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Minnesota

Reviewed policies, grades and school implementation dates. District examples cover 0 distinct districts; it is not a statewide implementation survey.

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Rules for use: affected grades and timing

Personal devices · statewide finding

Elementary: Local policy required
Middle: Local policy required
High: Local policy required

Every school district and charter school must adopt a cellphone policy; this section sets no uniform prohibition.

Policy deadline March 15, 2025.

Exceptions & source ↗

School devices, screen time and student AI

No reviewed policy is available here for these topics yet. Further research appears in the policy explorer.

Learning & relevant rules for use

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Digital literacy

Current · Standards development required

Requires the Education Commissioner to embed technology and information-literacy standards in state academic standards and graduation requirements and review them on the standards cycle.

Ongoing requirement to embed technology and information literacy in state academic standards and graduation requirements. This paragraph does not require a standalone course.

Source & dates

Relevant rules for use

Personal devices: Local policy required

Policy deadline March 15, 2025.

Device scope, exceptions & source

Middle

Digital literacy

Current · Standards development required

Requires the Education Commissioner to embed technology and information-literacy standards in state academic standards and graduation requirements and review them on the standards cycle.

Ongoing requirement to embed technology and information literacy in state academic standards and graduation requirements. This paragraph does not require a standalone course.

Source & dates

Relevant rules for use

Personal devices: Local policy required

Policy deadline March 15, 2025.

Device scope, exceptions & source

High

Digital literacy

Current · Standards development required

Requires the Education Commissioner to embed technology and information-literacy standards in state academic standards and graduation requirements and review them on the standards cycle.

Ongoing requirement to embed technology and information literacy in state academic standards and graduation requirements. This paragraph does not require a standalone course.

Source & dates

Relevant rules for use

Personal devices: Local policy required

Policy deadline March 15, 2025.

Device scope, exceptions & source

Teacher capacity, funding & delivery

No reviewed support program is listed here yet. Individual policy details include any documented funding or training provision.

Questions for a district curriculum meeting

Which students receive instruction, in which grades and subjects, and for how much time?
What sequence connects computing concepts, data, AI understanding and digital judgment?
Who teaches it, and what training, preparation time and accessible materials do they receive?
Which documented funding or services can support delivery, and what remains a local budget decision?
What student work demonstrates understanding? Check who participates and who is missing.

These are Stewart Brown’s planning questions, not additional legal requirements.

Reviewed policy findings, district examples & history (3 records)

Restrictions

Current evidence indexed

1 action in this collection

Governance

Current evidence indexed

1 action in this collection

Learning

Current evidence indexed

1 action in this collection

Current statewide policies

Minnesota· State / DCCurrent

SF 3567 / 2024 education policy act

Every school district and charter school must adopt a cellphone policy; this section sets no uniform prohibition.

Reviewed against official sources · Oct 3, 2026

Personal devices

Requirement: Required with local discretion
Grades: All K-12
Learning evidence: No student-learning claim

School implementation: Policy deadline March 15, 2025.

Evidence & dates Primary source ↗

Minnesota· State / DCCurrent

Minnesota Guiding Principles for AI in Education

Establishes guiding principles and implementation resources for safe, equitable and human-centered AI use in Minnesota schools.

Reviewed against official sources · Oct 4, 2026

AI governance

Requirement: Recommended
Grades: All K-12
Learning evidence: No student-learning claim

School implementation: Advisory state framework for local AI use; no statewide student AI ban or course requirement in the cited guidance.

Evidence & dates Primary source ↗

Minnesota· State / DCCurrent

Minn. Stat. §120B.021, subd. 4

Requires the Education Commissioner to embed technology and information-literacy standards in state academic standards and graduation requirements and review them on the standards cycle.

Reviewed against official sources · Oct 4, 2026

Digital literacy

Requirement: Required
Grades: All K-12
Learning evidence: Standards development required

School implementation: Ongoing requirement to embed technology and information literacy in state academic standards and graduation requirements. This paragraph does not require a standalone course.

Evidence & dates Primary source ↗

Upcoming requirements

No records in this section have been published. This is an evidence gap in the collection, not a determination that no relevant action exists.

Proposals under consideration

No records in this section have been published. This is an evidence gap in the collection, not a determination that no relevant action exists.

Selected district examples

No records in this section have been published. This is an evidence gap in the collection, not a determination that no relevant action exists.

Historical records

No records in this section have been published. This is an evidence gap in the collection, not a determination that no relevant action exists.

Evidence coverage & remaining research

Consistent 16-dimension checklist

Coverage & remaining research

Inventory reviewed October 3, 2026. 3/16 dimensions have published evidence of any status. Every dimension remains open to additional sources and superseding actions.

Dimension	Current statewide evidence	Other published evidence
Personal devices	1 linked action	0 current district actions · 0 future, proposed, or historical
School-issued devices	Not yet established	Research gap · no absence conclusion
Screen time	Not yet established	Research gap · no absence conclusion
Student AI	Not yet established	Research gap · no absence conclusion
Staff AI	Not yet established	Research gap · no absence conclusion
AI governance	1 linked action	0 current district actions · 0 future, proposed, or historical
Social media / network	Not yet established	Research gap · no absence conclusion
Privacy / cybersecurity	Not yet established	Research gap · no absence conclusion
AI literacy	Not yet established	Research gap · no absence conclusion
Computer science	Not yet established	Research gap · no absence conclusion
Digital literacy	1 linked action	0 current district actions · 0 future, proposed, or historical
Media literacy	Not yet established	Research gap · no absence conclusion
Digital citizenship	Not yet established	Research gap · no absence conclusion
Cybersecurity literacy	Not yet established	Research gap · no absence conclusion
Data literacy	Not yet established	Research gap · no absence conclusion
Social-media literacy	Not yet established	Research gap · no absence conclusion

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