| 1 | 1 | | 1.1 A bill for an act |
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| 2 | 2 | | 1.2 relating to education; providing for reporting of student fights; amending Minnesota |
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| 3 | 3 | | 1.3 Statutes 2024, section 121A.53. |
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| 4 | 4 | | 1.4BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: |
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| 5 | 5 | | 1.5 Section 1. Minnesota Statutes 2024, section 121A.53, is amended to read: |
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| 6 | 6 | | 1.6 121A.53 REPORT TO COMMISSIONER OF EDUCATION. |
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| 7 | 7 | | 1.7 Subdivision 1.Exclusions and expulsions; student withdrawals; physical |
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| 8 | 8 | | 1.8assaults.Consistent with subdivision 2, the school board must report through the department |
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| 9 | 9 | | 1.9electronic reporting system each exclusion or expulsion, each fight involving pupils that is |
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| 10 | 10 | | 1.10witnessed by a district employee, each physical assault of a district employee by a pupil, |
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| 11 | 11 | | 1.11and each pupil withdrawal agreement within 30 days of the effective date of the dismissal |
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| 12 | 12 | | 1.12action, pupil withdrawal, or assault, to the commissioner of education. This report must |
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| 13 | 13 | | 1.13include a statement of nonexclusionary disciplinary practices, or other sanction, intervention, |
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| 14 | 14 | | 1.14or resolution in response to the assault given the pupil and the reason for, the effective date, |
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| 15 | 15 | | 1.15and the duration of the exclusion or expulsion or other sanction, intervention, or resolution. |
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| 16 | 16 | | 1.16The report must also include the pupil's age, grade, gender, race, and special education |
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| 17 | 17 | | 1.17status. |
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| 18 | 18 | | 1.18 Subd. 2.Report.(a) The school board must include state student identification numbers |
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| 19 | 19 | | 1.19of affected pupils on all dismissal and other disciplinary reports required by the department. |
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| 20 | 20 | | 1.20The department must report annually to the commissioner summary data on the number of |
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| 21 | 21 | | 1.21dismissals, fights involving pupils witnessed by a district employee, and physical assaults |
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| 22 | 22 | | 1.22of district employees by a student by age, grade, gender, race, and special education status |
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| 23 | 23 | | 1Section 1. |
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| 24 | 24 | | REVISOR CR/AD 25-0103012/13/24 |
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| 25 | 25 | | State of Minnesota |
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| 26 | 26 | | This Document can be made available |
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| 27 | 27 | | in alternative formats upon request |
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| 28 | 28 | | HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES |
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| 29 | 29 | | H. F. No. 988 |
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| 30 | 30 | | NINETY-FOURTH SESSION |
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| 31 | 31 | | Authored by Gordon02/17/2025 |
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| 32 | 32 | | The bill was read for the first time and referred to the Committee on Education Policy 2.1of the affected pupils. All dismissal and other disciplinary reports must be submitted through |
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| 33 | 33 | | 2.2the department electronic reporting system. |
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| 34 | 34 | | 2.3 (b) The commissioner must aggregate the district data reported under this section and |
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| 35 | 35 | | 2.4include the aggregated data, including aggregated data on physical assaults of a district |
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| 36 | 36 | | 2.5employee by a student, in the annual school performance reports under section 120B.36. |
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| 37 | 37 | | 2.6 Subd. 3.Fighting witnessed by a district employee.A school district employee who |
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| 38 | 38 | | 2.7witnesses fighting between pupils must report the incident to the building administrator |
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| 39 | 39 | | 2.8responsible for discipline and must file a police report. The school board must report the |
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| 40 | 40 | | 2.9incident to the department according to this section and verify that a police report was filed |
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| 41 | 41 | | 2.10by the district employee who witnessed the fight. |
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| 42 | 42 | | 2Section 1. |
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| 43 | 43 | | REVISOR CR/AD 25-0103012/13/24 |
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