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Partnership Priorities

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MNP20 is focused on a variety of key initiatives to meet its mission. In 2025, these priorities include:

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Committees

Major priorities of the partnership are managed by committees, made up of MNP20 members and additional invested parties. Committees 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 of the partnership are Data Use and Capacity and Financial Aid and Literacy.

Data Use and Capacity

The Data Use and Capacity priority is focused on the following efforts:

Data analysis: The committee is a resource for MNP20 policy and project committees that are analyzing data in their work, providing expert insights and feedback on the data analysis that these committees are conducting. The data committee also has, for larger projects, primary responsibility for gathering, reviewing, and providing analysis of data.
Identifying trends: The committee shares observations, insights, and recommendations about data findings and trends that would benefit from further analysis, action, and/or prioritization by MNP20.
Championing data use: The committee is an advocate for the growth of data-informed practice in MNP20’s work and across member organizations, and for strategizing ways to expand our capacity to engage with data across the state.
Statewide data strategy: The committee has the ability to make ongoing recommendations to MNP20—and its member organizations—to strengthen Minnesota’s research and action strategy. In addition, the committee may provide recommendations and strategies for continuing to strengthen Minnesota’s strong and effective data privacy practices.

Financial Aid and Literacy

The Financial Aid and Literacy priority is focused on the following efforts:

Identifying opportunities in policy and practice to reduce affordability barriers and access barriers to college for all students
Increasing student and family understanding of available support to pay for postsecondary education
Bolstering advising support for low-income students and families to build awareness of postsecondary pathway options and the myriad of ways to afford them
Routinely gathering leaders and practitioners to jointly identify opportunities to strengthen financial access and supports for all of Minnesota's students and families

In 2025 this committee is 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 late 2025 for discussion and further action.

Strategic Planning

In 2025, the partnership will launch a strategic planning process to set our priorities for the coming three to four years. The planning process will be broadly inclusive, and will be built upon the mission, vision, and commitments that were developed by the partnership in 2024. The strategic plan will identify specific strategies and activities that we will focus on over the next several years.

Ongoing Efforts

The partnership continues our engagement across a variety of standing projects which include:

Developing a statewide vision for dual enrollment as part of the College in High School Alliance's "Next Phase of Dual Enrollment Policy Cohort"
Engagement in efforts to grow and sustain our state's educator workforce, in partnership with the Governor's Workforce Development Board
Gathering input on our draft credentials of value framework and identifying opportunities for potential implementation
Supporting work related to career pathways for learners of all ages
Continuing to foster connections, collaborations, and convenings across the educational ecosystem
Supporting capacity-building for the incubation, acceleration, and amplification of innovative ideas and initiatives

Equity Principles

In addition to these priorities, since 2020 MNP20 has employed a set of equity principles that also provide critical context for our work:

We commit to approaching our work from an equity, anti-racism, and unity lens.
We recognize that we cannot achieve our goals without directly addressing systemic racism, oppression, and economic and educational inequities within our spheres of influence and impact, and we are committed to doing so.
We will strive for educational equity (not equality), which means that we will meet learners and communities where they are and provide what they need to succeed and meet their goals.
We commit to actively engaging with data and those whom it represents, and to safeguarding that data to ensure its ethical use.
We commit to bringing the resources of our organizations to this work, leveraging resources across sectors and organizations.

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