{ "program": "National Deaf Education Data Index", "state": "Minnesota", "state_number": "23", "postal_code": "MN", "version": "2.0", "released": "2026-09-28", "baseline": "SY 2025 (School Year 2024 - 2025)", "as_of": "2026-09-28", "url": "https://www.ndedi.org/states/mn/v2.0/", "doi": "10.5281/zenodo.23253516", "publisher": "Novara Consulting Group LLC", "summary_terms": "Free summary layer: use with attribution (STD-004 v1.0 section 3).", "formulations": { "none_found": "NONE FOUND is a statement about publication, not about service delivery.", "idea_obligations": "Obligations under IDEA are not evidence of a program." }, "plain_language_summary": "Minnesota has run a state school for Deaf students in Faribault since 1863, now the Minnesota State Academy for the Deaf, which the state funds directly and runs with its blind counterpart under one board. Most Deaf and hard of hearing students are taught in their own districts: the state counted 2,552 of them in December 2024 and 2,623 a year later. One public charter school, Metro Deaf School in St. Paul, is built around Deaf students and enrolled 176 in the fall of 2025. This file read the website of every school district, charter school and regional cooperative in the state, 541 in all. Sixty-five publish a program, a service or a staff position for Deaf and hard of hearing students, one hundred twenty-one mention hearing only in a list or in passing, three hundred fifty-two publish nothing, one could not be read, and two are districts that operate no school. A district that publishes nothing may still serve its Deaf students well; the finding is about what a family can find. Much of the service runs through regional low incidence projects and special education cooperatives rather than the districts themselves. Minnesota's aid formula weights a Deaf or hard of hearing student at $19,200 and a deafblind student at $25,200 inside a census computation, not a set payment. The state publishes how many Deaf and hard of hearing students it has statewide and by region, but not by district, so it cannot be shown where they are and whether their district publishes anything for them. Minnesota trains very few teachers of the deaf: the licensing board says the state has only one or two such programs. No state document tells a family how to choose between the state academy, a district program and the charter school.", "frame": { "statement": "541 units, the Minnesota local education agencies and cooperative units of the v1.0 frame carried into the v2.0 re-audit: 323 independent school districts, 162 charter LEAs, 17 special education cooperatives, 12 education districts, 9 service cooperatives, 4 intermediate districts, 3 vocational cooperatives, 3 miscellaneous cooperatives, 2 state agency schools (the Minnesota State Academies as unit 0160-70 and one other state agency school), 2 special districts, 2 common (non-operating) districts, 1 state agency (corrections) unit and 1 integration district. The frame is built from the frame instrument of record, the MDE-ORG organization directory (MdeOrgView), whose exports were retrieved by a person under D-050 on 24 September 2026 because the run's own tools landed on a browser error page (source 29; retrieval manifest in 01_Evidence). The District_School export's school-number-0 rows give 522 distinct units, whose ids and web hosts equal the 522 MDE-ORG units of v1.0 exactly; to these the frame adds v1.0's eight additions (two common districts and six cooperative units, all 28 heads on the department's Special Education Consortia list being in the frame), the seven 123A.21 service cooperatives that have no District_School row under the numbers MDE-ORG assigns them in its Special Education Director contact list (0920-83, 0921-83, 0922-83, 0923-83, 0924-83, 0927-83, 0928-83), two vocational cooperatives the type extract lists (0919-51, 0985-51) and, at the owner's direction, two units on the contact list only (6080-50, 6078-62): 541 units. Twenty entries are outside the frame with the reason recorded in 01_Evidence/03_LEA_Audit_Captures/23_Minnesota_outside_frame_entries_2026-09-24.csv (five charter numbers on the contact list with no District_School row and not on the Authorized Charter list, eleven non-instructional cooperatives and four tribally controlled schools funded by the Bureau of Indian Education). Charter schools are in the frame as their own LEAs (162 charter LEAs), Metro Deaf School among them; the Minnesota charter class is not excluded. No unit is OUT OF FRAME and none is NOT AUDITED; 1 unit is NOT VERIFIABLE with a reason recorded (Pine to Prairie Cooperative Center 0985-51: no website listed in any department extract and none found by search under D-039 on 28 September 2026), and the two common districts (Franconia 0323-02 and Prinsburg 0815-02) are NOT OPERATING under D-045: the LEA export lists each as a common district with a superintendent and the District_School export carries no school row for either.", "frame_count": 541, "exhaustive": true, "sample_rule": "", "class_exclusions": [ { "class": "Minnesota State Academy for the Blind (the blind counterpart of the two academies)", "count": 1, "basis": "Blind school; documented (MN-002) only to justify the exclusion. The academies share one board, one agency, one campus city and one biennial appropriation, so the boundary runs around MSAB as a program and through the shared machinery; the deaf academy MSAD stays in the frame as unit 0160-70" } ], "deaf_blind_boundary": "Minnesota runs the deaf academy and the blind academy as one state agency, the Minnesota State Academies, on two campuses in Faribault, under one governing board (125A.62 to 125A.63) and one biennial appropriation. The boundary runs around the Minnesota State Academy for the Blind as a program (its own students and staff) but through the shared machinery: one agency, one board with seats reserved for the Deaf community and the blind community, one superintendent, one campus city and one appropriation. Separable: the two academies' program rosters and staff. Not separable: the board, the agency and the appropriation. MSAB is documented only to the extent needed to justify its exclusion; the state's Deaf-Blind primary-category count (a separate matter from the blind academy) stays in the identified-population series as its own category.", "readable_subset": 540, "weak_evidence_count": 43 }, "normalizations_in_force": [ "the state's thirteen disability-category list, naming deaf and hard of hearing among the categories, is not evidence of an operated program (it codes MENTION at most)", "the USDA nondiscrimination notice naming American Sign Language, the Federal Relay Service line, public hearing notices, occupational hearing conservation plans, spoken-language interpreter notices and acronym collisions are not DHH content (they code NONE FOUND)", "the USDA nondiscrimination and Federal Relay Service notice naming American Sign