Title Minnesota Statutes, Minnesota Statutes

127A.07 SHARED SERVICE AGREEMENTS. The commissioner may make a shared service agreement with another public agency. The agreement must be of mutual benefit to the state, the department, and the other agency. The term of the agreement must not be more than three years. The commiss…

127A.08 CONFERENCE AND WORKSHOP FEE RECEIPTS; RECEIPTS AND PAYMENTS FROM PUBLIC AND NONPROFIT PRIVATE AGENCIES. § Subdivision 1.Conference and workshop fees. The commissioner may establish procedures to set and collect fees to defray costs of conferences and workshops conducted b…

127A.09 FEDERAL AID FOR EDUCATION. § Subdivision 1.Acceptance. The commissioner may accept and administer federal funds when such funds become available that further public education and are consistent with state policy and the mission of the department. Acceptance of the money i…

127A.095 IMPLEMENTATION OF ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION ACT. § Subdivision 1.Continued implementation. The Department of Education shall continue to implement the federal Elementary and Secondary Education Act without interruption. § Subd. 2. [Repealed by amendment, 2016 c …

127A.10 STATE OFFICIALS AND SCHOOL BOARD MEMBERS TO BE DISINTERESTED; PENALTY. If the commissioner of education, an assistant or any employee connected with the commissioner's office, or any member of any school board shall accept or receive any money, gift or any property, or fa…

127A.11 MONITOR MEDICAL ASSISTANCE SERVICES FOR DISABLED STUDENTS. The commissioner of education, in cooperation with the commissioners of human services and children, youth, and families, shall monitor the costs of health-related, special education services provided by public sc…

127A.12 COMMISSIONER MEMBERSHIP IN CERTAIN ORGANIZATIONS. The commissioner may become a member of the Council of Chief State School Officers, an association of state departments of education, and pay membership dues and contribute to the association for services rendered to the s…

127A.13 CONTRACTS WITH FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. § Subdivision 1.Rules governing. The commissioner shall prescribe rules under which contracts, agreements, or arrangements may be made with agencies of the federal government for funds, services, commodities, or equipment to be made avai…

127A.15 LIBRARY INFORMATION SERVICES. § Subdivision 1.Providing library information. The department may provide library information services it considers appropriate and necessary to any state agency, governmental unit, nonprofit organization, or private entity. The department ma…

127A.151 STATE SCHOOL LIBRARIAN. (a) The Department of Education must employ a state school librarian within the State Library Services Division of the department to provide technical assistance to licensed school library media specialists and licensed school librarians. The stat…

127A.17 UNIFORM SYSTEMS OF RECORDS AND OF ACCOUNTING; COMMISSIONER. The commissioner of education shall prepare a uniform system of records for public schools and require reports from superintendents and principals of schools, teachers, school officers, and the chief officers of …

127A.18 MANAGEMENT ASSISTANCE TO SCHOOL DISTRICTS. The department shall provide management assistance if requested by a district. The assistance may include: (1) developing data and assumptions for the district to use in setting priorities and goals and in considering management …

127A.19 FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT ASSISTANCE AND TRAINING TO SCHOOL DISTRICTS AND SCHOOL SITES. The Department of Education shall make available to school districts and individual school sites assistance and training in financial management. The assistance and training shall be in at …

127A.20 EVIDENCE-BASED EDUCATION GRANTS. § Subdivision 1.Purpose and applicability. The purpose of this section is to create a process to describe, measure, and report on the effectiveness of any prekindergarten through grade 12 education program funded in whole or in part throug…

127A.205 EDUCATION GRANTS. § Subdivision 1.Commissioner duties. (a) The commissioner of education must not enter into a grant agreement unless the potential grantee meets the requirements of this section. The potential grantee must document to the commissioner that it meets the r…

127A.21 OFFICE OF THE INSPECTOR GENERAL. § Subdivision 1.Establishment of Office of the Inspector General; powers; duties. The commissioner must establish within the department an Office of the Inspector General. The inspector general shall report directly to the commissioner. Th…

