MNP20 is focused on a variety of key initiatives to meet its mission. High-level priorities are set through the partnership's strategic plan, and specific activities are adopted on a year-to-year basis.
Major priorities of the partnership are managed by committees and task forces, made up of MNP20 members and additional invested parties. Committees and task forces are focused on issues of policy and/or practice, and generally their work takes place over the course of a year or more. Current committees and task forces are:
In collaboration with the Governor's Workforce Development Board (GWDB) and the Interagency Workforce Alignment Task Force (IWA), MNP20 is co-facilitating a joint task force to identify opportunities to strengthen Minnesota's educator workforce. With partners at the table from state agencies, early childhood education, K-12 education, higher education, and workforce development, the task force will bring recommendations forward for consideration by GWDB, IWA, and MNP20.
The Financial Aid and Literacy committee has been focused for several years on identifying opportunities in policy and practice to reduce affordability barriers and access barriers to college for all students. This committee is currently focused on conducting a landscape analysis of current statewide efforts to increase FAFSA completion. This work will result in a summary document to be presented to the partnership in fall 2026 for discussion and further action.
The Integrated Data Use and Capacity committee is long-term, standing committee of the partnership. The committee is focused on increasing the state's ability to integrate educational data across the P-20 spectrum and to collaboratively drive action from that data. The committee's specific areas of responsibility include:
MNP20 is leading the state's participation in the College in High School Alliance's "Next Phase of Dual Enrollment Policy" cohort. This effort will result in recommendations to the partnership that will include a proposed statewide vision for dual enrollment, proposals to strengthen the intentionality of students' dual enrollment experiences, and proposals for increasing dual enrollment access and success for rural students and BIPOC students. A final report of the committee is expected to be published by the end of 2026.
In fall 2026 the partnership will complete a new strategic plan to guide it's work over the next five years. The planning process was designed to be broadly inclusive, and was built upon the mission, vision, and commitments that were developed by the partnership in 2024. The strategic plan, which will be publicly available upon its completion, will identify specific strategies and activities that the partnership will undertake to continue movement towards our goals. The strategic planning process is being led by MNP20's leadership team and strategic planning consultants from The Improve Group. The work is being further informed by the MNP20 Executive Committee, a task force of MNP20 members, and extensive stakeholder and benchmarking data that has been collected as part of the process.
The partnership continues our engagement across a variety of additional projects across Minnesota's educational ecosystem. These include:
In addition to these priorities, since 2020 MNP20 has employed a set of equity principles that also provide critical context for our work:
