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Board reviews potential 2025 legislative priorities: data practices, funding and testing among proposals
Summary
The board’s legislative committee presented a draft list of potential 2025 state priorities, including modifications to the Government Data Practices Act, increasing general education aid, raising local optional revenue authority, addressing special education and English‑learner cross‑subsidies, and reviewing statewide assessment options.
Rochester Public School District board members reviewed a draft set of potential legislative priorities for the 2025 Minnesota legislative session during the Jan. 14 study session and asked staff and the legislative committee to refine the list ahead of the Jan. 21 regular meeting.
Board Chair Karen Nathan opened the discussion and staff noted the list was drawn from multiple sources: the Minnesota School Boards Association (MSBA), Association of Metropolitan School Districts (AMSD), the delegate assembly and district input. “When everything is a priority, nothing is a priority,” Nathan said, urging focus in the selection process.
Highlights of the draft priorities discussed by the board included:
- Modify the Government Data Practices Act to reduce administrative cost and clarify permissible local uses of certain data, a measure the MSBA delegate assembly had unanimously supported; staff said the goal is to reduce burdens…
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