Privacy Statement
Privacy Statement
The data you furnish on and with the Application for Minnesota Education License will be used by the Minnesota Department of Education and the Minnesota Board of Teaching (licensing authority) to assess the applicant’s qualifications for licensure. You are not legally required to provide this data; however, if you fail to do so, the agencies may be unable to process the license application for which the data is required. Until licensure is granted, the information in the application is private data, accessible only to you, the Minnesota Department of Education and the Minnesota Board of Teaching, its agents, and/or agents of the Attorney General’s Office representing the Minnesota Department of Education and the Minnesota Board of Teaching. This file becomes public record if licensure is granted, except that your social security number and home address remain private, subject to disclosure requirements as follows:
Social Security Number Information - Pursuant to Minnesota Statute 270.72 Tax Clearance: Issuance of Licenses, the licensing authority is required to provide to the Minnesota Commissioner of Revenue your social security number. This information may be used to deny the issuance, renewal or transfer of your license in the event you owe the Minnesota Department of Revenue delinquent taxes, penalties or interest. Upon receiving the information, the licensing authority will supply it only to the Minnesota Department of Revenue; however, under the Federal Exchange of Information Agreement, the Department of Revenue may supply this information to the Internal Revenue Service. Failure to supply this information may jeopardize or delay the processing of your licensing issuance or renewal application.
In conjunction with required data reporting from Minnesota public school districts, the licensing authority will only use private or confidential data for purposes of confirming unique identity. Persons having access to the data at the Minnesota Department of Education are only those working directly with licensing or the data reporting systems.
If you have questions
Telephone: 651-582-8691
Email: mde.educator-licensing@state.mn.us
Web site: http://education.state.mn.us/mde/index.html
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