Representatives from your professional organizations and their lobbyists worked with the 2001 Minnesota legislature to create the Minnesota Board of School Administrators (MBSA).

As with other professional boards, the MBSA is responsible for monitoring your profession. Before the formation of the MBSA, the Minnesota Commissioner of Children, Family and Learning (now the Minnesota Commissioner of Education), had the responsibility for monitoring Minnesota school administrators.

MBSA has eleven members and an executive director. Seven of the eleven MBSA members hold current Minnesota school administrator licenses, as does the executive director.

MBSA duties are described in MN Stat. 122A.14 and include:

1. Process all complaints against school administrators.
2. Process requests for issuing pre-approved continuing educational units (CEUs or clock hours) for educational administrative professional development.
3. Enforce and advise school administrators in the code of ethics covering standards of professional practice.
4. License of Minnesota school administrators (including request for licensure variance).
5. Review and approve preparation programs for school administrators and alternative programs for administrators.
6. Propose rulemaking.
7. Assess an annual fee from licensed school administrators to support MBSA.
8. Provide a bi-annual accountability report to the governor’s office.