Title Minnesota Statutes, Minnesota Statutes

123A.48 CONSOLIDATION. § Subdivision 1.Proceeding to consolidate. Common or independent districts or parts thereof, or any combination of the foregoing may consolidate into a single independent district by proceedings taken in accordance with this section. The proposed new distri…

123A.482 JOINT POWERS COOPERATIVE FACILITY. § Subdivision 1.Schools may be jointly operated. Two or more school districts may agree to jointly operate a secondary facility. The districts may choose to operate the facility according to a joint powers agreement under section 123A.7…

123A.485 CONSOLIDATION TRANSITION REVENUE. § Subdivision 1.Eligibility and use. A district that has been reorganized after June 30, 1994, under section 123A.48 is eligible for consolidation transition revenue. Revenue is equal to the sum of aid under subdivision 2 and levy under …

123A.488 CONSOLIDATION; INSTRUCTION BY NONRESIDENTIAL DISTRICT. § Subdivision 1.Aid payments in case of alteration of boundaries. Where two or more districts hereafter unite the state aid shall continue to be paid for the remainder of the school year in which the union was comple…

123A.49 APPEALS. § Subdivision 1.Grounds for appeal from final order. Any district or any person aggrieved by final order of the county board or final order of the county auditor, made pursuant to the provisions of this code, may appeal from such final order to the district court…

123A.50 PLATS. The auditor shall keep in the auditor's office books containing a correct plat and description of each district, whether wholly or partly in the auditor's county. The auditor shall submit to the state department a description and the revised plats showing changes m…

123A.55 CLASSES, NUMBER. Districts shall be classified as common, independent, special, or charter districts. Each common, independent, and special district is a public corporation. Each district shall be known by its classification and assigned a number by the commissioner so th…

123A.56 ASSIGNMENT OF IDENTIFICATION NUMBERS. § Subdivision 1.Assignment. The commissioner shall, by order, assign an identification number to each district. The assignment shall be made so that each classified district has an exclusive identification number. § Subd. 2.Notificati…

123A.58 COMMON DISTRICT TO INDEPENDENT DISTRICT. § Subdivision 1.Vote to change organization of district. If six or more eligible voters of a common district desire to change the organization of their district to an independent district, they may call for a vote upon the question…

123A.60 REMAINING DISTRICTS, ACTION OF COUNTY BOARD; ELECTION. § Subdivision 1.Dissolution. Any organized district not maintaining a classified school within the district, except those districts which have a contract with a state university or with the Board of Regents of the Uni…

123A.61 PRIVATE SCHOOLS IN NONOPERATING DISTRICTS. Section 123A.60 shall not apply to any district in which is located any existing private school maintaining elementary and secondary education for 75 percent of eligible pupils within the district and complying with the requireme…

123A.62 BORDER DISTRICTS; CONTINUED OPERATION; FRANCONIA. § Subdivision 1.Border districts. The common school districts situated along the border of the state of Minnesota and the state of Wisconsin which have, for the preceding 25 years, prior to May 26, 1965 been educating pupi…

123A.64 DUTY TO MAINTAIN ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY SCHOOLS. Each district must maintain classified elementary and secondary schools, grades 1 through 12, unless the district is exempt according to section 123A.61 or 123A.62, has made an agreement with another district or districts…

123A.65 PHASE OUT OF DISSOLVED DISTRICT. The board of each district so dissolved shall continue to maintain schools until all its territory has been attached to a proper district not later than July 1. Such boards shall only make such contracts and do such things as are necessary…

123A.66 PROCEDURE FOR ATTACHMENT TO ORGANIZED DISTRICTS. Upon notice and hearing, as provided in section 123A.46 for the attachment of dissolved districts, all territory of school districts dissolved by sections 123A.64 to 123A.72 and all area of the state not in a district maint…

123A.67 ALLOCATION OF ASSETS AND LIABILITIES; LEVY. § Subdivision 1.Title to property. Title to all the property, real and personal, of any district dissolved under the provisions of sections 123A.64 to 123A.72 and all legally valid and enforceable claims and contract obligations…

