Title 15.1, Elementary and Secondary Education

1. For each school district in the state, the superintendent of public instruction shall assign a baseline school district size weighting factor of: a. 1.36 if the students in average daily membership number fewer than 110; b. 1.35 if the students in average daily membership numb…

1. To determine the amount of state aid payable to each district, the superintendent of public instruction shall establish each district's baseline funding. A district's baseline funding consists of: a. All state aid received by the district in accordance with chapter 15.1-27 dur…

If a district's taxable valuation per student is less than twenty percent of the state average valuation per student, the superintendent of public instruction, for purposes of determining state aid in accordance with section 15.1-27-04.1, shall utilize an amount equal to sixty mi…

1. Upon the written request of a school district, the superintendent of public instruction may forward all or a portion of any per student special education payments to which a school district is entitled directly to the special education unit of which the school district is a me…

A school district is entitled to receive payments under this chapter for a student who is absent up to one semester because the student is a member of the North Dakota national guard and is engaged in active duty or training within or outside the state.

If during the 2010-11 school year, a school district received payments as a result of section 15.1-27-15, as the section existed on June 30, 2011, and if that district is not eligible for the factor established under subdivision h of subsection 1 of section 15.1-27-03.1, the dist…

1. If any school district receiving payments under this chapter cooperates with another school district for the joint provision of educational services under a plan approved by the superintendent of public instruction, the superintendent of public instruction shall, notwithstandi…

1. Notwithstanding section 15.1-27-03.2, the superintendent of public instruction shall create and assign a separate weighting factor to any school district that reorganizes on or after July 1, 2007. 2. a. The separate weighting factor must allow the reorganized school district t…

1. In order to be counted for the purpose of calculating per student payments, as provided for by this chapter, a high school student must be enrolled in at least four high school units. The units may include career and technical education courses offered in accordance with chapt…

1. Before a weight may be assigned under section 15.1-27-03.1 for a student enrolled in a high school summer course, the superintendent of public instruction shall verify that the course meets the requirements of section 15.1-21-16. 2. Before a weight may be assigned under sectio…

1. Any school district claiming state aid payments under this chapter shall provide to the superintendent of public instruction, at the time and in the manner requested by the superintendent, all information necessary for the processing of the claim. 2. If the superintendent of p…

1. If a school district's imputed taxable valuation per student is greater than one hundred fifty percent of the state average imputed taxable valuation per student, the superintendent of public instruction shall: a. Determine the difference between the district's imputed taxable…

If moneys in the state general fund are insufficient to make all payments to school districts, the superintendent of public instruction shall prorate the payments on a fractional basis. As additional moneys come into the fund, payments may be made until the school districts recei…

1. The board of each school district shall establish the length of a period, day, and week in accordance with the requirements of section 15.1-06-04. If a public school or school district is closed or provides less than a full day of instruction, the public school or school distr…

The state treasurer shall apportion payments from the federal government to this state under the provisions of 43 United States Code 315i (the Taylor Grazing Act) among the counties in the state in the proportion that the number of acres [hectares] of Taylor Grazing Act land in e…

1. Any money paid to the state by the secretary of the treasury of the United States under the provisions of an Act of Congress entitled "An Act to promote the mining of coal, phosphate, oil, oil shale, gas, and sodium on the public domain" [Pub. L. 66-146; 41 Stat. 437; 30 U.S.C…

1. The superintendent of public instruction shall determine transportation average daily membership equivalents for eligible school districts providing schoolbus transportation in contract schoolbuses, or in district-owned and operated schoolbuses, and for eligible school distric…

The superintendent of public instruction may not transfer any portion of the funds appropriated for state aid payments to the youth correctional center to support the provision of educational services by the youth correctional center.

1. Average daily membership is calculated at the conclusion of the school year by adding the total number of hours that each student in a given grade, school, or school district is in attendance at the school's physical plant during a school calendar and the total number of hours…

If a school district offers fewer grade levels than the district offered the previous school year, the superintendent of public instruction shall determine the district's average daily membership using only those grade levels that the district offers during the current school yea…

For purposes of determining state aid, the superintendent of public instruction shall amend the average daily membership of any school district that enrolls students who attended a dissolved school district during the school year prior to the dissolution.

1. a. Except as provided in subdivision b, beginning July 1, 2027, the superintendent of public instruction shall determine the amount of payments due to a school district and shall subtract from that the amount by which the unobligated general fund balance of the district on the…

Beginning with the 2014-15 school year, the board of each school district shall provide to each full-time teacher, under contract for a period of nine months, a minimum salary level for the contract period equal to at least twenty-seven thousand five hundred dollars.