SF 1056

Introduction - 94th Legislature (2025 - 2026)

Posted on 02/11/2025 09:32 a.m.

A bill for an act
relating to education; requiring a district advisory committee to comply with chapter
13D and give notice of meetings; amending Minnesota Statutes 2024, section
120B.11, subdivision 3.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

Section 1.

Minnesota Statutes 2024, section 120B.11, subdivision 3, is amended to read:

Subd. 3.

District advisory committee.

Each school board must establish an advisory
committee to ensure active community participation in all phases of planning and improving
the instruction and curriculum affecting state and district academic standards, consistent
with subdivision 2. A district advisory committee, to the extent possible, must reflect the
diversity of the district and its school sites, include teachers, parents, support staff, students,
and other community residents, and provide translation to the extent appropriate and
practicable. The district advisory committee must pursue community support to accelerate
the academic and native literacy and achievement of English learners with varied needs,
from young children to adults, consistent with section 124D.59, subdivisions 2 and 2a. The
district may establish site teams as subcommittees of the district advisory committee under
subdivision 4. The district advisory committee must recommend to the school board: rigorous
academic standards; student achievement goals and measures consistent with subdivision
1a and sections 120B.022, subdivisions 1a and 1b, and 120B.35; district assessments; means
to improve students' equitable access to effective and more diverse teachers; strategies to
ensure the curriculum is rigorous, accurate, antiracist, culturally sustaining, and reflects the
diversity of the student population; strategies to ensure that curriculum and learning and
work environments validate, affirm, embrace, and integrate the cultural and community
strengths of all racial and ethnic groups; and program evaluations. School sites may expand
upon district evaluations of instruction, curriculum, assessments, or programs. Whenever
possible, parents and other community residents must comprise at least two-thirds of advisory
committee members. new text begin A district advisory committee and subcommittees of the district
advisory committee must comply with chapter 13D related to the open meeting law and
must provide notice to the public of regular and special meetings.
new text end