Language is federal nutrition boilerplate, not hearing content", "website accessibility boilerplate is not hearing content", "a Region N Low Incidence Project or a low-incidence event reference is recorded with its operator and does not by itself make the hosting unit a DHH program operator", "an eligibility definition (Minnesota Rules 3525.1331) or Child Find category list without a service model codes MENTION", "public budget or tax hearing notices and due-process hearing officer text are standing false positives for the term hearing", "ELL and world-language interpreters are not DHH staff; an acronym hit (MSA, MSAD and the like) is opened before it is counted", "a district naming a cooperative, education district or intermediate district as its special-education or DHH provider is recorded with that operator in the mechanism column; the provider, not the naming district, is the operator", "D-037: a service named only as a list item is recorded with its evidence form; a category or eligibility list, a placement continuum, a regulatory definition, a generic related-service item, a screening or nondiscrimination notice, or an undifferentiated reference to an outside body is MENTION at most; a named DHH staff position on the unit's own staff is PROGRAM on weak evidence; a described program, department page or site is PROGRAM", "a cooperative, education district or intermediate district that names a DHH service among those it provides is PROGRAM on weak evidence with the operator named" ], "method_limitations": "Every unit was read in two passes: a first pass by a fetch fleet and a closure pass in the owner's rendered Chrome with the Minnesota closure probe (home page and linked special-education and program pages, a keyword and navigation model, a shell handling for client-side pages, within a per-unit time budget), then a small-site thin-read sweep on 27 September 2026 that re-read the 124 THIN home-only units and the 7 deferred units in the rendered browser (125 confirmed NONE FOUND, 1 MENTION, 1 PROGRAM). Every code rests on the rendered read. Container shell HTTP is prohibited by session policy and was not used. The frame instrument of record (MDE-ORG) was unreadable by the run's tools and its exports were retrieved by a person under D-050 on 24 September 2026; the frame of 541 is built from those exports with the additions the FRAME statement lists. The identified population is the state's December 1 count for the deaf and hard of hearing category, which Minnesota publishes at the state level and by region but not by district, so the publication-against-identified-population measure is reported as not computable and no district capacity numerator exists. The census funding factor is the served statute text ($19,200), against which a House Research guide's 19,100 is a recorded conflict. The academies' MSAD-only current-year enrollment, the academies' operating appropriation figure, the Minnesota IDEA Section 618 personnel FTE, the newborn screening series with years, and Metro Deaf School's formal 124E.21 designation were not read to figures this run and are records-request or human-retrieval gaps. The coverage codes rest on the compiler review of 28 September 2026: the 179 units the automated first pass coded PROGRAM or MENTION and the 40 units it coded NONE FOUND on boilerplate hits were each read against their captured pages and coded under FRM-004 and the normalizations above; the review record (every decision with its page) is filed in 04_Verification/review_2026-09-28. Sixteen units whose closure read fell below their v1.0 code were re-read at the v1.0 source page as a second attempt (D-040), with captures filed under 01_Evidence/03_LEA_Audit_Captures/review_2026-09-28: ten held their v1.0 evidence and were recoded, six had lost it or had rested on a cooperative's site or an empty directory filter. The units with no website in any department extract were searched under D-039 on 28 September 2026: three sites were found and read (NONE FOUND), one unit has no site (NOT VERIFIABLE after two attempts), and the one sweep code that had no capture (Southeast Service Cooperative) was re-read and captured. Two of the re-reads showed a limit of the probe's text rendering: a disability-category list held in a collapsed accordion is absent from the rendered text and present only in the DOM snapshot, so a unit's rendered read can miss a list its page carries; the review recorded both cases and the limit stands for the 312 units with no keyword hit, which rest on the rendered read.", "tallies_by_code": [ { "code": "PROGRAM", "count": 65, "percent_of_frame": 12, "percent_of_readable": 12 }, { "code": "MENTION", "count": 121, "percent_of_frame": 22.4, "percent_of_readable": 22.4 }, { "code": "NONE FOUND", "count": 352, "percent_of_frame": 65.1, "percent_of_readable": 65.2 }, { "code": "NOT VERIFIABLE", "count": 1, "percent_of_frame": 0.2, "percent_of_readable": null }, { "code": "NOT AUDITED", "count": 0, "percent_of_frame": 0, "percent_of_readable": null }, { "code": "OUT OF FRAME", "count": 0, "percent_of_frame": 0, "percent_of_readable": 0 }, { "code": "NOT OPERATING", "count": 2, "percent_of_frame": 0.4, "percent_of_readable": 0.4 } ], "tallies_by_type": [ { "agency_type": "Charter LEA", "code": "PROGRAM", "count": 4 }, { "agency_type": "Charter LEA", "code": "MENTION", "count": 16 }, { "agency_type": "Charter LEA", "code": "NONE FOUND", "count": 142 }, { "agency_type": "District (common, non-operating)", "code": "NOT OPERATING", "count": 2 }, { "agency_type": "Education district", "code": "PROGRAM", "count": 9 }, { "agency_type": "Education district", "code": "MENTION", "count": 1 }, { "agency_type": "Education district", "code": "NONE FOUND", "count": 2 }, { "agency_type": "Independent district", "code": "PROGRAM", "count": 30 }, { "agency_type": "Independent district", "code": "MENTION", "count": 100 }, { "agency_type": "Independent district", "code": "NONE FOUND", "count": 193 }, { "agency_type": "Integration district", "code": "NONE FOUND", "count": 1 }, { "agency_type": "Intermediate district", "code": "PROGRAM", "count": 4 }, { "agency_type": "Miscellaneous cooperative", "code": "PROGRAM", "count": 1 }, { "agency_type": "Miscellaneous cooperative", "code": "MENTION", "count": 1 }, { "agency_type": "Miscellaneous cooperative", "code": "NONE FOUND", "count": 1 }, { "agency_type": "Service cooperative", "code": "PROGRAM", "count": 4 }, { "agency_type": "Service cooperative", "code": "NONE FOUND", "count": 5 }, { "agency_type": "Special district", "code": "PROGRAM", "count": 1 }, { "agency_type": "Special district", "code": "MENTION", "count": 1 }, { "agency_type": "Special education cooperative", "code": "PROGRAM", "count": 11 }, { "agency_type": "Special education cooperative", "code": "MENTION", "count": 2 }, { "agency_type": "Special education cooperative", "code": "NONE FOUND", "count": 4 }, { "agency_type": "State agency (corrections)", "code": "NONE FOUND", "count": 1 }, { "agency_type": "State agency school", "code": "PROGRAM", "count": 1 }, { "agency_type": "State agency school", "code": "NONE FOUND", "count": 1 }, { "agency_type": "Vocational cooperative", "code": "NONE FOUND", "count": 2 }, { "agency_type": "Vocational cooperative", "code": "NOT VERIFIABLE", "count": 1 } ], "operator_silence": [ { "provider": "Minnesota State Academy for the Deaf (the state academy, named on a unit's own pages)", "provider_names_count": null, "agencies_naming_provider_count": 2, "affirmative_list": [ "0656-01 Faribault Public School District", "4103-07 Hmong College Prep Academy" ] }, { "provider": "Northeast Metro 916 (the metro intermediate district's DHH program)", "provider_names_count": null, "agencies_naming_provider_count": 0, "affirmative_list": [] }, { "provider": "Intermediate District 287 (the west metro intermediate district)", "provider_names_count": null, "agencies_naming_provider_count": 2, "affirmative_list": [ "0270-01 Hopkins Public School District", "0278-01 Orono Public School District" ] } ], "publication_against_identified_population": { "supported": false, "identified_population": { "value": 2552, "year": "SY 2024-25", "source_n": 15, "note": "Deaf and hard of hearing primary disability, statewide December 1, 2024 count; 2,623 on December 1, 2025 (carried beside, not substituted)" }, "published_programme_capacity": { "value": "Not computable at district level", "year": "SY 2024-25", "source_n": 13, "note": "Minnesota publishes the deaf and hard of hearing count at the state level and by region, not by district, so the identified students in units coded PROGRAM cannot be summed; no district capacity numerator exists" }, "note": "The measure is not supported in Minnesota: the state publishes no district-by-category count of identified deaf and hard of hearing students, so the share of the identified population in units that publish a program cannot be computed. The denominator (2,552 statewide on the 2024-25 baseline) is published; the numerator is not obtainable from public data as the state publishes it. This gap is itself a finding, and the Commission's own agenda names improved education data collection and child counts for all categorical disabilities. A records request for a district count by category is filed (RECORDS_REQUESTS)." }, "indicators": [ { "indicator": "Deaf/Hard of Hearing primary disability, statewide December 1 child count", "figure": { "value": 2552, "year": "SY 2024-25", "source_n": 15, "note": "December 1, 2024, sum of the age cells on the By Disability-Age sheet; equals the biennial report's 2,552. The December 1, 2025 count is 2,623 and sits beside the baseline (D-032), never in its place. The nine-year series is in IDENTIFIED_SERIES" } }, { "indicator": "Deaf-Blind primary disability, statewide December 1 child count", "figure": { "value": 125, "year": "SY 2024-25", "source_n": 15, "note": "December 1, 2024; the state's 125 primary deafblind matches v1.0; 135 on December 1, 2025" } }, { "indicator": "Deaf/Hard of Hearing enrollment, school-year series (biennial report)", "figure": { "value": 2545, "year": "SY 2016-17", "source_n": 13, "note": "The biennial report's page 24 school-year series begins at 2,545 (2016-17); Table 1 (page 23) is enrollment by region for 2024-25; there is no district count table in the report" } }, { "indicator": "Census funding factor, deaf and hard of hearing", "figure": { "value": "$19,200 times the December 1 child count", "year": "2025 statutes", "source_n": 5, "note": "125A.76 subd. 2a(iii), verbatim: \"$19,200 times the December 1 child count for the primary disability areas of deaf and hard-of-hearing and emotional or behavioral disorders\"; a weight inside the three-test computation of subd. 2a(1), not a payment per student; a House Research figure of 19,100 (November 2025 guide) is a recorded conflict" } }, { "indicator": "Census funding factor, deafblind", "figure": { "value": "$25,200 times the December 1 child count", "year": "2025 statutes", "source_n": 5, "note": "125A.76 subd. 2a(iv), deafblind" } }, { "indicator": "Statewide public school enrollment (context)", "figure": { "value": 870019, "year": "SY 2022-23", "source_n": 16, "note": "Minnesota public elementary and secondary enrollment, NCES fall 2022 (context for scale; the state's own current membership figure was not read to a figure this run)" } }, { "indicator": "Publication against identified population", "figure": { "value": "Not computable at district level", "year": "SY 2024-25", "source_n": 13, "note": "Minnesota publishes the December 1 count for the deaf and hard of hearing category at the state level and by region, not by district; no district-by-category count exists in the Data Center or the biennial report, so the share of identified students in units that publish a program cannot be computed. The measure is reported as unsupported (PUBLICATION_MEASURE), with a records request row" } }, { "indicator": "Coverage picture (this file's audit of the 541 units)", "figure": { "value": "PROGRAM 65 (43 on weak evidence); MENTION 121; NONE FOUND 352; NOT VERIFIABLE 1; NOT OPERATING 2", "year": "2026-09-28", "source_n": 30, "note": "Codes as set at the compiler review of 28 September 2026 over the closure probe captures of 25 September and the small-site sweep of 27 September (229 units read against their captured pages, sixteen of them re-read at their v1.0 source page and five at a site found or sought by search, as the second attempt under D-039 and D-040; the review record is in 04_Verification/review_2026-09-28). One PROGRAM (Northeast Metro 916, 0916-06) was found only after correcting a dead frame URL to 916schools.org; the two common districts are NOT OPERATING on the department's record (D-045)" } }, { "indicator": "Teachers of the deaf and hard of hearing in service, statewide", "figure": { "value": "231 teachers of DHH; 43 oral/aural teachers", "year": "2026 biennial report", "source_n": 13, "note": "The biennial report's workforce figures; they map to the two PELSB licenses at Minnesota Rules 8710.5200 and 8710.5250" } }, { "indicator": "In-state teacher preparation programs (DHH and BVI)", "figure": { "value": "No BVI program in Minnesota; only one or two DHH programs", "year": "2026", "source_n": 23, "note": "PELSB's preparation-programs page; the University of Minnesota offers the confirmed in-state DHH route (source 24)" } }, { "indicator": "Educational interpreter standard", "figure": { "value": "RID interpreter or transliterator certification, or the NAD general level certificate, or comparable state certification (or a certified deaf interpreter certification from RID)", "year": "2025 statutes", "source_n": 6, "note": "122A.31 subd. 1; Minnesota sets its educational interpreter standard in the education code" } }, { "indicator": "Minnesota State Academies bonding request (2026)", "figure": { "value": "$1.7 