Title Minnesota Statutes, Minnesota Statutes

126C.66 APPROPRIATION. § Subdivision 1.Appropriation. In addition to all sums which have been or may hereafter be appropriated by any law, the net proceeds of sale of any state school loan bonds authorized to be issued under section 126C.72, and all income received from the inves…

126C.67 SCHOOL LOANS. § Subdivision 1.Consideration by commissioner. The commissioner shall receive and consider applications for and grant or deny loans under sections 126C.61 to 126C.72. § Subd. 2.Application forms; rules. The commissioner, with the assistance of the attorney g…

126C.69 CAPITAL GRANTS AND LOANS. § Subdivision 1.Capital grant and loan requests and uses. Capital grants and loans are available only to qualifying districts. Capital grants and loans must not be used for the construction of swimming pools, ice arenas, athletic facilities, audi…

126C.70 PREPAYMENTS. A district may at any time pay the entire principal or part thereof and interest then due on a note or contract held by the state, out of any moneys not needed for school purposes. The district may issue and sell its refunding bonds in accordance with chapter…

126C.71 PAYMENT AND APPLICATIONS OF PAYMENT. § Subdivision 1.Payment. (a) On November 20 of each year, each district having an outstanding capital loan or debt service loan shall compute the excess amount in the debt redemption fund. The commissioner shall prescribe the form and …

126C.72 ISSUANCE AND SALE OF BONDS. § Subdivision 1.Certification. On or before October 1 in each year, the commissioner shall certify to the commissioner of management and budget the amount anticipated to be needed for debt service loans and capital loans to be made under the Ma…

127A.01 DEFINITIONS. For the purpose of this chapter, the terms defined in section 120A.05 have the same meanings. History: Ex1959 c 71 art 2 s 1; 1998 c 397 art 4 s 51; art 11 s 3

127A.05 COMMISSIONER OF EDUCATION. § Subdivision 1.Appointment and duties. The department shall be under the administrative control of the commissioner of education which office is established. The governor shall appoint the commissioner under the provisions of section 15.06. The…

127A.06 RECOMMENDATIONS; BUDGET. The commissioner of education shall recommend to the governor and legislature such modification and unification of laws relating to the state system of education as shall make those laws more readily understood and more effective in execution. The…

127A.065 CROSS-SUBSIDY REPORT. By March 30, the commissioner of education shall submit an annual report to the legislative committees having jurisdiction over kindergarten through grade 12 education on the amount each district is cross-subsidizing special education costs with gen…

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…