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MDE presents agency education policy bill outlining McKinney-Vento codification, bullying updates and charter-school fixes
Summary
Commissioner Willie Jett and MDE staff walked the Senate Education Policy Committee through Senate File 3,870, proposing codification of McKinney-Vento protections, updates to bullying response obligations and clarifications to school-safety drill and charter-school statutes.
Commissioner Willie Jett, of the Minnesota Department of Education, told the Senate Education Policy Committee on March 18 that the agency's policy bill, Senate File 3,870, is chiefly technical but designed to strengthen local implementation and clarify state law. "These students and their families often face the significant disruption and instability," Jett said, describing provisions to put certain federal protections into state statute.
MDE said the bill would codify existing McKinney-Vento protections…
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