian mascot prohibition repealed.
Student discipline and returning to class after a removal requirements modified.
American Indian mascot exemption requirements amended.
High school students required to complete FAFSA or state financial aid application, and commissioners of the Office of Higher Education and Department of Education required to establish FAFSA working group.
Working group on special education licensure reciprocity established, and report required.
Task force examining the returns from permanent school fund endowment created, report required, and money appropriated.
School board member grounds for removal clarified.
Parental notice provided when students are pulled out of the classroom.
Epinephrine auto-injector administration in schools requirements modified.
Dismissal limitations for kindergarten through grade 3 students amended.
Requirements for administration of drugs and medicine in schools modified.
Read Act amended, rulemaking authorized, and money appropriated.
School Resource Officers; grounds for reasonable force in schools modified, duties and minimum training requirements defined and established, and money appropriated.
Physical and sexual abuse education required.
LEAPS Act modified, school districts required to create English learner parent committees, and translation and communications opportunities expanded for the families of English learners.
County board required to notify child's resident district and serving district of placement for care and treatment, definitions of legal residence for a child with a disability or without a disability placed in foster facility modified.
Mental health screening for students required, student mental health supports revenue created, and money appropriated.
Children's mental health services enhanced, digital mental health services pilot program created, and money appropriated.
English learner programs and alternative education programs modified, reports required, and money appropriated.
District required to adopt a policy allowing space for mental health care.
Priority required for children placed in foster care to access school-age care programs, school-age care revenue eligibility and uses modified, and money appropriated.
Robotics programs grants authorized, report required, and money appropriated.
Postsecondary enrollment options provisions modified.
Minnesota High School League required to provide coaches with eating disorder prevention education resources.
Academic acceleration pilot program established, report required, and money appropriated.
Personal finance course requirements clarified, state academic standards in personal finance required, personal finance seal for teacher licensure established, rulemaking authorized, and money appropriated.
Sexually transmitted infections and diseases program requirements modified.
Charter school facilities provisions modified.
Charter school provisions modified.
Education; open-door requirement established.
First aid plan in schools required, rulemaking required, and money appropriated.
Perpich Center for Arts Education duties modified.
Teacher relicensure requirements modified, professional development on dyslexia required, literacy clinic grants provided, report required, and money appropriated.
Schools required to adopt major food allergen policy.
Student bullying policy requirements modified.
Legislative study group on student attendance and truancy created, and report required.
Education innovation provided, innovation zone provisions modified, P-TECH approval process modified, and new chapter of statutes codified.
School districts required to grant students credit for satisfying academic standards before enrolling in high school.
Short-call substitute teacher requirements modified.
Parental notification of adverse incidents required.
Funding provided for kindergarten through grade 12 education; general education, literacy and learning, special education, education innovation, and education excellence provisions modified; forecast adjustments made; reports required; and money appropriated.
Student welfare and parental awareness in education provided.
Comprehensive services provided to schools identified as in need of comprehensive support under Every Student Succeeds Act, and money appropriated.
Testing of school building doors and locks required, and money appropriated.
Education; notification for nonrenewal of coaching contracts required.
Admission fees prohibited at public school events.
Fund established to promote healthy environments for learning and teaching, and money appropriated.
Education; Erin's Law personal safety instruction required.
School health services provided, and money appropriated.
Public employee labor relations modified, and collective bargaining modified.
Rights of a parent in the education of their child established, and constitutional amendment proposed.
High school students allowed to earn elective credits through employment with health care providers.
Dismissal of students in kindergarten through grade 3 prohibited, and money appropriated.
Career and technical education consortium grant funding provided, and money appropriated.
Prekindergarten through grade 12 provisions modified including general education accountability and transparency, education excellence, American Indian education, charter schools, discipline, teachers, special education, and early learning; and reports required.
Reading instruction required to be based on science of reading, reading reset account established in special revenue fund, and money appropriated.
Education on the Holocaust, genocide of Indigenous Peoples, and other genocides required for middle and high school students; working group created; report required; and money appropriated.
Education on the Holocaust, genocide of Indigenous Peoples, and other genocides required for middle and high school students; working group created; report required; and money appropriated.
American Indian education provided for all students, report required, and money appropriated.
Indexing of English learner programs revenue to basic education revenue required, microcredentials of teachers and administrators of English learners established, rulemaking authorized, and money appropriated.
Special education teacher pipeline program established, report required, and money appropriated.
Personal finance class required for high school graduation, personal finance seal established for teacher licensure, and rulemaking authorized.
American Indian regalia or objects of cultural significance allowed at graduation ceremonies.
Review of physical education standards delayed.
Free school lunch and breakfast provided for students, and money appropriated.
Civics course required as graduation requirement.
Active shooter drill standards provided.
Read Act established, schools required to use approved literacy curriculum, literacy specialists required, report required, and money appropriated.
Service-learning integrated into Minnesota's education system, evidence-based service-learning technical assistance and grant program established, reports required, and money appropriated.
Legislative study group on school safety established, and report required.
Student and staff safety measures required to be included in each school district's long-term facilities maintenance school facility plan, safe schools funding increased, school security systems grants created, and money appropriated.
Gender-neutral, single-user restroom and locker room facilities provided; and money appropriated.
Student identification cards required to include mental health crisis telephone number.
School trust lands director duties and powers modified.
Education; nonexclusionary discipline provided.
Commissioner of health prohibited from modifying immunization requirements for enrollment in elementary or secondary school or child care facility to require immunizations against COVID-19.
Education; tiered licensure changes made.
Teacher licensure and teacher preparation program changes made, Professional Educator Licensing Standards Board membership changes made, and money appropriated.
Parent allowed to opt their child out of face covering requirement.
Number of heritage language and culture teachers increased, and money appropriated.
Teachers of Color Act strengthened, percentage of teachers of color and American Indian teachers in Minnesota increased, world's best workforce requirements amended, reports required, and money appropriated.
School districts required to provide access to menstrual products for students, operating capital aid increased to fund school district purchases of menstrual products, and money appropriated.
Reporting of pupil withdrawal agreements defined and required.
Advanced placement and international baccalaureate program provisions modified to include Cambridge Assessment International Education.
School library aid created, school library aid funding provided, and money appropriated.
Student admission provisions modified.
