Title Minnesota Statutes, Minnesota Statutes

123B.04 SITE DECISION MAKING; INDIVIDUALIZED LEARNING AGREEMENT; OTHER AGREEMENTS. § Subdivision 1.Definition. "Education site" means a separate facility. A program within a facility or within a district is an education site if the school board recognizes it as a site. § Subd. 1a…

123B.045 DISTRICT-CREATED SITE-GOVERNED SCHOOLS. § Subdivision 1.Authority. (a) A school board may approve site-governed schools under this section by requesting site-governing school proposals. The request for proposals must include what types of schools or education innovations…

123B.06 EVALUATION OF PUPIL GROWTH AND PROGRESS; PERMANENT RECORDS. Each school district shall provide a testing program for the purpose of measuring pupil growth and for curriculum evaluation, as well as a system for grading and making reports to parents. Each district shall dev…

123B.07 MISSING CHILDREN; VOLUNTARY FINGERPRINTING. § Subdivision 1.Definition. For purposes of this section: (a) "child" means a person under 18 years old; and (b) "missing child" means a child who has run away or is otherwise missing from the home or the care, custody, and cont…

123B.08 FLAG SCHOOL RECORDS OF MISSING CHILDREN. § Subdivision 1.Flag record upon certain notification. A district must flag the record of a pupil who is currently or was previously enrolled in the district if a law enforcement agency notifies the district of the pupil's disappea…

123B.09 BOARDS OF INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICTS. § Subdivision 1.School board membership. The care, management, and control of independent districts is vested in a board of directors, to be known as the school board. The term of office of a member shall be four years commencing on…

123B.10 PUBLICATION OF FINANCIAL INFORMATION. § Subdivision 1.Budgets; form of notification. (a) Every board must publish revenue and expenditure budgets for the current year and the actual revenues, expenditures, fund balances for the prior year and projected fund balances for t…

123B.11 IMPREST CASH FUNDS. § Subdivision 1.Imprest fund. The board may establish one or more imprest funds for the payment in cash of any proper claim against the district which it is impractical to pay in any other manner, except that no claim for salary or personal expenses of…

123B.12 INSUFFICIENT FUNDS TO PAY ORDERS. (a) In the event that a district or a cooperative unit defined in section 123A.24, subdivision 2, has insufficient funds to pay its usual lawful current obligations, subject to section 471.69, the board may enter into agreements with bank…

123B.13 LAND IN SETTLEMENT OF CLAIM AGAINST SURETY. § Subdivision 1.Power of board to accept. When any district now has or asserts any claim or judgment against any sureties on the bonds of any depository of its funds for the failure of any such depository to account for or pay o…

123B.14 OFFICERS OF INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICTS. § Subdivision 1.Officer selection. On the first Monday of January of each year, or as soon thereafter as practicable, the board must meet and organize by selecting a chair, clerk, and a treasurer, who shall hold their offices for …

123B.143 SUPERINTENDENT. § Subdivision 1.Contract; duties. All districts maintaining a classified secondary school must employ a superintendent who shall be an ex officio nonvoting member of the school board. The authority for selection and employment of a superintendent must be …

123B.147 PRINCIPALS. § Subdivision 1.Supervision of school building. Each public school building, as defined by section 120A.05, subdivisions 9, 11, and 13, in an independent district may be under the supervision of a principal who is assigned to that responsibility by the board …

123B.19 FAILURE OF AUDITOR TO REPORT. Any county auditor who shall fail to make to the commissioner any report of apportionment required by law shall forfeit, for the benefit of the school fund of the county, the sum of $50. History: Ex1959 c 71 art 8 s 13; 1998 c 397 art 6 s 124

123B.195 BOARD MEMBERS' RIGHT TO EMPLOYMENT. Notwithstanding section 471.88, subdivision 5, a school board member may be newly employed or may continue to be employed by a school district as an employee only if there is a reasonable expectation at the beginning of the fiscal year…

