The Minnesota Department of Education (MDE) ensures educational equity for multilingual learners through supporting school districts and charter schools to develop, implement and evaluate research-based language instruction educational programs (LIEPs) so that multilingual learners, including students with English learner (EL) status, attain academic language proficiency and achieve state academic content standards. This report provides information using the previous year's data on funding available for ELs, EL demographics and achievement. It includes statutory and regulatory references pertaining to English learners and describes MDE's support of local education agencies (LEAs) in implementing effective LIEPs to ensure ELs are able to reach their full academic potential.