Educational outcome and accountability improvement pilot program established, reports required, and money appropriated.
Reasonable accommodations required for parents of children with disabilities.
Distance learning days provided.
School district required to grant secondary credit for postsecondary courses outside school year, and money appropriated.
Minnesota schools authorized to serve two percent and whole milk to kindergarten students as part of state-sponsored school milk program, commissioners of education and agriculture required to report to legislature on additional milk options for participants in national school meals programs, funding increased for kindergarten milk program, and money appropriated.
Due process special education aid created for school districts, and money appropriated.
Ethnic studies requirement created, Ethnic Studies Working Group created, rulemaking authorized, report required, and money appropriated.
Compensatory revenue modified, revenue uses changed, best practices encouraged, percentage of compensatory revenue that must stay at each school site increased, report on eliminating paper forms required, and money appropriated.
Obsolete language pertaining to administration of Professional Educator Licensing and Standards Board stricken.
Employee health insurance provided, minimum starting salary for nonlicensed school personnel increased, paid orientation and professional development for paraprofessionals provided, and money appropriated.
Computer science education advancement provided, rulemaking authorized, and money appropriated.
Teacher preparation time provisions modified.
Education superintendents; various nonsubstantive style and form changes made.
Access to driver education programs for low-income students expanded, driver education work group established, report required, and money appropriated.
Lead testing and remediation requirements in schools modified, report required, and money appropriated.
Tribally enrolled or descendent student educational data sharing allowed with Tribal nations.
Education; Pledge of Allegiance required to be recited daily.
Tutoring grant program established, and money appropriated.
Sudden cardiac arrest screening required for youth athletes.
Display or communication of child abuse hotline number in schools provided.
Female sports team participation restricted to female sex.
Indigenous Peoples Day school observance required, and Indigenous Peoples Day established as state holiday and Christopher Columbus Day eliminated as state holiday.
Teaching of racist or sexist concepts prohibited, and private rights of action created.
Online personal finance class required for high school graduation.
Education savings accounts created as learning options for students.
CPR and AED instruction provisions modified to include Health and Safety Institute.
Grants authorized to improve students' digital technology skills and support digital learning, and money appropriated.
Short-call substitute teacher licensing provisions provided for rural Minnesota.
Barriers to teacher licensure removed, licensure requirements modified, and short-call substitute teacher pilot program established.
Extended time revenue modified, graduation incentives program expanded to include all English learners with interrupted formal education, and postsecondary enrollment in summer courses allowed.
Teacher residency grant pilot program established.
Building Assets, Reducing Risks Center funding provided, and money appropriated.
Department of Education licensed school nurse position created, and money appropriated.
Grants to recruit school nurses established, eligibility for loan forgiveness expanded to include school nurses, report required, and money appropriated.
Comprehensive school mental health services lead positions established, and money appropriated.
Suicide prevention information included on student identification cards provided.
Paraprofessional paid orientation required.
School boards authorized to implement four-day school week programs without approval by commissioner of education, and rulemaking required.
Alternative teacher preparation program grant eligibility modified, and money appropriated.
Professional Educator Licensing and Standards Board membership modified, and money appropriated.
World's best workforce performance measures modified.
Hours of instruction requirements and e-learning requirements modified, and districts allowed to offer full-time online instruction.
School-related active transportation policy provisions governed.
Postsecondary institution required to notify school of student withdrawal, and student required to provide school with copy of grades taken for secondary credit.
Postsecondary enrollment in summer courses allowed.
Education savings accounts established, and rules required.
Malicious and sadistic conduct involving race, gender, religion, sexual harassment, sexual orientation, and sexual exploitation prohibited.
Evidence-based literacy instruction required, report required, and money appropriated.
Education; participation in athletic teams provided.
Parent allowed to opt their child out of face covering requirement.
Affirmative consent instruction required, and money appropriated.
Exception to tobacco in public schools created.
Social studies requirements modified, and school districts required to offer a course in government and citizenship.
Nonpublic pupil transportation service agreements authorized.
Interpreter requirements modified.
Education savings accounts created as a learning option for students, and money appropriated.
Minnesota State High School League; governing board membership modified.
Deaf and hard-of-hearing students and oral/aural deaf education licensure requirements modified, rulemaking authorized, and report required.
Teacher shortage reporting requirements modified.
Education; literacy data reporting required.
School districts allowed to access personnel files of prospective teachers from their employing districts.
Annual curriculum audit required.
Parental curriculum review and consent for sexual education curriculum requirements modified.
Student physical privacy provided.
Charter school admission lotteries modified.
Class syllabi required for kindergarten through grade 12 classes.
School health services modified to allow for use of private clinical nursing services, use of functional behavioral assessment modified, and students allowed to participate in alternative delivery of specialized instructional services programs.
Malicious and sadistic conduct involving race, gender, religion, sexual harassment, sexual orientation, and sexual exploitation prohibited.
Resident nonpublic school pupils allowed to participate in extracurricular activities.
Pornographic and sexually explicit material prohibited in school libraries.
Provisions modified for teachers licensed in another state to teach in Minnesota.
All resident home school students allowed to participate in extracurricular activities.
Fundamental right to quality public education for all children provided, and constitutional amendment proposed.
Resident charter school students allowed to participate in extracurricular activities.
Charter school admission requirements modified.
Shared time pupils definition expanded.
Student Religious Liberties Act established.
Public silent prayer allowed at student athletic activities.
Teacher shortage reporting requirement modifications
School board members employed by a school district maximum earnings increased.
School nutrition program unit transferred from Department of Education to Department of Agriculture.
Education; nonexclusionary discipline provided.
Student welfare and parental awareness in education provided.
Postsecondary enrollment options provisions modified.
Climate justice instruction required by school districts and charter schools.
School lead testing and remediation requirements modified, report required, and money appropriated.
Teacher due process forms and procedures time required.
Air Ventilation Program Act established relating to public school buildings, and money appropriated.
Teacher preparation time modified.
Social studies requirements modified, and school districts required to offer a course in government and citizenship.
Ethnic studies requirement created, Ethnic Studies Task Force created, rulemaking authorized, report required, and money appropriated.
FAFSA required for high school graduation.
School counselor provisions modified and mental illness training required, and money appropriated.
School lunch and breakfast for all students provided, and money appropriated.