123B.20 DEALING IN SCHOOL SUPPLIES. Except as provided for in sections 471.87 and 471.88, no teacher in the public schools, nor any state, county, town, city, or district school officer, including any superintendent of schools, or any member of any school board, nor any person co…

123B.21 DUTY OF OFFICERS TO REPORT VIOLATIONS OF LAW. Every officer to whom reports are required by law to be made and for the failure to make which a penalty or fine or forfeiture is provided, shall give immediate written notice of such failure to the delinquent and to the prope…

123B.22 COMBINATION TO CONTROL PRICES. If at any time any publisher shall enter into any understanding, agreement, or combination to control the prices or to restrict competition in the adoption or sale of school books, each and every contract made by the publisher shall thereupo…

123B.23 LIABILITY INSURANCE; OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES. The governing body of any independent school district may procure insurance against liability of the district or of its officers and employees for damages resulting from wrongful acts and omissions of the district and its offic…

123B.24 LEGAL ACTIONS BY DISTRICTS. Any board may prosecute actions in the name of the district in the following cases: (1) On a contract made with the district, or with the board in its official capacity; (2) To enforce a liability, or a duty enjoined by law, in its favor or in …

123B.25 LEGAL ACTIONS AGAINST DISTRICTS AND TEACHERS. (a) An action may be brought against any district, either upon a contract made with the district or its board, in its official capacity and within the scope of its authority, or for an injury to the rights of the plaintiff ari…

123B.28 RECORDS AS EVIDENCE. The records of all districts and boards and all transcripts thereof, or any part thereof, certified by the clerk or other officer having custody of the records or transcripts, shall be prima facie evidence of the facts stated in the records or transcr…

123B.29 SALE AT AUCTION. Notwithstanding sections 123B.52, subdivision 1, 471.345 or any other law, the board of a school district or of a cooperative center for vocational education may, in lieu of advertising for bids, sell at public auction to the highest responsible bidder a …

123B.30 IMPROPER CLASSIFICATION OF PUPILS. No district shall classify its pupils with reference to race, color, social position, or nationality, nor separate its pupils into different schools or departments upon any of such grounds. Any district so classifying or separating any o…

123B.31 LIMITATION OF SECTIONS. Material contained in sections 120A.22, subdivision 1a, 120B.14, 120B.35, 121A.21, 122A.44, 122A.69, 123A.22, 123A.24, 123B.02, subdivisions 1 to 15 and 17 to 20, 123B.09, 123B.11, 123B.14, 123B.143, 123B.147, 123B.23, 123B.49, 123B.51, 123B.52, 12…

123B.32 LANGUAGE ACCESS PLAN. § Subdivision 1.Language access plan required. Starting in the 2025-2026 school year, during a regularly scheduled public board hearing, a school board must adopt a language access plan that specifies the district's process and procedures to render e…

123B.34 MINNESOTA PUBLIC SCHOOL FEE LAW, CITATION. Sections 123B.34 to 123B.39 may be cited as the "Minnesota Public School Fee Law." History: 1974 c 561 s 1; 1998 c 397 art 1 s 58; art 11 s 3

123B.35 GENERAL POLICY. It is the policy of the state of Minnesota that public school education shall be free and no pupil shall be denied an education because of economic inability to furnish educational books and supplies necessary to complete educational requirements necessary…

123B.36 AUTHORIZED FEES. § Subdivision 1.School boards may require fees. (a) For purposes of this subdivision, "home school" means a home school as defined in sections 120A.22 and 120A.24 with five or fewer students receiving instruction. (b) A school board is authorized to requi…

123B.37 PROHIBITED FEES. § Subdivision 1.Boards shall not charge certain fees. (a) A board is not authorized to charge fees in the following areas: (1) textbooks, workbooks, art materials, laboratory supplies, towels; (2) supplies necessary for participation in any instructional …

123B.38 HEARING. Before the initiation of any fee not authorized or prohibited by sections 123B.36 and 123B.37, the local board must hold a public hearing within the district upon three weeks published notice in the district's official newspaper, or such notice as is otherwise re…

