SF0579 - Minnesota: ECFE program enhancement and accountability plan; developmental assessment at kindergarten entrance; parent education grants

1E Expanding the early childhood family education (ECFE) program to include programming for parents and children at risk of not being kindergarten ready, allowing programs to use early learning guidelines developed by the commissioner of human services or the early childhood indicators of progress developed by the commissioner of education; requiring the commissioner of education to develop a program accountability plan focusing on race, ethnicity and income demographics to ensure ECFE statewide accessibility; increasing ECFE funding; requiring the commissioner of education to implement a kindergarten readiness assessment based on a certain model developed by the department of education, to expand to all districts developmental assessments voluntarily administered to entering kindergartners and to set periodic progress milestones in the number of children demonstrating proficiency on assessment measures; requiring and providing [...]

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