Title Minnesota Statutes, Minnesota Statutes

124E.11 ADMISSION REQUIREMENTS AND ENROLLMENT. (a) A charter school, including its preschool or prekindergarten program established under section 124E.06, subdivision 3, paragraph (b), may limit admission to: (1) pupils within an age group or grade level; (2) pupils who are eligi…

124E.12 EMPLOYMENT. § Subdivision 1.Teachers. A charter school, excluding its preschool or prekindergarten program established under section 124E.06, subdivision 3, must employ or contract with necessary teachers, as defined by section 122A.06, subdivision 2, or contract with a c…

124E.13 FACILITIES. § Subdivision 1.Leased space. A charter school may lease space from: an independent or special school board; other public organization; private, nonprofit, nonsectarian organization; private property owner; or a sectarian organization if the leased space is co…

124E.14 CONFLICTS OF INTEREST. (a) No member of the board of directors, employee, officer, or agent of a charter school shall participate in selecting, awarding, or administering a contract if a conflict of interest exists. A conflict exists when: (1) the board member, employee, …

124E.15 TRANSPORTATION. (a) A charter school must comply with all pupil transportation requirements in section 123B.88, subdivision 1. A charter school must not require parents to surrender their rights to pupil transportation under section 123B.88, subdivision 2. (b) A charter s…

124E.16 REPORTS. § Subdivision 1.Audit report. (a) A charter school is subject to the same financial audits, audit procedures, and audit requirements as a district, except as required under this subdivision. Audits must be conducted in compliance with generally accepted governmen…

124E.17 DISSEMINATION OF INFORMATION. § Subdivision 1.Charter school information. (a) Charter schools must disseminate information about the school's offerings and enrollment procedures to families that reflect the diversity of Minnesota's population and targeted groups. Targeted…

124E.20 GENERAL EDUCATION REVENUE. § Subdivision 1.Revenue calculation. (a) General education revenue must be paid to a charter school as though it were a district. The general education revenue for each adjusted pupil unit is the state average general education revenue per pupil…

124E.21 SPECIAL EDUCATION AID. § Subdivision 1.Special education aid. (a) Except as provided in section 124E.23, special education aid, excluding cross subsidy reduction aid under section 125A.76, subdivision 2e, must be paid to a charter school according to section 125A.76, as t…

124E.22 BUILDING LEASE AID. (a) When a charter school finds it economically advantageous to rent or lease a building or land for any instructional purpose and it determines that the total operating capital revenue under section 126C.10, subdivision 13, is insufficient for this pu…

124E.23 TRANSPORTATION REVENUE. Transportation revenue must be paid to a charter school that provides transportation services according to section 124E.15, according to this section. Transportation aid shall equal transportation revenue. In addition to the revenue under section 1…

124E.24 OTHER AID, GRANTS, AND REVENUE. (a) A charter school is eligible to receive other aids, grants, and revenue according to chapters 120A to 129C, as though it were a district. (b) Notwithstanding paragraph (a), a charter school may not receive aid, a grant, or revenue if a …

124E.25 PAYMENT OF AIDS TO CHARTER SCHOOLS. § Subdivision 1.Payments. Notwithstanding section 127A.45, subdivision 3, if the current year aid payment percentage under section 127A.45, subdivision 2, paragraph (d), is 90 or greater, aid payments for the current fiscal year to a ch…

124E.26 USE OF STATE MONEY. § Subdivision 1.Purchasing buildings. A charter school may not use state money to purchase land or buildings. The charter school may own land and buildings if obtained through nonstate sources. § Subd. 2.Procurement policy required. Prior to the expend…

124E.27 CMO AND EMO PUBLIC ACCOUNTING AND REPORTING. (a) A charter school that enters into a management agreement with a CMO or EMO must: (1) publish on the charter school website for at least 20 business days the proposed final agreement for public review and comment before the …

