Subdivision 1. District requirements. The boards of two or more districts may, after consultation with the department, enter into an agreement providing for:
(1) discontinuance by all districts except one of at least the 10th, 11th, and 12th grades; and
(2) instruction of the pupils in the discontinued grades in one of the cooperating districts. Each district must continue to operate a school with at least three grades. Before entering into a final agreement, the boards must provide a copy of this agreement to the commissioner.
Subd. 2. Aid; transportation. (a) Each district must continue to count its resident pupils who are educated in a cooperating district as resident pupils in the calculation of pupil units for all purposes. The agreement must provide for tuition payments between or among the districts.
(b) Each district must continue to provide transportation and collect transportation aid for its resident pupils pursuant to sections 123B.88 and 123B.92. A district may provide some or all transportation to its resident pupils by contracting with a cooperating district. For purposes of section 123B.92, the commissioner may adjust the base cost per eligible pupil transported to reflect changes in costs resulting from the agreement.
Subd. 3. Negotiated plan for teachers whose positions are discontinued. The board and exclusive bargaining representative of the teachers in each district discontinuing grades may negotiate a plan to assign or employ in a cooperating district or to place on unrequested leave of absence all teachers whose positions are discontinued as a result of the agreement. The board and exclusive bargaining representative of the teachers in each district providing instruction to nonresident pupils may negotiate a plan to employ teachers from a cooperating district whose positions are discontinued as a result of the agreement. If plans are negotiated and if the boards determine the plans are compatible, the boards shall include the plans in their agreement.
Subd. 4. Combined teacher seniority list. If compatible plans are not negotiated before the March 1 preceding any year of the agreement, the cooperating districts shall be governed by this subdivision. Insofar as possible, teachers who have acquired continuing contract rights and whose positions are discontinued as a result of the agreement shall be employed by a cooperating district or assigned to teach in a cooperating district as exchange teachers pursuant to section 122A.54. If necessary, teachers whose positions are discontinued as a result of the agreement and who have acquired continuing contract rights shall be placed on unrequested leave of absence in fields in which they are licensed in the inverse order in which they were employed by a cooperating district, according to a combined seniority list of teachers in the cooperating districts. For the purpose of establishing a combined seniority list, each district must be considered to have started school each year on the same date.
Subd. 5. Notice; informational meeting. Prior to entering into an agreement, the board shall consult with the community at an informational meeting. The board must publish notice of the meeting in the official newspaper of the district and may send written notice of the meeting to parents of pupils who would be affected.
Subd. 6. Meeting location. Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, boards that have an agreement may hold a valid joint meeting at any location that would be permissible for one of the boards participating in the meeting. A board that has an agreement may hold a meeting in any district that is a party to the agreement. The board shall comply with chapter 13D and any other law applicable to a meeting of a board.
1979 c 211 s 4; 1980 c 609 art 6 s 14; 1Sp1985 c 12 art 7 s 12; 1987 c 384 art 2 s 27; 1987 c 398 art 7 s 19; 1989 c 329 art 6 s 18; 1991 c 265 art 9 s 32; 1Sp1995 c 3 art 16 s 13; 1998 c 397 art 5 s 70-75,104; art 11 s 3
Structure Minnesota Statutes
Chapters 120 - 129C — Education Code: Prekindergarten - Grade 12
Chapter 123A — School Districts; Forms For Organizing
Section 123A.01 — Definitions.
Section 123A.05 — State-approved Alternative Program Organization.
Section 123A.06 — State-approved Alternative Programs And Services.
Section 123A.07 — Resource Center For Other Programs.
Section 123A.08 — State-approved Alternative Program Funding.
Section 123A.09 — Designating And Approving A Center.
Section 123A.12 — Agreement Regarding Administrative Services.
Section 123A.15 — Establishing Education Districts.
Section 123A.16 — Education District Board.
Section 123A.17 — Powers And Duties Of An Education District Board.
Section 123A.18 — Education District Agreement.
Section 123A.19 — Teaching Positions.
Section 123A.21 — Service Cooperatives.
Section 123A.215 — Innovative Technology Cooperative.
Section 123A.22 — Cooperative Centers For Vocational Education.
Section 123A.23 — Regional Management Information Centers.
Section 123A.24 — Withdrawing From Cooperative Unit; Appealing Denial Of Membership.
Section 123A.245 — Cooperative Units; Eligibility For Grants.
Section 123A.25 — Cooperative Unit; Insurance Pools.
Section 123A.26 — Cooperative Units; Prohibited Aid And Levies.
Section 123A.27 — Reserved Revenue For District Cooperation.
Section 123A.30 — Agreements For Secondary Education.
Section 123A.32 — Interdistrict Cooperation.
Section 123A.33 — Employees Of Cooperative Districts Upon Dissolution Or Withdrawal.
Section 123A.35 — Cooperation And Combination.
Section 123A.36 — Cooperation And Combination Plan.
Section 123A.37 — Commissioner And Voter Approval.
Section 123A.38 — Effective Date Of Combination.
Section 123A.39 — Employees Of Cooperating And Combining Districts.
Section 123A.40 — County Auditor Plat.
Section 123A.41 — Levies For Districts At Time Of Combination.
Section 123A.43 — Reports To Department Of Education.
Section 123A.441 — Policy And Purpose.
Section 123A.442 — Approval Authority; Application Forms.
Section 123A.443 — Grant Application Process.
Section 123A.444 — Levy For Severance Pay.
Section 123A.445 — Transportation.
Section 123A.45 — Detachment And Annexation Of Land.
Section 123A.455 — Realigning Split Residential Parcels.
Section 123A.46 — Dissolution And Attachment.
Section 123A.48 — Consolidation.
Section 123A.482 — Joint Powers Cooperative Facility.
Section 123A.485 — Consolidation Transition Revenue.
Section 123A.488 — Consolidation; Instruction By Nonresidential District.
Section 123A.55 — Classes, Number.
Section 123A.56 — Assignment Of Identification Numbers.
Section 123A.58 — Common District To Independent District.
Section 123A.60 — Remaining Districts, Action Of County Board; Election.
Section 123A.61 — Private Schools In Nonoperating Districts.
Section 123A.62 — Border Districts; Continued Operation; Franconia.
Section 123A.64 — Duty To Maintain Elementary And Secondary Schools.
Section 123A.65 — Phase Out Of Dissolved District.
Section 123A.66 — Procedure For Attachment To Organized Districts.
Section 123A.67 — Allocation Of Assets And Liabilities; Levy.
Section 123A.68 — Officers And Teachers, Transitional Provisions.
Section 123A.69 — Special School Districts, Application; Minneapolis And South St. Paul.
Section 123A.70 — Private Schools; Prinsburg.
Section 123A.72 — Severability.
Section 123A.73 — Levy Limitations Of Reorganized Districts.
Section 123A.74 — Obligations Upon District Reorganization.
Section 123A.75 — Employees Of Reorganized Districts.
Section 123A.76 — Expenses Of Transition.
Section 123A.77 — Surplus County School Tax Funds; Distribution.