SF 4449
Introduction - 94th Legislature (2025 - 2026)
Posted on 03/18/2026 09:07 a.m.
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A bill for an act
relating to children, youth, and families; appropriating money for Rally to Read.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:
Section 1. new text begin APPROPRIATION; MINNESOTA'S RALLY TO READ.
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new text begin Department of Children, Youth, and Families. new text end
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The sum indicated in
this section is appropriated from the general fund to the Department of Children, Youth,
and Families in the fiscal year designated.
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new text begin Rally to Read. new text end
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(a) For a grant to Minnesota's Rally to Read:
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250,000 new text end |
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(b) Grant money must be used to support community reading coalitions throughout the
state that work toward making Minnesota the state with the highest reading proficiency
scores and the fewest inequities, with a focus on optimizing every child's brain development
during the crucial years of prenatal to age three. Appropriate uses of grant money may
include but are not limited to staffing to coordinate statewide implementation, community
reading coalition facilitation, meeting expenses, data tracking, benchmark dashboard
monitoring, and evaluation.
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(c) Rally to Read must implement a targeted strategy to prioritize delivering literacy
resources to the children who need it the most. The community reading coalitions must
build on existing programs that have a proven track record of delivering results that benefit
children to ensure children are prepared to read by age three and are able to read proficiently
at every grade level.
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(d) Each dollar of grant money received must be matched with private money.
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(e) This is a onetime appropriation and is available until June 30, 2028.
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