124F.01 INNOVATION RESEARCH ZONES PILOT PROGRAM. § Subdivision 1.Establishment; requirements for participation; research zone plans. (a) The innovation research zone pilot program is established to improve student and school outcomes consistent with the comprehensive achievement …

124F.02 EXPERIENTIAL AND APPLIED LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES FOR STUDENTS. (a) To strengthen the alignment between career and college ready curriculum and state and local academic standards and increase students' opportunities for participating in applied and experiential learning in …

124F.03 P-TECH SCHOOLS. § Subdivision 1.Establishment. (a) P-TECH schools are established as a public-private partnership that will prepare students for high-skill jobs of the future in identified growth industries. (b) The P-TECH school model must deliver five core benefits to s…

124F.04 INNOVATIVE DELIVERY OF CAREER AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION PROGRAMS; SHARING OF DISTRICT RESOURCES. § Subdivision 1.Establishment; requirements for participation. (a) A program is established to improve student, career and college readiness, and school outcomes by allowing gro…

124F.05 EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT TRANSITIONS SYSTEM. § Subdivision 1.Goals. To better prepare all learners to make transitions between education and employment, a comprehensive education and employment transitions system is established that is driven by multisector partnerships a…

124F.06 COMPREHENSIVE YOUTH APPRENTICESHIP PROGRAM. § Subdivision 1.Academic instruction and work-related learning. Comprehensive youth apprenticeship programs and other work-based learning programs under the education and employment transitions system must integrate academic ins…

124F.07 GENERAL APPLICATION OF WORKPLACE HEALTH AND SAFETY LAWS; DISPLACEMENT OF WORKERS PROHIBITED. (a) All state and federal laws relating to workplace health and safety apply to youth apprenticeships. (b) The employment of a youth apprentice may not displace or cause any reduc…

124F.08 EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT TRANSITIONS PARTNERSHIPS. § Subdivision 1.Local partnerships; establishment. Local education and employment transitions partnerships may be established to implement local education and employment transitions systems. Local partnerships must repres…

124F.09 SERVICE-LEARNING AND WORK-BASED LEARNING CURRICULUM AND PROGRAMS. § Subdivision 1.Service-learning and work-based learning programs study. The governor's Workforce Development Board must assist the commissioner in studying how to combine community service activities and s…

125A.01 DEFINITIONS. § Subdivision 1.General application. For purposes of this chapter, the words defined in section 120A.05 have the same meaning. § Subd. 2.Dyslexia. "Dyslexia" means a specific learning disability that is neurological in origin. It is characterized by difficult…

125A.02 CHILD WITH A DISABILITY DEFINED. § Subdivision 1.Child with a disability. "Child with a disability" means a child identified under federal and state special education law as deaf or hard-of-hearing, blind or visually impaired, deafblind, or having a speech or language imp…

125A.023 STATE AGENCY COORDINATION RESPONSIBILITIES. § Subdivision 1.Citation. This section and section 125A.027 shall be cited as the "Interagency Services for Children with Disabilities Act." § Subd. 2.Purpose. It is the policy of the state to develop and implement a coordinate…

125A.027 LOCAL AGENCY COORDINATION RESPONSIBILITIES. § Subdivision 1.School board and county board responsibilities. (a) It is the joint responsibility of school and county boards to coordinate, provide, and pay for appropriate services and to facilitate payment for services from…

125A.03 SPECIAL INSTRUCTION FOR CHILDREN WITH A DISABILITY. (a) As defined in paragraph (b), every district must provide special instruction and services, either within the district or in another district, for all children with a disability, including providing required services …

125A.04 HIGH SCHOOL DIPLOMA. Upon completion of secondary school or the equivalent, a pupil with a disability who satisfactorily attains the objectives in the pupil's individualized education program must be granted a high school diploma that is identical to the diploma granted t…