127A.215 COMPREHENSIVE SCHOOL MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES LEAD. § Subdivision 1.Lead position established. The department must employ a comprehensive school mental health services lead to serve as a source of information and support for schools in addressing the mental health needs of…

127A.30 LEGISLATIVE PERMANENT SCHOOL FUND COMMISSION. § Subdivision 1.Commission established; membership. (a) The Legislative Permanent School Fund Commission of 12 members is established to advise the Department of Natural Resources and the school trust lands director on the man…

127A.31 GOAL OF THE PERMANENT SCHOOL FUND. The legislature intends that it is the goal of the permanent school fund to secure the maximum long-term economic return from the school trust lands consistent with the fiduciary responsibilities imposed by the trust relationship establi…

127A.32 SCHOOL ENDOWMENT FUND; DESIGNATION. For the purpose of aid to public schools, a school endowment fund is established. The school endowment fund shall consist of the income from the permanent school fund. The commissioner may accept for and on behalf of the permanent schoo…

127A.33 SCHOOL ENDOWMENT FUND; APPORTIONMENT. The commissioner shall apportion the school endowment fund semiannually on the first Monday in March and September in each year, to districts whose schools have been in session at least nine months. The apportionment shall be in propo…

127A.34 COUNTY AUDITOR AND COMMISSIONER DUTIES. § Subdivision 1.Copy to commissioner of management and budget; appropriation. The commissioner shall furnish a copy of the apportionment of the school endowment fund to the commissioner of management and budget, who thereupon shall …

127A.351 POLICY AND PURPOSE. (a) The purpose of sections 127A.351 to 127A.353 is to establish a school trust lands director position to recommend management policies for Minnesota's school trust lands in accordance with the provisions of the Minnesota Constitution, article XI, se…

127A.352 POLICY RECOMMENDATIONS; DUTIES. § Subdivision 1.Recommendations. The Legislative Permanent School Fund Commission shall recommend policies for the school trust lands director and the commissioner of natural resources that are consistent with the Minnesota Constitution, s…

127A.353 SCHOOL TRUST LANDS DIRECTOR. § Subdivision 1.Appointment. The school trust lands director shall be appointed by the governor. The commissioner of natural resources shall provide human resources, payroll, accounting, procurement, and other similar administrative services …

127A.40 MANNER OF PAYMENT OF STATE AIDS. It shall be the duty of the commissioner to deliver to the commissioner of management and budget a certificate for each district entitled to receive state aid under the provisions of this chapter. Upon the receipt of such certificate, it s…

127A.41 DISTRIBUTION OF SCHOOL AIDS; APPROPRIATION. § Subdivision 1.Commissioner duties. The commissioner shall supervise distribution of school aids and grants in accordance with law. The commissioner may make rules consistent with law for the distribution to enable districts to…

127A.42 REDUCTION OF AID FOR VIOLATION OF LAW. § Subdivision 1.State aids. The amount of state aids to which a district is entitled shall be the amount computed according to statutes. The annual state aid certificate made by the commissioner to the commissioner of management and …

127A.43 DISTRICT EMPLOYMENT OF UNLICENSED TEACHERS; AID REDUCTION. When a district employs one or more teachers who do not hold a valid teaching license, state aid shall be reduced in the proportion that the number of such teachers is to the total number of teachers employed by t…

127A.441 AID REDUCTION; LEVY REVENUE RECOGNITION CHANGE. (a) Each year, the state aids payable to any school district for that fiscal year that are recognized as revenue in the school district's general and community service funds shall be adjusted by an amount equal to (1) the a…

127A.45 PAYMENT OF AIDS AND CREDITS TO SCHOOL DISTRICTS. § Subdivision 1.Applicability. This section applies to all aids or credits paid by the commissioner from the general fund to districts. § Subd. 2.Definitions. (a) "Other district receipts" means payments by county treasurer…

