Bill > SF1525

This bill creates education savings accounts (ESAs) as a learning option for eligible students in Minnesota. The key provisions are: - Establishes the "Education Savings Accounts for Students Act" to provide ESAs for eligible students, defined as Minnesota residents who attended a public school the previous semester and are from a household with an annual income not exceeding three times the reduced-price meal income standard. - Allows parents to use ESA funds for a variety of educational expenses, including tuition and fees at eligible nonpublic schools, tutoring, curriculum, transportation, testing fees, and educational services or therapies. - Specifies that the Minnesota Department of Education will administer the program, including determining ESA amounts, auditing accounts, and enforcing policies around misuse of funds. - Appropriates and adjusts funding for various education programs to account for the new ESA program. The bill aims to provide families more flexibility and choice in their children's education by establishing this new ESA program as an alternative to traditional public schooling.

Budget and Finance, Education, Government Affairs

https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/bill.php?b=Senate&f=SF1525&ssn=0&y=2021