125A.06 BLIND PERSONS' LITERACY RIGHTS. (a) Paragraphs (b) to (f) may be cited as the "Blind Persons' Literacy Rights and Education Act." (b) The following definitions apply to paragraphs (c) to (f). "Blind student" means an individual who is eligible for special educational serv…

125A.07 RULEMAKING. (a) Consistent with this section, the commissioner shall adopt new rules and amend existing rules related to children with disabilities only under specific authority and consistent with the requirements of chapter 14 and paragraph (c). (b) As provided in this …

125A.08 INDIVIDUALIZED EDUCATION PROGRAMS. § Subdivision 1.Individualized education programs. (a) At the beginning of each school year, each school district shall have in effect, for each child with a disability, an individualized education program. (b) As defined in this section…

125A.083 STUDENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS; TRANSFERRING RECORDS. To efficiently and effectively meet federal and state compliance and accountability requirements using an online case management reporting system, beginning July 1, 2018, a school district may contract only for a student…

125A.091 ALTERNATIVE DISPUTE RESOLUTION AND DUE PROCESS HEARINGS. § Subdivision 1. [Repealed by amendment, 2009 c 96 art 3 s 8] § Subd. 2. [Repealed by amendment, 2009 c 96 art 3 s 8] § Subd. 3. [Repealed by amendment, 2009 c 96 art 3 s 8] § Subd. 3a.Additional requirements for p…

125A.092 STATE COMPLAINT PROCESS. § Subdivision 1.Filing a state complaint. (a) An organization or individual may file a signed, written complaint with the Department of Education, Office of General Counsel, Dispute Resolution. (b) The complaint must include: (1) a statement that…

125A.094 RESTRICTIVE PROCEDURES FOR CHILDREN WITH DISABILITIES. The use of restrictive procedures for children with disabilities is governed by sections 125A.0941 and 125A.0942. History: 2009 c 96 art 3 s 9

125A.0941 DEFINITIONS. (a) The following terms have the meanings given them. (b) "Emergency" means a situation where immediate intervention is needed to protect a child or other individual from physical injury. Emergency does not mean circumstances such as: a child who does not r…

125A.0942 STANDARDS FOR RESTRICTIVE PROCEDURES. § Subdivision 1.Restrictive procedures plan. (a) Schools that intend to use restrictive procedures shall maintain and make publicly accessible in an electronic format on a school or district website or make a paper copy available up…

125A.11 SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS FOR NONRESIDENT CHILDREN. § Subdivision 1.Nonresident tuition rate; other costs. (a) For fiscal year 2015 and later, when a school district provides special instruction and services for a pupil with a disability as defined in section 125A.02 outside t…

125A.12 ATTENDANCE IN ANOTHER DISTRICT. No resident of a district who is eligible for special instruction and services pursuant to this section may be denied provision of this instruction and service because of attending a public school in another district pursuant to section 123…

125A.125 REPORT ON HOMELESS CHILDREN SERVED. The commissioner of education must collect statistics on the number of homeless children who have received Part C services and must annually report those results to the legislature by July 1. History: 2013 c 116 art 5 s 30

125A.13 SCHOOL OF PARENTS' CHOICE. (a) Nothing in this chapter must be construed as preventing parents of a child with a disability from sending the child to a school of their choice, if they so elect, subject to admission standards and policies adopted according to sections 125A…

125A.14 EXTENDED SCHOOL YEAR. A district may provide extended school year services for children with a disability living within the district and nonresident children temporarily placed in the district pursuant to section 125A.15. Prior to March 31 or 30 days after the child with …

125A.15 PLACEMENT IN ANOTHER DISTRICT; RESPONSIBILITY. The responsibility for special instruction and services for a child with a disability temporarily placed in another district for care and treatment shall be determined in the following manner: (a) The district of residence of…

125A.155 SPECIAL EDUCATION RECIPROCITY; COMMISSIONER DUTIES. The commissioner of education must develop a special education reciprocity agreement form. The reciprocity form must specify the procedures used to calculate special education tuition charges for both Minnesota students…