The Minnesota Act to Leave No Child Behind
Ensuring That Every Child in Minnesota Has:
A Healthy Start — A Head Start — A Safe Start — A Fair Start
A Healthy Start
Development of an asthma surveillance system.
Providing a child in Medical Assistance (MA) 12 months of continuous coverage.
Hold health plans accountable for providing health services for children through the Child and Teen Check-Up (Passed into law, 2002 Session)
Develop a sliding fee schedule to lower premium costs for children in Minnesota Care program and providing continuous health care coverage for adults on public assistance (Passed into law, 2002 Session)
A Head Start
Making policy changes to At-Home-Infant Care program within the Basic Sliding Fee Child Care program to ensure that more access by working families (Passed into law, 2002 Session)
Fund and create TEACH program to provide wage subsidies and scholarships for child care workers help resolve the staffing crisis.
Provide more families with child care assistance through the basic sliding fee program.
A Safe Start
Increase permanence for abused and neglected children by equalizing assistance payments for adoptive, relative care and foster parents.
Reduce the number of homeless children and families by increasing funds to the state's homeless prevention grant program.
Continue assistance to children in families on public assistance hitting the welfare time-limits.
A Fair Start
Increase the Minimum Wage to $7.00
Target tax relief to families with children by adopting a $60 child tax credit.
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