123B.39 POSTSECONDARY INSTRUCTIONAL PROGRAMS. Sections 123B.34 to 123B.39 may not be construed to prohibit a board from charging reasonable fees for goods and services provided in connection with any postsecondary instructional program, including but not limited to vocational tec…

123B.40 DECLARATION OF POLICY. It is the intent of the legislature to provide for distribution of educational aids such as textbooks, standardized tests and pupil support services so that every school pupil in the state will share equitably in education benefits and therefore fur…

123B.41 DEFINITIONS. § Subdivision 1.Application. As used in sections 123B.40 to 123B.48, the terms defined in this section shall have the meanings ascribed to them. § Subd. 2.Textbook. (a) "Textbook" means any book or book substitute, including electronic books as well as other …

123B.42 TEXTBOOKS; INDIVIDUAL INSTRUCTION OR COOPERATIVE LEARNING MATERIAL; STANDARD TESTS. § Subdivision 1.Providing education materials and tests. The commissioner of education shall promulgate rules under the provisions of chapter 14 requiring that in each school year, based u…

123B.43 USE OF INDIVIDUALIZED INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS. (a) The commissioner shall assure that textbooks and individualized instructional materials loaned to nonpublic school pupils are secular, neutral, nonideological and that they are incapable of diversion for religious use. (b…

123B.44 PROVISION OF PUPIL SUPPORT SERVICES. § Subdivision 1.Provided services. The commissioner of education shall promulgate rules under the provisions of chapter 14 requiring each district or other intermediary service area: (a) to provide each year upon formal request by a sp…

123B.445 NONPUBLIC EDUCATION COUNCIL. (a) The commissioner shall appoint a 15-member Council on Nonpublic Education. The 15 members shall represent various areas of the state, represent various methods of providing nonpublic education, and shall be knowledgeable about nonpublic e…

123B.45 PAYMENTS FOR CONTRACTUAL OBLIGATIONS. The commissioner shall make such payments to school districts or intermediary service areas pursuant to sections 123B.40 to 123B.42, and 123B.44 to 123B.48 as are needed to meet contractual obligations incurred for the provision of be…

123B.46 ADMINISTRATIVE COSTS. Each year, a district or intermediary service area may claim and receive from the department an additional sum for the administration of sections 123B.42, 123B.44, and 123B.445, equal to five percent of the district's or area's allocation for that ye…

123B.47 NOTICE TO DISTRICTS; PRORATION. If the appropriation for nonpublic educational aid under sections 123B.40 to 123B.48 is not sufficient to meet the required payments in any fiscal year, the department must notify the school districts at the earliest possible date of the ne…

123B.48 LIMIT ON DISTRICT OBLIGATIONS. If the amount appropriated for purposes of sections 123B.40 to 123B.42, and 123B.44 to 123B.48, for any year is not sufficient to make the payments required pursuant to sections 123B.40 to 123B.42, and 123B.44 to 123B.48, for that year, then…

123B.49 EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES; INSURANCE. § Subdivision 1.Activities outside district limits. Whenever it appears to be beneficial and for the best interest of the district and the pupils of the district to carry on any school sport activities or educational activities conne…

123B.492 SUPERVISED COMPETITIVE HIGH SCHOOL DIVING. Notwithstanding Minnesota Rules, part 4717.3750, any pool built before January 1, 1987, that was used for a one-meter board high school diving program during the 2000-2001 school year may be used for supervised competitive one-m…

123B.50 SPECIAL SCHOOL DISTRICTS, LAWS APPLICABLE. Special districts as now organized shall continue to operate under the special legislation and charter provisions governing them until conversion to independent districts. The provisions of law relating to independent districts s…

123B.51 SCHOOLHOUSES AND SITES; USES FOR SCHOOL AND NONSCHOOL PURPOSES; CLOSINGS. § Subdivision 1.Sites. According to section 126C.40, subdivision 1, or 465.71, when funds are available, the board may locate and acquire necessary sites of schoolhouses or enlargements, or addition…