2025 Minnesota Statutes

123B.32 LANGUAGE ACCESS PLAN.

Subdivision 1.Language access plan required.

Starting in the 2025-2026 school year, during a regularly scheduled public board hearing, a school board must adopt a language access plan that specifies the district's process and procedures to render effective language assistance to students and adults who communicate in a language other than English or require additional assistance due to a disability. The language access plan must be available to the public and included in the school's handbook.

Subd. 2.Plan requirements.

The language access plan must include how the district and its schools will use trained or certified spoken language interpreters for communication related to academic outcomes, progress, determinations, and placement of students in specialized programs and services, such as special education and related individualized education programs under section 125A.08; ensure meaningful participation in the individualized education program process by families where the family speaks a language other than English or has a disability themselves; how families and communities will be notified of their rights under this plan; and a process to appeal the accommodations of the access plan if needs are not met.

Subd. 3.Regular review.

The board must review the plan every two years and update the plan as appropriate.

History:

2024 c 109 art 2 s 22; 1Sp2025 c 10 art 7 s 1,2