Public labor relations modified.
School districts required to provide access to military, skilled trades, and manufacturing career options.
Youth skill path program for employment-based training established.
Parental curriculum review provisions modified.
Prekindergarten through grade 12 provisions modified, including general education, education excellence, teachers, charter schools, health and safety, nutrition and libraries; and reports required.
Indigenous Peoples' Day school observance required, Indigenous Peoples' Day state holiday established and Christopher Columbus Day state holiday eliminated.
School library and media center provided equitable and free access to students.
K-12 scholarship donation tax credit provided.
School-sponsored sports teams required to be designated by biological sex.
Menstrual product access required from school districts, operating capital revenue increased to fund school district purchases of menstrual products, and money appropriated.
Increase Teachers of Color Act strengthened, teachers of color and American Indian teachers percentage increased, world's best workforce requirements amended, report required, and money appropriated.
COVID-19; actions to combat the educational effects of the pandemic implemented, and money appropriated.
After-school community learning programs modified, report required, and money appropriated.
Teacher licensure provisions modified.
Cambridge Assessment International Education included in advanced placement and international baccalaureate program.
School trust land director duties and powers modified.
School board and nonpublic school allowed to enter into nonpublic school student transportation agreement.
Exclusion from recess prohibited as student discipline.
Student bullying policy provisions modified.
Reasonable accommodation for parents of children with disabilities in education program required.
Dismissal of students in kindergarten through grade 3 prohibited, and money appropriated.
Fundamental right to quality public education for all children provided, and constitutional amendment proposed.
Minnesota State High School League required to sanction boys volleyball.
English learner program revenue indexing required to basic education revenue, rulemaking authorized, and money appropriated.
Parent allowed to opt child out of face covering requirement.
High school graduation requirements modified.
School nurse recruitment grants established, loan forgiveness eligibility expanded to include school nurses, report required, and money appropriated.
Student mental health screening required, student mental health support revenue created, and money appropriated.
Education; malicious and sadistic conduct involving race, gender, religion, sexual harassment, sexual orientation, and sexual exploitation prohibited.
Immunization requirement exemption modified for children in child care facilities and students in school and postsecondary education institution.
Transportation sparsity revenue percent updated.
School construction near former landfill prohibited, and schools located near former landfill notice required.
Alternative teacher preparation program grant eligibility modified, and money appropriated.
Children served by school-age care programs age range increased, funding increased for wrap-around care programs, wrap-around care revenue provided, and money appropriated.
Education savings account created as student learning option, and money appropriated.
Short-call substitute teacher licensing provision provided for rural Minnesota.
Class syllabi for kindergarten through grade 12 classes requirement
School districts or public schools not required instruction relating to critical race theory in required curriculum.
Public school enrollment age provisions relating to admissions modified.
School year hours of instruction requirements modified.
Schools required to maintain opiate antagonist supply.
Schools required to make disposable menstrual products in restrooms freely available.
Increase Teachers of Color Act strengthened, teachers of color and American Indian teachers in Minnesota percentage increase sought, reports required, and money appropriated.
Student fight reporting requirements provided.
Personal finance added to graduation requirements.
Student authorized to use general education fund at nonpublic school in event of teachers filing strike notice.
Scholarship program created as learning option for students with disability.
Teacher shortage reporting requirements modified.
Parental curriculum review provisions modifications
School district board meetings and charter school board meetings changes
Substance misuse awareness and prevention education provided.
Charter school admission requirements modified.
Comprehensive school mental health service lead position established, and money appropriated.
Comprehensive school mental health service lead position established, and money appropriated.
Teacher preparation programs required to include online coursework.
Computer science education foundational blueprint established to support statewide computer science education, task force required, and money appropriated.
Statutory immunization requirement exemption provided for sincerely held religious belief.
School athletic team and facility equal access provided.
Student Data Privacy Act created, and penalties provided.
After-school community learning programs modified, report required, and money appropriated.
School board member removal election procedures established.
Substitute teacher provisions modified, school building required to employ a substitute teacher, and money appropriated.
School districts allowed to access prospective teacher personnel file from employing districts.
Student Religious Liberties Act established.
Public school employee prohibited from using public funds and recourses for advocating the passage, election, or defeat of political candidate, ballot question, or pending legislation.
Regional centers of excellence reorganized.
Teacher unrequested leave of absence provisions modified.
Kindergarten through grade 12 class syllabi required.
Male student participation in female athletics restricted, male access to female changing facilities restricted, and criminal penalties provided.
Female student sport team participation restricted to the female sex.
Commissioner of education required to enter a contract if information technology project exceeds cost threshold.
Curriculum transparency provided, and parental rights protected.
Rights of a parent in education of their child established, and constitutional amendment proposed.
School district's operating referendum authority and local optional revenue authority revocation authorized by an election, and recall of school board members authorized.
Reading proficiency goal provided, world's best workforce temporarily suspended, and report required.
Teacher licensure provisions modified, Professional Educator Licensing and Standards Board combination modified, rulemaking authorized, and technical changes made.
Academic standards and benchmarks modified, and rulemaking requirements modified.
Educator support, crisis online learning, and short-call substitute teacher pilot provided.
Short-call substitute teacher requirements modified.
Child abuse hotline number display and communication in schools provided.
Department of Education licensed school nurse position created, and money appropriated.
Critical thinking skills advancement instructions required.
Student participation in athletic teams restricted.
Critical race theory curriculum education requirement prohibited.
School district and charter school board meeting changes made.
Patriotic and national organizations permitted informational access to schools.
Minnesota tutoring corps established, and money appropriated.
Social studies standards review cycle suspended and restarted.
Prekindergarten through grade 12 education funding provided including general education, education excellence, health and well-being, nutrition, libraries, early childhood, and post secondary enrollment options and graduation; technical corrections made; reports required; and money appropriated.
Civics and social studies graduation requirements modified.
Education commissioner required to develop a model program for sexual health education, and report required.
School liability provisions modified, and civil cause of action created.
Social studies standard adoption requirements established.
Immunization exemption removed.
Social studies graduation requirement modified.
Seizure training and seizure action plan required in schools.
Student absence from school modified for religious holidays.
Digital and online library database resources for student provisions established, and report required.
Paraprofessional paid orientation required, paraprofessional training funding provided, and money appropriated.