123A.68 OFFICERS AND TEACHERS, TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS. The board of the district maintaining a secondary school to which district is attached territory of districts discontinued by sections 123A.64 to 123A.72 must assume the duties and responsibilities of the board of the distri…

123A.69 SPECIAL SCHOOL DISTRICTS, APPLICATION; MINNEAPOLIS AND SOUTH ST. PAUL. When provisions of sections 123A.64 to 123A.72 are made to apply to any special school district, such district shall hereby be converted to an independent school district on the effective date specifie…

123A.70 PRIVATE SCHOOLS; PRINSBURG. Sections 123A.64 to 123A.68 shall not apply to any common school district in which is located any existing private school maintaining elementary and secondary education for 50 percent of the eligible pupils within the district and complying wit…

123A.71 APPEAL. The appeal provisions of section 123A.49 shall be applicable only after the county board has issued its final order of attachment under section 123A.46. History: 1967 c 833 s 11; 1975 c 162 s 20; 1998 c 397 art 5 s 104; art 11 s 3

123A.72 SEVERABILITY. The provisions of sections 123A.64 to 123A.72 shall be construed to be severable. In the event a particular provision may be determined to be invalid, such determination shall not affect any other provision of sections 123A.64 to 123A.72. History: 1967 c 833…

123A.73 LEVY LIMITATIONS OF REORGANIZED DISTRICTS. § Subdivision 1.Definitions. The terms defined in chapters 120B, 122A, 123A, 123B, 124D, 125A, 126C, and 127A, have the same meanings when they are used in this section, unless otherwise clearly indicated. § Subd. 2.Dissolution; …

123A.74 OBLIGATIONS UPON DISTRICT REORGANIZATION. § Subdivision 1.Capital loan obligations. If a district has a capital loan outstanding at the time of reorganization according to section 123A.46, 123A.48, or sections 123A.35 to 123A.43, and if the plan for reorganization provide…

123A.75 EMPLOYEES OF REORGANIZED DISTRICTS. § Subdivision 1.Teacher assignment. (a) As of the effective date of a consolidation in which a district is divided or the dissolution of a district and its attachment to two or more existing districts, each teacher employed by an affect…

123A.76 EXPENSES OF TRANSITION. The board of a district to which a dissolved district is attached pursuant to section 123A.46, may, for the purpose of paying the expenses of negotiations and other administrative expenses relating to the transition, enter into agreements with bank…

123A.77 SURPLUS COUNTY SCHOOL TAX FUNDS; DISTRIBUTION. When, by reason of reorganization of districts, there is a surplus in the county treasury to the credit of the county school tax fund on account of an excessive tax levy already made, and when there is no need for the surplus…

123A.78 JOINT POWERS AGREEMENTS FOR FACILITIES. § Subdivision 1.Instructional facilities. Any group of districts may form a joint powers district under section 471.59 representing all participating districts to build or acquire a facility to be used for instructional purposes. Th…

123A.79 MEETINGS OF JOINT POWERS BOARD. (a) Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, a joint powers board established under section 123A.443 or 123A.78, and the board of each of its member districts may hold meetings at a facility operated by the joint powers board. (b) The joint…

123B.01 DEFINITIONS. For purposes of this chapter, the words defined in section 120A.05 have the same meanings. History: Ex1959 c 71 art 4 s 1; 1998 c 397 art 6 s 124; art 11 s 3

123B.02 GENERAL POWERS OF INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICTS. § Subdivision 1.Board authority. The board must have the general charge of the business of the district, the school houses, and of the interests of the schools thereof. The board's authority to govern, manage, and control th…

123B.025 SCHOOL SPONSORSHIP AND ADVERTISING REVENUE. § Subdivision 1.Board authority; contracts. A school board may enter into a contract with advertisers, sponsors, or others regarding advertising and naming rights to school facilities under the general charge of the district. A…

123B.03 BACKGROUND CHECK. § Subdivision 1.Background check required. (a) A school hiring authority shall request a criminal history background check from the superintendent of the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension on all individuals who are offered employment in a school and on all…

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