million from the bonding fund", "year": "2026", "source_n": 21, "note": "The Commission's 2026 Legislative Outcomes (Tier 2): campus repairs and accessibility; to be confirmed in the enacted 2026 bonding law" } }, { "indicator": "Placement criteria for Deaf and hard of hearing students (FRM-005 section 4)", "figure": { "value": "Not published", "year": "2026", "source_n": 13, "note": "No state document publishes criteria, a decision framework or comparative guidance for choosing between the Minnesota State Academy for the Deaf, a district or regional program and the charter school; placement at the academy runs through the resident district's IEP team under 125A.68" } } ], "identified_population_series": [ { "year": "SY 2017-18", "identified_hi": 2553, "identified_db": 103, "source_n": 15 }, { "year": "SY 2018-19", "identified_hi": 2544, "identified_db": 118, "source_n": 15 }, { "year": "SY 2019-20", "identified_hi": 2554, "identified_db": 126, "source_n": 15 }, { "year": "SY 2020-21", "identified_hi": 2517, "identified_db": 129, "source_n": 15 }, { "year": "SY 2021-22", "identified_hi": 2492, "identified_db": 124, "source_n": 15 }, { "year": "SY 2022-23", "identified_hi": 2470, "identified_db": 118, "source_n": 15 }, { "year": "SY 2023-24", "identified_hi": 2523, "identified_db": 124, "source_n": 15 }, { "year": "SY 2024-25", "identified_hi": 2552, "identified_db": 125, "source_n": 15 }, { "year": "SY 2025-26", "identified_hi": 2623, "identified_db": 135, "source_n": 15 } ], "fiscal": [ { "channel": "Named appropriation / budget line", "status": "populated", "amount": null, "fiscal_year": "biennial", "enacted_or_appropriated": "enacted", "instrument": "Minnesota State Academies biennial appropriation (the academies are \"funded primarily through a biennial appropriation rather than by the funding formula that is applied to other districts in the state\")", "citation": "State Academies capital report to the legislature (source 19); the exact biennial operating appropriation figure was not read to a number this run", "note": "The academies are a state agency funded by direct appropriation, not by the general education revenue formula. The operating appropriation amount by biennium is a gap this version does not fill (a records request row); the figure sits in the state biennial budget documents, not read to a number this run." }, { "channel": "General formula funding (general education revenue) reach to the state school", "status": "not applicable", "amount": null, "fiscal_year": "SY 2024-25", "enacted_or_appropriated": "not stated", "instrument": "Minnesota general education revenue (chapter 126C); the academies sit outside it", "citation": "State Academies capital report (source 19): the academies are funded by biennial appropriation \"rather than by the funding formula that is applied to other districts\"", "note": "The academies do not draw the district general education revenue formula; districts draw it and the census-count special education aid in addition." }, { "channel": "Special education funding mechanism", "status": "populated", "amount": null, "fiscal_year": "2025 statutes", "enacted_or_appropriated": "enacted", "instrument": "Census-based special education aid: a fixed dollar factor times the December 1 child count by primary disability area (125A.76 subd. 2a)", "citation": "125A.76 subd. 2a(iii), verbatim: \"$19,200 times the December 1 child count for the primary disability areas of deaf and hard-of-hearing and emotional or behavioral disorders\"; subd. 2a(iv): \"$25,200\" for deafblind (source 5)", "note": "Minnesota funds special education partly by a census model that assigns each disability area a dollar factor times its December 1 child count. Deaf and hard of hearing carries $19,200 per child; deafblind carries $25,200, the higher of the low-incidence factors. The factor is a weight inside the census computation of subdivision 2a, clause (1): 56 percent of that product, times the program growth factor, is one of three tests, and it sets a district's initial aid only when it is the least of them; the statute pays no set amount per student (the publisher's own correction of 24 October 2026, before release). A House Research figure of 19,100 (November 2025 guide) is a recorded conflict against the served statute text of 19,200. This is the load-bearing Minnesota-specific fiscal instrument for the category; the deaf and hard of hearing share of total special education aid is not published as a separate line.", "series": [ { "fiscal_year": "2025 statutes", "amount": 19200, "basis": "per December 1 DHH child count (125A.76 subd. 2a(iii))" }, { "fiscal_year": "2025 statutes", "amount": 25200, "basis": "per December 1 deafblind child count (125A.76 subd. 2a(iv))" } ] }, { "channel": "High-cost / catastrophic aid", "status": "not published", "amount": null, "fiscal_year": "n/a", "enacted_or_appropriated": "not stated", "instrument": "Minnesota special education excess cost aid (chapter 125A) searched", "citation": "Chapter 125A special education aid provisions (source 1)", "note": "Minnesota's special education aid includes an excess cost component in statute; its amount for the deaf and hard of hearing category is not published separately. What would close the gap: the MDE special education funding reference guide's excess-cost tables read to figures, not read this run." }, { "channel": "Federal flow-through", "status": "not published", "amount": null, "fiscal_year": "n/a", "enacted_or_appropriated": "not stated", "instrument": "IDEA Part B flow-through to Minnesota and the state-level set-aside", "citation": "Not read to figures this run", "note": "Minnesota's IDEA Part B allocation and the state-level set-aside that funds the low incidence projects were not read to a number this run; a gap (records request row)." }, { "channel": "Interagency, tuition, and residential mechanics", "status": "populated", "amount": null, "fiscal_year": "2025 statutes", "enacted_or_appropriated": "not stated", "instrument": "125A.68 (academy enrollment through the resident district's IEP team); the academies' residential service", "citation": "125A.68 (source 4), cited on the academy's enrollment page for placement procedures", "note": "Placement at the academies runs through the resident district's IEP team under 125A.68, at no charge to families; the residential and transport costs sit in the academies' appropriation. No inter-district tuition mechanism to the academies was read to a figure this run." }, { "channel": "The market layer", "status": "not published", "amount": null, "fiscal_year": "2026", "enacted_or_appropriated": "not stated", "instrument": "Private-placement or scholarship instruments touching deaf education", "citation": "Not established this run", "note": "No Minnesota voucher, education savings account or tax-credit scholarship instrument touching deaf education was established from the pages read this run. Metro Deaf School