Ethnic studies requirement created, Ethnic Studies Task Force created, rulemaking authorized, report required, and money appropriated.
Teacher licensure provisions modified.
Youth development organizations informational access to students permitted.
Education; hours of instruction definition modified, distance instruction provided, instruction model working group established, and report required.
Student admission provisions modified.
Special education recovery services and support plans required for students with disabilities, federal fund appropriation replacement provided, and money appropriated.
Commissioner of education academic standards review cycle suspension
State assessments plan requirement
School district short-call substitute teachers pilot program
Prekindergarten through grade 12 provisions modified including general education, education excellence, teachers, charter schools, special education, health, safety, nutrition, libraries, facilities, and state agencies; and report required.
Statewide concurrent enrollment teacher training program amended, and money appropriated
Educator expense credit established.
School health services modified to allow for the use of private clinical nursing services, use of functional behavioral assessment modified, and students allowed to participate in alternative delivery of specialized instructional services programs.
Teacher licensing, hiring, and dismissal provisions modified.
School meal lunch aid provisions modified.
Minnesota State High School League governing board membership modified.
E-learning days; unlimited distance learning days provided.
School employees, volunteers, and contractor background check requirements expanded; and drug and alcohol testing required.
Standardized testing for 2020-2021 school year suspended.
Online personal finance class required for high school graduation.
Teacher licensure provisions modified, Professional Educator Licensing and Standards Board composition modified, rulemaking authorized, and technical changes made.
Postsecondary enrollment in summer courses allowed.
Student ID cards required to include mental health crisis telephone number.
World's best workforce performance measure modified.
Interpreter requirements modified.
School districts required to establish teacher mentoring programs, and staff development revenue allowed uses modified.
Gifted and talented student programs modified, and academic acceleration policies encouraged.
Student discipline and nonexclusionary disciplinary policies and practices modified.
Licensure requirements modified for deaf and hard-of-hearing students and for oral/aural deaf education, rulemaking authorized, and report required.
Teacher and classroom safety provided, and notice required to a paraprofessional of a student's history of violence.
Charter school authorizer corrective action requirements modified.
Special education capacity provisions modified.
Locally adopted social studies academic standards provided.
Teacher shortage area requirements modified, and unrequested leave of absence plan requirements modified.
Tobacco exception in public schools created for American Indian students.
School start times provided.
Academic standards review cycle suspended, and report required.
Parental curriculum review and sexual education curriculum consent requirements modified.
Patriotic society youth group public school building access permitted.
Innovation zone provisions modified.
Classroom placement and school attendance provisions modified, the world's best workforce modified, student discipline policy requirements modified, teacher code of ethics codified in statute and code of ethics repealed in rule, and school employee contracts restricted.
Education statute style and form changes made, and obsolete statutes repealed.
School board required to publish consulting fees.
Personal learning plan requirements modified.
Alternative teacher professional pay and teacher evaluation requirements for 2020-2021 school year modified.
Educator expense credit established.
Postsecondary institution required to notify school of student withdrawal, and student required to provide school with a copy of grades.
Shared time pupil definition expanded.
Individual-use screen use limited in preschool and kindergarten, and money appropriated.
Background checks required, mandatory reporting expanded, and teacher code of ethics in statue codified and code of ethics in rule repealed.
Charter school authorizer review requirements amended.
Minnesota Imagination Library Project established, and money appropriated.
Service learning integrated into Minnesota's education system, evidence-based service-learning technical assistance and grant program established, and money appropriated.
Community education advisory council responsibility modified, general community education revenue calculation and allowable uses modified, and money appropriated.
Charter school authorizer review requirements amended.
Postsecondary enrollment option eligibility expanded.
Reading instruction requirements modified.
Schools required to reopen for continuous on-site instruction.
Standardized assessment task force created, and report required.
Reading proficiency and literacy incentive aid requirements modified, and report required.
Short-call substitute teacher pilot program created.
ACT scale score substitution for Minnesota Comprehensive Assessment scale scores allowed.
Public school students allowed to attend nonpublic school courses.
Civic test reporting requirements created.
School district reporting reduced.
Area learning center establishing requirements modified.
Special education legislative working group established, and report required.
Minnesota Reads task force established to review adult and children literacy programs, report required, and money appropriated.
Community education teacher continuing contract and tenure status provisions modified.
School districts required to establish teacher mentoring program, and staff development revenue allowed uses modified.
School districts allowed to begin school year before Labor Day.
Charter school authorizer allowed to open the Sisu Environmental School for the 2021-2022 school year.
Child safety curriculum required.
Education; state assessment plan required.
Environmental hazard notifications in school buildings required.
Postsecondary enrollment provisions modified.
Schools required to maintain non-patient-specific epinephrine auto-injector supply.
Charter school admission lotteries modified.
School boards authorized to establish and operate a safe learning plan for the 2020-2021 school year, parent-based distance learning program established for the 2020-2021 school year, school calendar modified for the 2020-2021 school year, Minnesota State High School League prohibited from limiting tournaments or activities after canceling or limiting a tournament or season, school district fund transfer flexibility extended, distance learning defined, and report required.
Short-call substitute teachers employment provided.
Teacher licensing, hiring, and dismissal modified.
COVID-19; school boards authorized to establish a safe learning plan for 2020-2021 school year, parent-based distance learning program established, school calendar modified, school district fund transfer flexibility extended, distance learning defined, and report required.
Individualized education programs for 2020-2021 required.
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.
Public schools required to provide transportation for nonpublic students on each day the student has an on-site instructional day during the 2020-2021 school year.
Teacher licensing, hiring, and dismissal modified.
Short-call substitute teacher employment provisions modified.
Individualized education program required for 2020-2021 school year.
Teacher licensing, hiring, and dismissal modified.
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.
Public schools required to provide transportation for nonpublic students on each day the student has an on-site instructional day during the 2020-2021 school year.
General education, education excellence, teachers, Department of Education housekeeping, nutrition, and early childhood education provisions modified.
Annual curriculum audit required.
Tribal Nations Education Committee inclusion required in state social standards review.
Minnesota School Safety Center directed to develop school threat assessment policy, safe schools levy allowable uses modified, school resource officer requirements established, report required, and money appropriated.
