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MN LEAPS Act: Learning English for Academic Proficiency and Success

The LEAPS Act creates policy space for our state to progressively support multilingual learners and their families. Together with ESSA (Every Student Succeeds Act) and WBWF (World’s Best Workforce), these three laws ensure that:

1. multilingualism and multiculturalism are positioned as educational and economic assets,

2. teachers and administrators receive appropriate preparation and continued professional development to support multilingual learners,

3. instruction is differentiated for the diversity of multilingual learners, and

4. multicultural family voices are engaged and included in the educational process.

The LEAPS Act can be found in 42 statutes.