127A.47 PAYMENTS TO RESIDENT AND NONRESIDENT DISTRICTS. § Subdivision 1.Aid to serving district. (a) Unless otherwise specifically provided by law, general education aid must be paid according to this subdivision. (b) Except as provided in paragraph (c), general education aid mus…

127A.48 ADJUSTMENT OF NET TAX CAPACITY. § Subdivision 1. MS 2012 [Renumbered 273.1325, subdivision 1] § Subd. 2. MS 2012 [Renumbered 273.1325, subd 2] § Subd. 3. MS 2012 [Renumbered 273.1325, subd 3] § Subd. 4. MS 2012 [Renumbered 273.1325, subd 4] § Subd. 5. MS 2012 [Renumbered …

127A.49 AID ADJUSTMENTS. § Subdivision 1.Omissions. No adjustments to any aid payments made pursuant to this chapter or chapters 120B, 122A, 123A, 123B, 124D, 124E, 125A, and 126C resulting from omissions in district reports, except those adjustments determined by the legislative…

127A.50 AID ADJUSTMENTS DUE TO CHANGES IN EMPLOYER RETIREMENT CONTRIBUTION RATES. § Subdivision 1. MS 2012 [Repealed, 2013 c 116 art 1 s 59] § Subd. 2.Appropriation. The amounts necessary to pay any positive net adjustments under this section to any school district are appropriat…

127A.51 STATEWIDE AVERAGE REVENUE. (a) By December 1 of each year the commissioner must estimate the statewide average adjusted general revenue per adjusted pupil unit and the disparity in adjusted general revenue among pupils and districts by computing the ratio of the 95th perc…

127A.70 MINNESOTA P-20 EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP. § Subdivision 1.Establishment; membership. (a) A P-20 education partnership is established to create a seamless system of education that maximizes achievements of all students, from early childhood through elementary, secondary, and p…

127A.80 COMPACT FOR EDUCATION. The Compact for Education is hereby entered into and enacted into law with all jurisdictions legally joining therein, in the form substantially as follows: COMPACT FOR EDUCATION ARTICLE I Purpose and Policy (A) It is the purpose of this compact to: …

127A.81 EDUCATION COMMISSION. § Subdivision 1.Appointment of members. Legislative members of the Education Commission established in section 127A.80, article III (A), are appointed as follows: One member of the house of representatives appointed by the speaker of the house for a …

127A.82 MILITARY INTERSTATE CHILDREN'S COMPACT STATE COUNCIL. § Subdivision 1.Establishment; membership. (a) A Military Interstate Children's Compact State Council is established to provide for the coordination among state agencies, local education agencies, and military installa…

127A.83 INTRASTATE STUDENT TRANSFERS FOR CHILDREN OF MILITARY SERVICE MEMBERS. (a) Notwithstanding section 127A.85, article III, and for the purposes of intrastate student transfers between Minnesota local education agencies, the provisions of the Interstate Compact on Educationa…

127A.85 INTERSTATE COMPACT ON EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY FOR MILITARY CHILDREN. ARTICLE I PURPOSE It is the purpose of this compact to remove barriers to educational success imposed on children of military families because of frequent moves and deployment of their parents by: A. Fac…

127A.851 PREVAILING LAW. § Subdivision 1.Academic credits; high school diplomas. Notwithstanding article VII of the compact under section 127A.85, other compact provisions, or other law to the contrary, where Minnesota statute or rule governing the awarding of academic credits or…

127A.852 MILITARY-CONNECTED YOUTH IDENTIFIER. (a) When a school district updates its enrollment forms in the ordinary course of business, the district must include a box on the enrollment form to allow students to self-identify as a military-connected youth. For purposes of this …

127A.86 PURPLE STAR SCHOOL DESIGNATION. § Subdivision 1.Definition. For purposes of this section, "military-connected student" means a student who has an immediate family member, including a parent or sibling, who: (1) is currently a member of the armed forces serving as either a…