Education; classroom placement and school attendance provisions modified, academic achievement rating system established, teacher code of ethics in statute codified and repealed in rule, school meal policies modified, teacher licensure provisions modified, and school employee contracts restricted.
Short-call substitute teacher pilot program established, and report required.
School board 2020-2021 school year attendance model authorized, parent-based distance learning program established, calendar modified, school district fund transfer flexibility extended, distance learning defined, report required, and money appropriated.
General education, education excellence, teachers, Department of Education housekeeping, nutrition, and early childhood education provided.
Increase Teachers of Color Act strengthened, percentage increase of teachers of color and American Indian heritage sought, reports required, and money appropriated.
Innovation zone provisions modified.
School board implementation of flexible learning year programs without commissioner of education approval authorized.
Reading proficiency and literacy incentive aid requirements modified, and report required.
Curriculum review and best practices sharing established, and money appropriated.
Quality public education fundamental right provided for all children, and constitutional amendment proposed.
Academic standards review cycle suspended, and report required.
Teacher code of ethics codified in statute and code of ethics in rule repealed, and school district ethic complaints procedures required.
Pre-K through grade 12 education policy changes made including general education, education excellence, teacher licensing, health and safety, special education, and early childhood education; and report changes made.
School meal policy provisions modified.
General education, education excellence, teachers, Department of Education housekeeping, nutrition, and early childhood education provided.
Fundamental right to quality public education provided for all children, and constitutional amendment proposed.
School district authorized to begin distance learning for high school students prior to Labor Day.
Reading proficiency and literacy incentive aid requirements modified, and report required.
Public school student participation in parent-based distance learning program authorized.
Education innovation zone provisions modified.
COVID-19; school closures and other amendments provided; calculation of school aid formulas clarified; forecast adjustments made to funding for general education, education excellence, teachers, special education, facilities, fund transfers and accounting, nutrition and libraries, early childhood, and community education and lifelong learning; responsibilities clarified for construction and skills trades career counseling services; operation referendum calculation clarified; and base appropriations adjusted.
Education; prekindergarten through grade 12 education policy changes made including general education, education excellence, teacher licensing, health and safety, special education, and early childhood education; and changes made to a report.
COVID-19; school employee compensation during distance learning periods during 2019-2020 school year provided.
Foster care student enrollment in school required, and foster youth school enrollment report required.
Education finance; evidence-based grant standard established for any legislative grants awarded to organizations for prekindergarten through grade 12 education programs, and report required.
Reading proficiency and literacy incentive aid requirements modified, and report required.
Ethnic studies requirement and advisory board created, and rulemaking required.
Teacher license renewal requirements amended to include mental illness training.
Innovation research zone program established, and money appropriated.
Concurrent enrollment teacher training funding increased, concurrent enrollment aid modified, and money appropriated.
Student absence from school for religious observances modified.
School trust lands director provisions modified.
Independent School District No. 709, Duluth; levy authority transfer from the long-term facilities maintenance revenue program to the debt redemption fund authorized, report required, and bonds issued.
Competency-based education provided.
Reading proficiency and screening by third grade reporting requirements clarified.
Rights of a parent in education of their child established, and constitutional amendment proposed.
Prekindergarten through grade 12 policy and technical changes made to provisions including general education, schools, teachers, definitions, and timelines; and reports required.
Student absence from school for religious observance provisions modified.
School districts authorized to renew expiring referendums by action of school board.
Innovation research zone program established.
School district renewal of expiring referendums for one year authorized.
School district reporting reduced.
Service-learning integrated into education system, evidence-based service-learning technical assistance and grant program established, and money appropriated.
Gifted and talented program provisions modified, funding increased, and money appropriated.
Obscenity law exemptions removed relating to public schools, and civil cause of action established.
School district reorganization allowed and new district reorganization plans established.
Preschool and kindergarten individual-use screen use limited, and money appropriated.
Comprehensive mental health services director position established, and money appropriated.
Metro Deaf School funding provided, and money appropriated.
Area learning center establishment requirements modified.
Vaccine minimum safety standards provided for any vaccine required to enroll or remain enrolled in elementary and secondary school.
Safe school revenue increased, report required, and money appropriated.
Statutory immunization requirement exemption provided for sincerely held religious belief.
American Indian Education Act provisions modified; educational data disclosure to tribal nations allowed; consideration of advice from tribal nations, communities, and the Tribal Nations Education Committee required in statewide core academic standards; school districts and charter schools required to allow American Indian students to wear regalia and objects of cultural significance at graduation; and school board member training provision modified.
Independent School District No. 279, Osseo; single-member school board election district establishment provided.
Quality public education for all children provided as a fundamental right, and constitutional amendment proposed.
Education; seclusion defined and prohibited.
Pupil withdrawal agreement reporting defined and required.
Standardized assessment task force created, and report required.
County board required to notify child's resident district and serving district of care and treatment placement, legal residence definition modified for child with disability in foster facility, and legal residence definition modified for child without disability in foster facility.
Pupil withdrawal agreement use defined and clarified.
Statewide assessments and district grading policies modified.
Postsecondary enrollment provisions modified.
American Indian mascot and logo use prohibited.
Vocational services provided for individuals with disabilities, and reports required.
School health services modified to allow for use of private nurse.
Increase Teachers of Color Act strengthened, increase in percentage of teachers of color and American Indian teachers sought, reports required, and money appropriated.
Unclaimed drugs or medications in schools disposal provided.
High school diplomas awarded to veterans who actively served in military conflicts.
Radon testing required in public schools.
State auditor funding for school finance accountability team provided, work billing exempted until July 1, 2024; and money appropriated.
Schools required to maintain a supply of opiate antagonists.
Adult diploma program created, and money appropriated.
High school raffle receipt permitted uses for school activities expanded.
Charter school authorizer corrective action provisions modified.
Compensatory education revenue required uses modified.
Literacy incentive aid required to be used for certain purposes.
Civics test reporting requirements created.
Reading proficiency, retention, promotion, and literacy incentive aid requirements modified; and report required.
Paraprofessional paid orientation required, training funding provided, and money appropriated.
Teacher licensure provisions modified.
Teacher licensure provisions modified, Professional Educator Licensing and Standards Board composition modified, rulemaking authorized, and technical changes made.
Teachers, background checks, early childhood programs, and services for people with disabilities requirements modified; and provisions pertaining to state assessments reorganized.
