Minnesota Statutes Education Code: Prekindergarten-Grade 12 (Ch. 120-129C) § 120B.02. Educational expectations and graduation requirements for Minnesota's students

Subdivision 1.Educational expectations.(a) The legislature is committed to establishing rigorous academic standards for Minnesota's public school students. To that end, the commissioner shall adopt in rule statewide academic standards. The commissioner shall not prescribe in rule or otherwise the delivery system, classroom assessments, or form of instruction that school sites must use.

(b) All commissioner actions regarding the rule must be premised on the following:

(c) The commissioner shall periodically review and report on the state's assessment process.

(d) School districts are not required to adopt specific provisions of the federal School-to-Work programs.

Subd. 2. Graduation requirements. (a) To graduate from high school, students must demonstrate to their enrolling school district or school their satisfactory completion of the credit requirements undersection 120B.024and their understanding of academic standards. A school district must adopt graduation requirements that meet or exceed state graduation requirements established in law or rule.

(b) Students ages 19 to 21 who have not yet graduated from a Minnesota high school and, but for their age, are otherwise eligible to participate in an adult basic education program may be admitted to an adult high school diploma program undersection 124D.52, subdivisions 8and9.