is a public charter, not a private-placement instrument. Whether the federal scholarship tax credit (26 U.S.C. 25F) reaches Minnesota was not read this run; a gap." }, { "channel": "Capital", "status": "populated", "amount": 1700000, "fiscal_year": "2026", "enacted_or_appropriated": "not stated", "instrument": "Minnesota State Academies 2026 bonding request", "citation": "The Commission's 2026 Legislative Outcomes (Tier 2), \"Minnesota State Academies bonding requests $1.7 million from the bonding fund\" for campus repairs and accessibility (source 21); the State Academies capital report (source 19) is the underlying request; the enacted 2026 bonding law was not read to confirm the appropriation this run", "note": "The academies' capital comes through state bonding; the 2026 request named by the Commission is $1.7 million for campus repairs and accessibility. Whether the 2026 bonding law enacted it is a confirmation item (a records request row).", "series": [ { "fiscal_year": "2026", "amount": 1700000, "basis": "bonding request for campus repairs and accessibility (Commission's 2026 outcomes)" } ] }, { "channel": "Oversight trail (FRM-003 section 4)", "status": "populated", "amount": null, "fiscal_year": "2024", "enacted_or_appropriated": "not stated", "instrument": "Office of the Legislative Auditor, Financial Audit Division, Minnesota State Academies audits", "citation": "OLA Financial Audit Division reports list (source 12): \"Minnesota State Academies - for the Deaf and the Blind: 2024; 2013; 2008; 2005; 2001\"", "note": "The academies were audited by the OLA in 2024 and earlier; the chronological list and the Performance Audit Updates page carry no later academies entry. A management response to the 2024 audit sits in the board minutes, which are behind a login on the pages read (a records request row)." } ], "workforce": [ { "item": "Educational interpreter qualification required in K-12", "status": "published", "figure": { "value": "Certification by the Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf (RID), or the National Association of the Deaf (NAD) general level certificate, or comparable state certification, or a certified deaf interpreter certification from RID", "year": "2025 statutes", "source_n": 6, "note": "Minnesota Statutes 122A.31 subd. 1; Minnesota sets its educational interpreter standard in the education code. The full text of the standard, including any assessment alternative, is in the served statute (source 6)." } }, { "item": "Interpreter training programs in the state", "status": "not published", "figure": { "value": null, "year": "2026", "source_n": 23, "note": "Minnesota interpreter training institutions were not read to a list this run; a gap. PELSB's preparation-programs page addresses teacher licensure, not interpreter training." } }, { "item": "Teacher of the deaf and hard of hearing credential", "status": "published", "figure": { "value": "Minnesota Rules 8710.5200, Teachers of Special Education: Deaf or Hard of Hearing, birth through age 21; ASL proficiency at SLPI Intermediate-Plus (subpart 2 item E); and 8710.5250, Oral/Aural Deaf Education, birth through grade 12", "year": "2026", "source_n": 9, "note": "Also source 10 (8710.5250). The DHH license requires ASL proficiency; the oral/aural license requires the DHH requirements plus six ASL credits or survival-level SLPI." } }, { "item": "Teacher of the deaf preparation programs in the state", "status": "published", "figure": { "value": "One to two programs (PELSB); the University of Minnesota offers the confirmed in-state route, a MEd with the Minnesota B-12 Deaf or Hard of Hearing license", "year": "2026", "source_n": 23, "note": "Also source 24. PELSB: \"there are no teacher preparation programs leading to teacher licensure in Blind or Visually Impaired (BVI) in Minnesota... only one or two programs in other licensure areas (Technology and Deaf, Hard of Hearing).\"" } }, { "item": "Teacher of the deaf supply as the state publishes it", "status": "published", "figure": { "value": "231 teachers of the deaf and hard of hearing; 43 oral/aural teachers, in service statewide", "year": "2026 biennial report", "source_n": 13, "note": "The biennial Students Who Are Deaf or Hard of Hearing Report to the Legislature; the figures map to the two licenses (8710.5200 and 8710.5250)." } }, { "item": "Shortage designation (federal teacher shortage area list; state list)", "status": "not published", "figure": { "value": null, "year": "2026-27", "source_n": 23, "note": "The federal Teacher Shortage Area listing for Minnesota was not read to a figure this run; a gap. Minnesota's DHH teacher supply is characterized by the biennial report and PELSB's one-or-two-programs statement." } }, { "item": "Paraprofessional standard for DHH settings", "status": "not published", "figure": { "value": null, "year": "2026", "source_n": 22, "note": "The low incidence layer names signing education assistant services (for example at Northeast Metro 916); a statewide paraprofessional standard specific to DHH settings was not read this run." } }, { "item": "DeafBlind intervener standard and training", "status": "published", "figure": { "value": "The Minnesota DeafBlind Project provides intervener training and technical assistance, birth to 21, in the low incidence structure", "year": "2026", "source_n": 26, "note": "Also source 22. A distinct state intervener credential in rule was not read; the project is the state's named training route." } }, { "item": "Educational audiologist standard", "status": "published", "figure": { "value": "The Minnesota Low Incidence Projects maintain an educational audiologists network and roster (the audiologist directory held, about 21,000 characters)", "year": "2025", "source_n": 22, "note": "A distinct educational audiologist license in the 8710 chapter was not read to a citation this run; the roster is the published network." } }, { "item": "Teachers of the deaf license basis (ASL proficiency)", "status": "published", "figure": { "value": "SLPI (Sign Language Proficiency Interview) Intermediate-Plus for the DHH license", "year": "2026", "source_n": 9, "note": "Minnesota Rules 8710.5200 subpart 2 item E; PELSB's 2020.12 resolution addresses ASL proficiency assessment (ASLPI)." } }, { "item": "Special education teachers statewide (IDEA 618 Part B personnel table)", "status": "not published", "figure": { "value": null, "year": "SY 2024-25", "source_n": 30, "note": "The Minnesota IDEA Section 618 Part B personnel FTE (special education teachers, paraprofessionals, interpreters, audiologists) were not read to figures this run; a gap (records request row)." } } ], "schools_programs_directory": [ { "id": "MN-001", "entity_name": "Minnesota State Academy for the Deaf (MSAD)", "entity_type": "State school", "operating_authority": "State of Minnesota; the Minnesota State Academies (MSAD and the Minnesota State Academy for the Blind) are a state agency governed