Student discipline and nonexclusionary disciplinary policies and practices modified.
School referendum election maximum notice period extended from 30 to 45 days.
Innovation research zone partner allowed to use a nationally recognized high school academic assessment.
School district transportation contracts clarified.
Postsecondary education institution required to notify school of student withdrawal, and student required to provide copy of grades to school.
Seizure training required in schools.
Gifted and talented provisions modified, and transitional outcomes improved.
Continuing contract and tenure status of community education teachers provisions modified.
Test result report requirements modified.
Quality public education for all children provided as a fundamental right, and constitutional amendment proposed.
General community education revenue use modified.
Postsecondary enrollment in summer courses allowed.
After-school community learning programs modified and program grants provided, and money appropriated.
School meal policy and aid provisions modified, and money appropriated.
Youth development organization informational access to students permitted.
Sudden cardiac arrest prevention standards, safety and awareness education, and required training for coaches and officials of youth activities established.
Student death school board policy required.
Radon testing required by school districts.
Sexual assault; affirmative consent instruction in schools required, and money appropriated.
School meal provisions modified.
Long-term facilities maintenance revenue use modified relating to education.
Gifted and talented programs and statewide assessment provisions modified.
Charter school policy and technical provisions modified.
Female sports team participation restricted to the female sex.
School construction near former landfills prohibited, and notice required by schools located near former landfills.
Students allowed to participate in alternative delivery of specialized instructional services program.
Student journalists in grades 6 through 12 speech and press rights clarified.
Sexual health curriculum model program development required, and report required.
Paraprofessional provisions modified, and money appropriated.
Homelessness prevention and life skills education required.
Professional Educators Licensing and Standards Board directed to adopt dual enrollment instruction endorsement standards.
Teacher license renewal requirements amended to include mental illness training.
Pupil nonexclusionary disciplinary policies and practices provided, and report required.
Student Data Privacy Act created, and penalties provided.
Student athlete sudden cardiac arrest prevention standards established.
Financial aid information required to be provided to high school students.
Medical cannabis possession and use on school grounds permitted; personnel provided protection from civil penalties, criminal penalties, and disciplinary action; health commissioner directed to develop medical cannabis possession and use standardized form.
Sign language and English interpreter requirements modified.
Schools required to make disposable menstrual products freely available in school restrooms.
Student Data Privacy Act created, and penalties provided.
Minnesota high school league eligibility review process provided; public input and access to proposed eligibility bylaws, policies, and procedures provided; and report required.
Academia standards review cycle suspended, and report required.
High school graduation requirements modified to meet career and college readiness benchmarks.
Special education legislative working group established, and report required.
Vaping prevention pilot grant created, and money appropriated.
Vaping awareness and prevention instruction for public school students required.
School district required to have a recycling policy.
Environmental hazard in school buildings notification required.
Sexual education curriculum; parental review and consent requirements modified.
Education; restrictive procedure standards repealed.
School safety ombudsman established.
Safe and supportive school environment, student admission, or readmission plan provision modification required.
Education; preliminary license during pending background check allowed.
Annual curriculum audit required.
School counseling provisions modified to encourage armed forces career options.
Student absence from school for religious holidays modified, and employee leave for religious holidays required.
Notice of contracts required by school districts.
School employee, volunteer, and contractor background check requirements expanded; and drug and alcohol testing required.
Education licensure requirements modified for deaf and hard-of-hearing students and for oral/aural deaf education, and report required.
Patriotic societies allowed the opportunity to encourage student participation.
Short-call substitute teacher pilot program established, and report required.
Elementary and middle school quarterly reports to school board required.
Minnesota State Academies board requirements modified.
Graduation requirement assessments required.
Teacher preparation program reporting requirements modified.
Youth athlete sudden cardiac arrest screening required.
Child abuse awareness posters development required.
Special education aid calculation for charter schools modified.
Charter and nonpublic school student participation in resident district extracurricular activities allowed.
School performance report requirements modified, advisory task force established, and money appropriated.
Medicine administration in school recommendations made, and report required.
School districts, intermediate school districts, cooperatives, and charter schools required to contribute amounts to employee health benefits.
Robotic programs in school grant program established, report required, and money appropriated.
Special education paperwork requirements reduced, and report required.
Ethnic comparative studies included in social studies education requirements.
Dyslexia screening required in school.
Seat belts required on newly purchased school buses.
School suicide prevention policies developed.
Firearms safety, archery, hunting, and angling inclusion in school physical education courses grant established; report required; and money appropriated.
Teachers of concurrent enrollment students provided a temporary refundable credit.
Minnesota State Academies board requirements modified.
Dyslexia instruction required for all teaching license tiers preparation programs, and report required.
Teacher training required to implement instructional strategies to meet dyslexic needs in all teaching license tiers.
Student access to library media specialists grant program established, and money appropriated.
Independent School District No. 846, Breckenridge; postsecondary enrollment options agreement allowed.
Public schools required to maintain monthly utility consumption data.
Early learning scholarship eligibility modified, and voluntary prekindergarten programs expanded to five groups.
Increase Teachers of Color Act funding provided, seeking to double American Indian teacher and teachers of color, reports required, and money appropriated.
School calendar adjustment authorized for instructional days and work hours lost due to school closings during the 2018-2019 school year.
School employees, independent contractors, and persons in positions of authority who have sexual relationships with students penalties established.
Pregnant and parenting pupils transportation to qualified programs provided, reimbursement allowed, and money appropriated.
Vocational enrichment program established, and money appropriated.
School boards authorized to own and operate renewable energy systems.
High school-college experience with linked workforce development experience created, P-TECH schools established, and money appropriated.
School administrator licensure fee modified, special revenue fund administrator licensure account created, and money appropriated.
Prekindergarten through grade 12 technical and policy changes made including general education, education excellence, teachers, special education, health and safety, facilities, nutrition, and state agencies; and reports required.
School counselors allowed to consult with Department of Labor and Industry, and school districts allowed to grant persons promoting skilled trade careers to secondary students.
Postsecondary education enrollment options eligibility clarified.
Pupil transportation for certain homeless students authority assigned, and money appropriated.
Professional development to improve reading instruction provided, and hiring bonuses allowed.
