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Governor Walz amends Executive Order 20-94
Posted by MASA on 11/6/2020
Governor Tim Walz on November 6, 2020, issued Emergency Executive Order 20-95, which amends Executive Order 20-94 to clarify the effective date of Paragraph 9.
• Upon approval by the Executive Council, as soon as is practicable but no later than November 30, 2020, a school district or charter school must count 30 minutes per day for teacher preparation to provide instruction to students in distance learning or a distance learning or hybrid learning model, as instructional time toward meeting the minimum hours required by Minnesota Statutes 2019, section 120A.41. This teacher preparation time is for students receiving instruction in distance learning or a distance learning or hybrid model. This time is in addition to a school district’s or charter school’s teacher preparation time established under Minnesota Statutes 2019, section 122A.50.
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Special Session Update: October 15, 2020
from MASA Lobbyis Valerie Dosland
This week Governor Walz called the Minnesota legislature into its fifth special session of the interim. While debate continued around the use of the Governor’s peacetime emergency powers to address COVID-19, there was also movement on a bonding and tax bill. HF1, which passed both the House and Senate today, includes $1.9 billion for capital projects and some tax provisions. Although previous proposals included tax provisions of interest to schools (debt service equalization aid and a fix for school district fundraising sales), the bill passed today does not.
During the special session, Rep. Jim Davnie, Chair of the House Education Finance Committee, introduced legislation to address school district declining enrollment due to COVID-19. This bill would allow districts to use enrollment figures from either 2020 or 2019, whichever is greater. It did not advance but there is hope it might during a November special session so please connect with your state legislators and encourage them to advance this legislation.
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Special Session Update: July 20, 2020
from Valerie DoslandA week after being called to special session, the House and Senate adjourned early Tuesday morning. While a policing reform bill is on its way to the Governor, the legislature was not able to pass a bonding and tax bill because the House could not obtain the necessary votes needed to pass the bill.
While the focus was primarily on these other bills, there was lengthy debate in the Senate on two education proposals. The first was a Senate resolution urging the Governor to exclude public schools from any further executive orders issued under his emergency powers. The resolution passed the Senate, but a similar proposal was not taken up in the House. The second proposal was SF3, which proposed to direct $25 million out of the coronavirus relief federal fund for school reopening grants. The proposal passed the Senate, but the House did not take up this issue so nothing ultimately was passed. The House and Senate adjourned so if any proposals were to move forward, they would not do so unless Governor Walz calls another special session and the proposals a reintroduced.
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Special Session Update: July 14, 2020
from Valerie Dosland
There are several provisions of interest in HF3, the Omnibus Capital Investment and Tax Bill.
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Special Session Update: June 22, 2020
from Valerie Dosland
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2020 legislative session adjourns, special session likely
from Valerie Dosland
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Session Update: May 4, 2020
from Valerie Dosland
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HF163: April 27, 2020
from Valerie Dosland
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Session Update: April 27, 2020
by Valerie Dosland
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Session Update: April 20, 2020
by Valerie Dosland
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Session Update: April 13, 2020
by Valerie Dosland
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Session Update: April 6, 2020
by Valerie Dosland
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Session Update: State of the State
by Valerie Dosland
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Session Update: March 23, 2020
by Valerie Dosland
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Session Update: March 2, 2020
by Valerie Dosland
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Session Update: February 28, 2020
by Valerie Dosland
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Session Update: February 24, 2020
by Valerie Dosland
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Session Update: February 17, 2020
by Valerie Dosland