by a board appointed by the governor under Minnesota Statutes 125A.62 to 125A.63; the resident agency at Faribault", "city": "Faribault", "county": "Rice", "educational_setting": "Separate public day and residential school; one of two campuses in Faribault" }, { "id": "MN-002", "entity_name": "Minnesota State Academy for the Blind (MSAB)", "entity_type": "Marked for exclusion (blind counterpart institution)", "operating_authority": "Same as MSAD: the Minnesota State Academies, one state agency and one governing board under 125A.62 to 125A.63", "city": "Faribault", "county": "Rice", "educational_setting": "Separate day and residential school; the second of the two Faribault campuses" }, { "id": "MN-003", "entity_name": "Minnesota State Academies Board", "entity_type": "State coordinating body (governing board)", "operating_authority": "Appointed by the governor with the advice and consent of the Senate", "city": "Faribault", "county": "Rice", "educational_setting": "Governs the Minnesota State Academies; \"seven voting members\", meets monthly" }, { "id": "MN-004", "entity_name": "Metro Deaf School (MDS)", "entity_type": "Charter school (eligible special education charter)", "operating_authority": "Public charter school; authorizer the University of St. Thomas (the school's About Us page); a Minnesota public special education charter school", "city": "St. Paul", "county": "Ramsey", "educational_setting": "Public special education charter school for Deaf, DeafBlind and hard of hearing students; a signing school with a birth-to-three program" }, { "id": "MN-005", "entity_name": "Minnesota Department of Education, Division of Special Education, Workforce and Low Incidence Disabilities", "entity_type": "Operating division", "operating_authority": "Minnesota Department of Education", "city": "Roseville", "county": "Ramsey", "educational_setting": "The department's home for Deaf and hard of hearing categorical policy, the biennial Report to the Legislature, the low incidence funding and the regional low incidence projects" }, { "id": "MN-006", "entity_name": "Minnesota Commission of the Deaf, DeafBlind and Hard of Hearing (MNCDHH)", "entity_type": "State coordinating body", "operating_authority": "State commission (Minnesota Statutes chapter 256C)", "city": "St. Paul", "county": "Ramsey", "educational_setting": "Advisory to state government on Deaf, DeafBlind and hard of hearing policy; runs the Deaf Mentor Family Program; publishes an annual Public Policy Agenda" }, { "id": "MN-007", "entity_name": "Deaf and Hard of Hearing Services Division (DHHSD), Minnesota Department of Human Services", "entity_type": "State coordinating body (human services, all ages)", "operating_authority": "Minnesota Department of Human Services", "city": "St. Paul", "county": "Ramsey", "educational_setting": "Not an education operating role: DHHSD provides access services, information and referral, and regional support for Deaf, DeafBlind and hard of hearing Minnesotans across the lifespan" }, { "id": "MN-008", "entity_name": "Regional Low Incidence Projects (eleven regions)", "entity_type": "Regional or cooperative program (class row; the hosting bodies are also District Coverage rows)", "operating_authority": "The Minnesota Department of Education Workforce and Low Incidence Disabilities unit, delivered through regional facilitators hosted by service cooperatives, education districts and intermediate districts", "city": "Eleven regions statewide", "county": "various", "educational_setting": "Regional technical assistance and facilitation for low incidence disabilities, including Deaf and hard of hearing and DeafBlind; a Deaf Mentor and DeafBlind layer" }, { "id": "MN-009", "entity_name": "Professional Educator Licensing and Standards Board (PELSB), Deaf/Hard of Hearing teacher license", "entity_type": "Standards or licensing body", "operating_authority": "Professional Educator Licensing and Standards Board", "city": "Roseville", "county": "Ramsey", "educational_setting": "Issues the Minnesota teaching license in Deaf or Hard of Hearing (birth through age 21) and in Oral/Aural Deaf Education" }, { "id": "MN-010", "entity_name": "University of Minnesota, Deaf/Hard of Hearing teacher preparation program", "entity_type": "Preparation program (teacher of the deaf)", "operating_authority": "University of Minnesota, College of Education and Human Development, Department of Educational Psychology", "city": "Minneapolis", "county": "Hennepin", "educational_setting": "A Master of Education (MEd) with the Minnesota B-12 Deaf or Hard of Hearing teaching license" }, { "id": "MN-011", "entity_name": "Minnesota DeafBlind Project", "entity_type": "DeafBlind project", "operating_authority": "Federal OSEP deafblind technical assistance grant; hosted in the Minnesota low incidence regional structure", "city": "Statewide", "county": "various", "educational_setting": "Technical assistance, training and family support for children who are DeafBlind; a state deafblind child count is maintained for the federal count" }, { "id": "MN-012", "entity_name": "Minnesota Early Hearing Detection and Intervention (EHDI) / Newborn Hearing Screening", "entity_type": "Newborn hearing screening system", "operating_authority": "Minnesota Department of Health (with the education-side EHDI outreach in the low incidence projects)", "city": "St. Paul", "county": "Ramsey", "educational_setting": "Universal newborn hearing screening and the 1-3-6 timeline (screen, diagnose, enroll in early intervention)" }, { "id": "MN-013", "entity_name": "Special education cooperatives, education districts and intermediate districts (the regional layer)", "entity_type": "Regional or cooperative program (class row; each unit is also a District Coverage row)", "operating_authority": "Member-district cooperatives, education districts, intermediate districts and service cooperatives", "city": "Statewide (each on its own coverage row)", "county": "various", "educational_setting": "Regional special education delivery and support; the layer through which many Minnesota districts run their Deaf and hard of hearing services" } ], "disclosure": { "relationships": [ { "body": "Minnesota Commission of the Deaf, DeafBlind and Hard of Hearing", "relationship": "prospect contacted", "since": "2026-09-24" }, { "body": "Minnesota State Academies (the Minnesota State Academy for the Deaf and its governing board)", "relationship": "prospect contacted", "since": "2026-10-24" }, { "body": "Minnesota Department of Education, Division of Special Education", "relationship": "other", "since": "2026-10-24" }, { "body": "Professional Educator Licensing and Standards Board", "relationship": "other", "since": "2026-10-24" }, { "body": "Metro Deaf School", "relationship": "other", "since": "2026-10-24" } ], "statement": "No client, licensee, State Partner or funder relationship exists between the publisher (Novara Consulting Group LLC) and any body named