1.1 A bill for an act
1.2 relating to education; providing for reporting of student fights; amending Minnesota
1.3 Statutes 2024, section 121A.53.
1.4BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:
1.5 Section 1. Minnesota Statutes 2024, section 121A.53, is amended to read:
1.6 121A.53 REPORT TO COMMISSIONER OF EDUCATION.
1.7 Subdivision 1.Exclusions and expulsions; student withdrawals; physical
1.8assaults.Consistent with subdivision 2, the school board must report through the department
1.9electronic reporting system each exclusion or expulsion, each fight involving pupils that is
1.10witnessed by a district employee, each physical assault of a district employee by a pupil,
1.11and each pupil withdrawal agreement within 30 days of the effective date of the dismissal
1.12action, pupil withdrawal, or assault, to the commissioner of education. This report must
1.13include a statement of nonexclusionary disciplinary practices, or other sanction, intervention,
1.14or resolution in response to the assault given the pupil and the reason for, the effective date,
1.15and the duration of the exclusion or expulsion or other sanction, intervention, or resolution.
1.16The report must also include the pupil's age, grade, gender, race, and special education
1.17status.
1.18 Subd. 2.Report.(a) The school board must include state student identification numbers
1.19of affected pupils on all dismissal and other disciplinary reports required by the department.
1.20The department must report annually to the commissioner summary data on the number of
1.21dismissals, fights involving pupils witnessed by a district employee, and physical assaults
1.22of district employees by a student by age, grade, gender, race, and special education status
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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
H. F. No. 988
NINETY-FOURTH SESSION
Authored by Gordon02/17/2025
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
2.2the department electronic reporting system.
2.3 (b) The commissioner must aggregate the district data reported under this section and
2.4include the aggregated data, including aggregated data on physical assaults of a district
2.5employee by a student, in the annual school performance reports under section 120B.36.
2.6 Subd. 3.Fighting witnessed by a district employee.A school district employee who
2.7witnesses fighting between pupils must report the incident to the building administrator
2.8responsible for discipline and must file a police report. The school board must report the
2.9incident to the department according to this section and verify that a police report was filed
2.10by the district employee who witnessed the fight.
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