1.1 	A bill for an act
1.2 	relating to education finance; appropriating money for a program grant to Network 
1.3 	for the Development of Children of African Descent.
1.4 	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.5 	Section 1. APPROPRIATION.
 1.6 		Subdivision 1.Department of Education. The sum indicated in this section is 
1.7 	appropriated from the general fund to the commissioner of education for the fiscal year 
1.8 	designated.
1.9 		Subd. 2.Network for the Development of Children of African Descent. (a) For a 
1.10 	grant to the Network for the Development of Children of African Descent (NdCAD) to 
1.11 	expand the organization's holistic, evidence-based programming that has been proven to 
1.12 	address disparate, literacy, education, and family stabilization outcomes for African American 
1.13 	children and their families, breaking generational cycles of poverty.

1.14		$
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	2023
	
1.15 	(b) Program and expansion activities must include:
1.16 	(1) providing holistic programming for parents, caregivers, and children in 
1.17 	prekindergarten through grade 8 using a two-generation or whole-family approach to support 
1.18 	healthy child development through programming that is culturally responsive and focused 
1.19 	on building foundational literacy, self-determination, and self-reliance;
1.20 	(2) expanding the organization's family-centered home learning curricula and materials 
1.21 	that support learning at home and school;
2.1 	(3) providing training and consulting services to education and human service providers 
2.2 	on improving culturally responsive services to children and families who are experiencing 
2.3 	disparate outcomes; and
2.4 	(4) scaling or replicating the organization's proven models in the seven-county 
2.5 	metropolitan area and in other regions of Minnesota outside of the seven-county metropolitan 
2.6 	area.

2.7 	EFFECTIVE DATE. This section is effective July 1, 2022.