in this file, and none of the bodies named has commissioned, funded or reviewed it. The Index does not rank states, grade agencies or recommend policy. Contacts disclosed under GOV-004 Rule 3 and D-078, none of them a conflict of interest of any person under D-076: the co-founder Heather M. Grizzle has corresponded with the Minnesota Commission of the Deaf, DeafBlind and Hard of Hearing since 24 September 2026 about the Minnesota file and the Commission's data needs (a meeting is set for 12 November 2026), the Commission being a prospect contacted; after the correction window closed on 23 October 2026 she wrote, on 24 and 25 October 2026 with copies to the notice mailbox, to the Department of Education (the questions behind the district count and a summary data request under Minnesota Statutes 13.05 subd. 7), to the Licensing and Standards Board (the preparation-programs statement and a summary data request), to the Commission (its child count agenda and a summary data request), to Metro Deaf School and its board (the charter contract term on its site), and to the State Academies' superintendent and board (the Academy's own enrollment and appropriation, a data request under 13.03, and the offer of the free public-purpose extract of FEE-001 section 4a for the Academies' budget request), the Academies being a prospect contacted; no fee was offered or asked, and no sales contact was made while the window was open. Under GOV-004 Rule 4 and D-078 item (4) the findings those contacts bear on (the Academies' combined enrollment figure, the Metro Deaf School charter term, the Board's programs statement, the Department's unpublished district count and the Commission's quotations) receive the arm's-length review of the co-founder who made no contact, Ryan P. Odland, recorded in the verification trail. No party had editorial input. Declared by the program lead under GOV-004; the program lead confirms this statement at release.", "compiled": "2026-10-29" }, "notice": { "applies": true, "recipients": [ { "body": "Minnesota Department of Education, Division of Special Education (the Deaf and Hard of Hearing categorical program)", "route_used": "the Deaf and Hard of Hearing specialist's state address, supplied by the owner on 8 October 2026 because education.mn.gov refused the compiler's reads" }, { "body": "Minnesota State Academies (the Minnesota State Academy for the Deaf and its governing board)", "route_used": "published contact route on msa.state.mn.us" }, { "body": "Metro Deaf School", "route_used": "published contact route on mdsmn.org" }, { "body": "Minnesota Commission of the Deaf, DeafBlind and Hard of Hearing", "route_used": "published general contact route on mn.gov/deaf-commission" }, { "body": "Professional Educator Licensing and Standards Board", "route_used": "published general contact route on mn.gov/pelsb" } ], "sent": "2026-10-08", "window_closed": "2026-10-23", "responses": [ { "body": "Minnesota Commission of the Deaf, DeafBlind and Hard of Hearing", "received": "2026-10-26", "summary": "Received after the window closed (23 October 2026; D-067). The Commission's Government Relations Director, 26 October 2026, 15:27 Central, replying to the publisher's letter of 24 October (the district-level child count the Commission's 2026 agenda asks for; a summary data request on the Deaf Mentor Family Program; the $1.7 million bonding citation): a meeting with the publisher is already scheduled for 12 November 2026 to review the questions. No correction, no published document and no figure is offered. Decision: No change: the reply offers no published document and no correction. What the meeting of 12 November 2026 produces is taken up at the next version under STD-005 section 7; the summary data request is carried in RECORDS_REQUESTS. The Commission is also a prospect contacted, disclosed under GOV-004 Rule 3 and D-078 in the file's disclosure block.", "changes": [], "text": "Hello Heather, we already had a meeting scheduled with you and Ryan on Nov 12 to review your questions. Does that timeline not work for you?\n\nAlicia\n\n--\nAlicia Lane | Government Relations Director\nMinnesota Commission of the Deaf, DeafBlind & Hard of Hearing\nPronouns: she/her/hers\nO: 651-212-5800 (voice or vp)" }, { "body": "Professional Educator Licensing and Standards Board", "received": "2026-10-26", "summary": "Received after the window closed (23 October 2026; D-067). The Board's data request office, 26 October 2026, 09:04 Central, replying to the publisher's letter of 24 October: the summary data request (active licenses under Minnesota Rules 8710.5200 and 8710.5250 in 2024-25 and the out-of-field or Tier 1 and Tier 2 assignments) is received and in the queue, with the data expected by 6 November 2026; the Board asks which address and date the notice went to (answered: pelsb@state.mn.us, 8 October 2026, 11:43 pm Central, with the review page link); and states that its preparation-programs page's \"only one or two programs\" sentence \"was referring to licensure areas of technology and DHH\", that it understands the concern about the connotation, and that it will bring it to the appropriate person's attention. No published document is identified. Decision: No change at this version: the reply identifies no published document and the window had closed; the file's quotation of the Board's page stands as published. The clarification and the data the Board expects to supply by 6 November 2026 are taken up at the next version under STD-005 section 7, and the summary data request is carried in RECORDS_REQUESTS.", "changes": [], "text": "Heather,\n\nI have received your request, and it is in the queue of data requests. I am responding to let you know this was received and have a question.\n\nCan you tell me what email address you at sent the original notice and what the date was? Also, if you have the email address from which it was sent. As a state agency, we have many email addresses that this type of information could have been sent to, and it is possible it ended up with the wrong department who may have misunderstood what it was. I have checked the data request archive and do not see anything, but I may have missed it, or it may have gone to someone who thought it was spam.\n\nI am looking into the webpage you indicated and while the statement was referring to licensure areas of technology and DHH, I do understand your concern about the connotation of the statement, and I will bring this to the appropriate person’s attention.\n\nBarring any urgent events occurring, I should be able to have your requested data by November 6, if not sooner.