School board implementation of flexible learning year programs without commissioner of education approval authorized.
Community education advisory council responsibilities modified, and general community education revenue calculation and allowable uses modified.
School districts and charter schools required to record voluntary prekindergarten pupil expenditures.
Student discipline report provided, and report required.
Technical education instructor license exemption modified.
Teacher licensure requirements modified, Professional Educator Licensing and Standards Board composition modified, background check requirements modified, rulemaking authorized, and technical changes made.
Education; prior written notice working group established.
Pupil Fair Dismissal Act amended, nonexclusionary disciplinary policies and practices required, and money appropriated.
Service-learning grant program established, report required, and money appropriated.
Teacher licensure requirements modified, Professional Educator Licensing and Standards Board composition modified, background check requirements modified, rulemaking authorized, and technical changes made.
Education; prior written notice working group established.
K-12 education expense credit modified.
Individualized education program requirements modified to permit reporting of student performance on assessments, and rulemaking authorized.
Individualized education program requirements modified to permit reporting of student performance on assessments, and rulemaking authorized.
Child age range increased for school-age care programs, funding for school-age care programs increased, and money appropriated.
High school graduation personal finance credits required.
Pupils enrolled in career and technical education courses extended time use expanded.
School safety assessment teams required, and money appropriated.
Pupils enrolled in career and technical education courses extended time use expanded.
Education expense credit and deduction provided to apply to expenditures for prekindergarten expenses.
Unrequested leave of absence provision effective date of statutory changes amended.
Maximum number of e-learning days extended.
Teaching license revocation, suspension, or denial grounds modified; and teacher code of ethics codified.
Online core curricular courses allowed to be delivered at sites other than public school buildings.
School calendar of 2018-2019 adjustment; up to three days exempted.
Substance misuse prevention instruction grant funding provided, report required, and money appropriated.
Paraprofessional paid orientation required, training funding provided, and money appropriated.
Early learning scholarships eligibility modified.
Background checks required on all first-time teaching applicants, mandatory reporting expanded, and teacher code of ethics codified in statute and code of ethics repealed in rule.
Prekindergarten through grade 12 education policy changes made including general education, education excellence, nutrition, and facilities; and reports required.
Dyslexia screening required.
Teacher licensure requirements modified.
School sexual harassment and sex discrimination laws compliance required, training required, and money appropriated.
Low-income student access to driver education programs expanded, driver education work group established, report required, and money appropriated.
Pupil transportation adjustment calculation modified, pupil transportation working group provided, and report required.
Healthy and safe relationships instruction curriculum in school required, and money appropriated.
K-12 scholarship fund donation tax credit provided.
Professional Educators Licensing and Standards Board directed to adopt endorsement standards enabling licensed high school teachers to provide high school dual enrollment instruction.
Erin's Law personal safety instruction required.
School resource officer requirements established.
National motto display in schools provided.
Youth organizations informational access to students permitted.
School start times provided.
Student performance data collection modified.
Sunscreen possession and use at school provided.
P-TECH schools established, and money appropriated.
Special education data online reporting required, special education online system funding provided, and money appropriated.
Paraprofessional paid orientation required, training funding provided, and money appropriated.
Individualized education program requirements modified.
School safety technical assistance center and School Safety Technical Assistance Council extended.
Compulsory instruction requirements modified, and school districts required to offer kindergarten.
Special education legislative working group established, and report required.
School districts required to pay the cost of a college course entrance exam for all students in grade 11 or 12, funding provided to reimburse districts for college entrance exam costs, and money appropriated.
Transition planning eliminated from starting in grade 9, and rulemaking authorized.
Teacher license revocation or denial for certain behavior involving a student allowed.
Teacher license hearing required prior to renewing, suspending, or revoking a license.
Curriculum review and best practice sharing established, and money appropriated.
Nonpublic pupil aid calculation modified, and money appropriated.
Commissioner of education required to develop an academic achievement rating system, and rulemaking required.
Mental health education requirements amended.
Textbook definition modified.
Conciliation conference requirements amended.
Criminal sexual conduct behavior in the third and fourth degrees specified in secondary schools.
Dyslexia specialist duties modified.
Deaf and hard-of-hearing teaching license requirements modified, oral/aural deaf education teaching license review directed, and report required.
Education; conciliation conference eliminated.
Minnesota Reads task force established to review children and adult literacy programs, report required, and money appropriated.
Individualized education programs; functional behavior assessments allowed under certain circumstances.
School districts required to establish teacher mentoring programs, and staff development revenue allowed uses modified.
Early learning scholarship age eligibility amended.
Alternative fire drills for schools and education institutions authorized.
Dyslexia instruction in teacher preparation programs required.
School board adoption of student mobile device policies required.
School readiness assessment for children entering kindergarten required.
High school government and citizenship course required for graduation.
Students ensured to be adequately prepared to be capable citizens able to fully participate in the political process.
School districts authorized to begin the school year before Labor Day in the 2020-2021 and 2021-2022 school years.
Nonresident pupil transportation within resident district provisions modified, and achievement and integration district transfers modified.
School board options expanded when disposing of surplus computers.
Public employee definition amended to include replacement employees who are employed for more than 60 days as a replacement teacher or faculty member.
Textbook definition modified, and obsolete language deleted.
Graduation fees prohibited, and school district fees report required.
Choice scholarships created for students who have dropped out of high school, rulemaking authorized, and money appropriated.
Shared time pupils definition expanded.
Nonpublic students in grade 10 authorized to participate in career and technical courses offered through the postsecondary enrollment options program.
School districts allowed to begin school year before Labor Day.
High school seniors participation in apprenticeships allowed through program created.
Castle Rock Township; charter school applicant enrollment preference created.
Music education access grant program for rural Minnesota created, report required, and money appropriated.
Teacher contract deadline created, and late contract penalty imposed.
Graduation and civics testing requirements modified to ensure students are adequately prepared to be capable citizens able to fully participate in the political process.
School testing materials expenditures required, and report to the legislature required.
Child safety curriculum in kindergarten through grade 12 required.
Charter school admission lotteries modified.
Education; nonsubstantive style and form statute changes made, and obsolete statutes repealed.
Teacher preparation programs surveyed, and report required.
Teacher code of ethics in statute codified and code of ethics in rule repealed, and school districts ethics complaint procedures required.