\n\nPilamayaye | Miigwech | Thank You\n\nKatherine “Kat” Anthony-Wigle\nOglala Lakota, She/Her\n\nData and Policy Specialist\nDataRequest.PELSB@state.mn.us\n\nMinnesota Professional Licensing and Standards Board\n1021 Bandana Blvd East, Suite 222, Saint Paul, MN 55108\npelsb@state.mn.us\n\nThis email response is information, like a telephone call, and is meant to be advisory only and does not represent a written, official position of the Minnesota Professional Licensing and Standards Board. This message is intended only for the use of the individual or entity to which it is addressed and may contain information that is confidential. If the reader of the message is not the intended recipient or the employee or agent responsible for delivering the message to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, disruption, or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you received this communication in error, please immediately notify the sender and then delete the communication from your electronic mail system. Thank-you." } ], "reason": "Notice under STD-005 as D-044 scopes it for a v2.0 rebuild: the Department of Education in every case; the State Academies as the state school with its governing board; Metro Deaf School as the Deaf charter the file documents; the Commission as the coordinating body; the Licensing and Standards Board as the body whose published statement the file quotes. The local education agencies named are served by the standing correction route. Sent by a person from notice@ndedi.org on 8 October 2026 (Central); window of ten business days closed 23 October 2026; no response in the window; two replies after it, filed under D-067, each with no change." }, "contact_of_record": { "mailbox": "notice@ndedi.org", "postal": "Novara Consulting Group LLC, 18140 Zane St NW #159, Elk River, MN 55330" }, "changelog": [ { "version": "1.0", "date": "2026-09-02", "change": "First release: narrative, workbook (seven sheets including Fiscal), verification trail, prompt as issued, evidence source record, URL manifest (576 rows), evidence captures, and verification scripts with the release reconciliation output (173 checks, all pass). Frame of 530 units coded 37 PROGRAM, 73 MENTION, 415 NONE FOUND, 3 NOT VERIFIABLE, 2 NOT OPERATING (D-010), zero NOT AUDITED. Headline findings: the series' third institutional form, a freestanding nine-member governor-appointed Board of the Minnesota State Academies with a direct general-fund line (17,838,000 dollars, FY2026) and an OLA November 2024 finding that the academies generally did not comply with finance-related legal requirements; a larger deaf charter rival (Metro Deaf School, 181 enrolled, against MSAD's 85 to 88), both reported as districts in the biennial DHH report; a categorical publishing state (2,552 DHH children ages 0-22 on the 2024-25 count; 231 teachers of the deaf and hard of hearing) that declined LEAD-K on the stated ground that it already has equivalent law; money follows the pupil to Faribault by formula, with a deaf-specific special-education census factor (19,200 dollars per DHH child, 25,200 for deafblind) and a parent trial-placement route (125A.69 subd. 1(c)); cooperative concentration (25 of 38 cooperative-type units PROGRAM against 9 of 327 districts and 2 of 162 charters); Part C moved to the new Department of Children, Youth, and Families; operator silence near-total.", "cause": "first release" }, { "version": "2.0", "date": "2026-09-28", "change": "Re-audit at SY 2025 (School Year 2024 - 2025) (the December 1, 2024 count; December 1, 2025 beside it) under the third-generation prompt. The frame moved from 530 to 541 units, built from the MDE-ORG exports retrieved under D-050 on 24 September 2026 (522 units, as v1.0) with v1.0's eight additions, the seven 123A.21 service cooperatives, two vocational cooperatives and two units on the department's contact list only; twenty entries outside the frame, reasons recorded. Every unit read by a fetch fleet on 24 September, in the browser with the closure probe on 25 and 26 September, on a small-site sweep on 27 September and at the review of 28 September 2026 (229 units read against their captures; sixteen re-read at the v1.0 page, five sought by search under D-039 and D-040); coded 65 PROGRAM (43 on the weak-evidence flag), 121 MENTION, 352 NONE FOUND, 1 NOT VERIFIABLE, 2 NOT OPERATING (the common districts, under D-045), zero NOT AUDITED. Against v1.0: 112 rows change code and 429 hold, 93 up (three from NOT VERIFIABLE) and 8 down, each named in the trail, eleven rows new; the publication measure not computable (no district count by category is published). New in this version: the nine-year identified series to December 2025, the census funding factors at the served statute with the House Research conflict, the academies' capital report and 2026 bonding, the interpreter standard, the two teacher licenses, the workforce block, the FRM-003 channels, the operator map of the low incidence layer, the plain-language summary, the per-row collection and the D-043 route fields; 31 sources with 13 archive snapshots; the release package (schema 1.3), the report and the evidence supplement. Corrected 24 October 2026 by the publisher: the $19,200 census factor is a weight inside the three-test computation of 125A.76 subd. 2a(1), not a set amount per student; summary, narrative and notes reworded, no figure changed; two replies after the window (Board, Commission), no change.", "cause": "re-audit" } ], "checks": { "release_checklist_version": "1.4", "passed": true, "run_date": "2026-10-30", "reconciliation_output_file": "23_Minnesota_reconciliation_output_2026-10-30.txt", "em_dash_count": 0, "ledger_run_ids": [ "R-2026-09-13-07", "R-2026-09-24-01", "R-2026-09-24-02", "R-2026-09-28-05", "R-2026-09-28-06", "R-2026-09-28-11", "R-2026-09-28-12" ], "custody": { "evidence_manifest_files": 2694, "evidence_manifest_check": "pass", "archive_snapshot_found": 43, "archive_no_snapshot": 19, "archive_lookup_failed": 0 }, "report_checks_file": "23_Minnesota_report_checks_2026-10-29.txt", "uk_spelling_count": 0 }, "deposit": { "repository": "zenodo", "doi": "10.5281/zenodo.23253516", 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"2026-09-24", "retrieval_method": "same-origin fetch in browser" }, { "n": 4, "title": "Minnesota Statutes 125A.68 (enrollment and placement at the academies)", "url": "https://www.revisor.mn.gov/statutes/cite/125A.68", "access_date": "2026-09-24", "retrieval_method": "same-origin fetch in browser" }, { "n": 5, "title": "Minnesota Statutes 125A.76 (special education aid; subd. 2a census funding factors $19,200 and $25,200; subd. 2f amended 2026 c 88 art 1 s 32, homeless pupil aid)", "url": "https://www.revisor.mn.gov/statutes/cite/125A.76", "access_date": "2026-09-24", "retrieval_method": "same-origin fetch in browser; text held as 23_MinnStat_125A.76_TEXT_2026-09-24" }, { "n": 6, "title": "Minnesota Statutes 122A.31 (American sign language/English interpreters; educational interpreter standard)", "url": "https://www.revisor.mn.gov/statutes/cite/122A.31", "access_date": "2026-09-27", "retrieval_method": "WebFetch" }, { "n": 7, "title": "Minnesota Statutes 124E.21 (charter schools; 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