Student testing provisions modified.
World's best workforce performance measures and reports modified, and report required.
Intermediate school districts statutes renumbered.
Medical cannabis (marijuana) registry program establishment
Metropolitan council additional investment authority authorization
Charter school authorizers annual review required.
Omnibus education policy bill.
School district employee health coverage provisions amended.
Commissioner of education directed to prepare report for the legislature on K-12 students' experience with physical education.
Therapists included within the teacher bargaining unit.
Service-learning integrated into Minnesota's education system, evidence based service-learning grant program established, and money appropriated.
Health impact assessment money appropriated, and report required.
Dual credit provisions established and modified.
Student performance data; cohort definition clarified.
Education commissioner directed to consult with experts to determine the content and status of Minnesota's career and technical education programs, and money appropriated.
Special education; paperwork burdens reduced by creating a unified online system for collecting and reporting required special education due process data and therby increasing opportunities for special education educators to focus on teaching students.
Special Education Case Load and Rule Alignment Task Force (2014) recommendations implemented, and commissioner of education authorized to use expedited rulemaking to implement the rule recommendations of the task force.
Independent School District No. 2142, St. Louis County; meetings outside the district authorized.
Student data access addressed, student personal information disclosure requirements clarified, Minnesota allowed to withdraw from an agreement affecting its autonomy over state academic standards, and personal information managed in electronic student education records.
Educational opportunity for military children interstate compact adopted, and military-connected youth identifier required.
Native and English language development and academic needs of English learners from young children to adults recognized.
School liability provisions modified and civil cause of action created.
Student-to-school counselor ratio required to be at national average, task force on racial diversity of teachers and guidance counselors created, and report required.
School service contracts best value analysis and minimum standards required.
Military member or their spouses or inactive military veteran license or certification expediting required by professional licensing boards, and report required.
Bilingual and ESL employment prohibition repealed to replace a presently employed teacher who otherwise would not be replaced.
St. Paul Promise Neighborhood (SPPN) grant money appropriated.
Teacher evaluation programs aligned.
Northside Achievement Zone grant funds appropriated.
School district review and comment requirements modified.
Practice or student teacher placement limited.
Information technology certifications provided through public-private partnership, and money appropriated.
Standard adult high school diploma requirements established.
Teachers; performance-based pay system provided.
Independent School District Nos. 152, Moorhead, and 2164, Dilworth-Glyndon-Felton; voluntary realignment of school district boundaries authorized.
Education Department; redundant, obsolete, and superseded provisions removed; miscellaneous corrections to statutes made.
Healthy relationship and sexual development programs provided, and money appropriated.
Environmental education advancement program established, and money appropriated.
Science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) programs established to increase competitiveness, and money appropriated.
Special education caseload provisions modified.
Learning area center assignment provision removed.
Teaching Board directed to enter into teacher licensure interstate reciprocity agreement.
Teacher licensure provisions modified.
Probationary teacher continuing employment definition clarified.
Restrictive procedures standards clarified for schools, and money appropriated.
Aquatics instruction required in public schools.
Online learning enrollment notice required.
Teacher licensure testing requirements clarified.
School year-long student teaching pilot program established, and money appropriated.
Postsecondary enrollment options program modified, transportation funding source for pupils attending an area learning center created, and money appropriated.
Education services and sharing of district resources innovative delivery pilot project clarified, and money appropriated.
Cultural and Ethnic Leadership Communities Council established for the Education Department.
Special education provisions modified.
Education; single purpose authorizer definition clarified.
Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children working group created to study compliance.
Teacher background check requirements modified.
Postsecondary tuition endowment establishment task force created.
Recovery program additional funding sources created for students, and money appropriated.
Technology and educational service innovative partnership authorized.
Children under age seven who voluntarily enroll in school are subject to the compulsory attendance law clarification provided.
Local literacy plans amended.
Minnesota's career pathways and technical education system key elements further clarified, and P-20 partnership support enlisted.
Obscenity law exemptions removed for public schools and postsecondary institutions.
Charter school provisions modified.
Intervention requirement response established, and committee established to review statewide testing.
Advanced placement computer science course allowed to fulfill a mathemetics or science credit requirement.
High school students with disabilities allowed to transfer between schools without affecting their eligibility for varsity competition.
Alternative compensation preparation revenue established; funding increased for school districts and charter schools engaged in teacher development, evaluation, and peer coaching; and money appropriated.
Student assessment reporting requirements modified.
Teacher-compliant data sharing provided.
Compulsory instruction provisions modified.
School district staff development mandate eliminated, compensatory revenue allocation modified, school district authorized to publish its minutes and budget information on its website, and first class mail requirement eliminated for some notices.
Latino student graduation rate and higher education enrollment grants created for a pilot program, and money appropriated.
Teachers; advisory task force on better aligning Minnesota's alternative teacher professional pay system and teacher evaluation program established.
Military Interstate Children's Compact complied with.
September 1 school start date permitted for 2015-2016 school year only.
Teachers' unrequested leaves of absence and teaching assignments policies modified.
School district land detachment and annexation process amended.
Teachers unrequested leave of absence provisions modified.
Nontraditional student instructional program choices ensured, students' personal learning plans modified, and report required.
Transfer student's eligibility to participate in varsity competition clarified, district required to investigate a transfer student's eligibility, financial penalties imposed, and residency fraud task force established.
Speech-language pathologist temporary limited license requirements clarified.
Charter schools located in townships and admitting students pre-K through grade 6 enrollment preferences clarified.
Teacher licensure provisions modified.
Student placement with ineffective teachers prohibition established.
Charter school approval provisions modified.
Students' proficiency in languages in addition to English further recognized.
Second world language proficiency made a high school graduation requirement.
School districts, charter schools, and private schools unfunded mandates prohibited.
Student Religious Liberties Act established.
Special education recommendations made by the legislative auditor implemented, rulemaking authorized, report required, funding provided, and money appropriated.
Students' economic circumstances made a criterion for arranging competitive interscholastic conferences and determining competitive classifications.
2013 legislative auditor's report on special education portions implemented.
Special education scholarship program created.
Board of School Administrators required to study the development of a Minnesota comprehensive system for principal development, and report required.
Career and college improved readiness provided, high school graduation exams aligned with college readiness, funding provided, and money appropriated.