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 the district of residence, excluding a pupil for whom an adjustment to special education aid is calculated according to section 127A.47, subdivision 7, paragraphs (b) to (d), special education aid paid to the resident district must be reduced by an amount equal to (1) the actual cost of providing special instruction and services to the pupil, including a proportionate amount for special transportation, plus (2) the amount of general education revenue, excluding local optional revenue, plus local optional aid and referendum equalization aid attributable to that pupil, calculated using the resident district's average general education revenue and referendum equalization aid per adjusted pupil unit excluding basic skills revenue, elementary sparsity revenue and secondary sparsity revenue, minus (3) the amount of special education aid for children with a disability under section 125A.76 received on behalf of that child, excluding cross subsidy reduction aid under section 125A.76, subdivision 2e, minus (4) if the pupil receives special instruction and services outside the regular classroom for more than 60 percent of the school day, the amount of general education revenue and referendum equalization aid, excluding portions attributable to district and school administration, district support services, operations and maintenance, capital expenditures, and pupil transportation, attributable to that pupil for the portion of time the pupil receives special instruction and services outside of the regular classroom, calculated using the resident district's average general education revenue and referendum equalization aid per adjusted pupil unit excluding basic skills revenue, elementary sparsity revenue and secondary sparsity revenue and the serving district's basic skills revenue, elementary sparsity revenue and secondary sparsity revenue per adjusted pupil unit. Notwithstanding clauses (1) and (4), for pupils served by a cooperative unit without a fiscal agent school district, the general education revenue and referendum equalization aid attributable to a pupil must be calculated using the resident district's average general education revenue and referendum equalization aid excluding compensatory revenue, elementary sparsity revenue, and secondary sparsity revenue. Special education aid paid to the district or cooperative providing special instruction and services for the pupil must be increased by the amount of the reduction in the aid paid to the resident district. If the resident district's special education aid is insufficient to make the full adjustment, the remaining adjustment shall be made to other state aid due to the district.
(b) Notwithstanding paragraph (a), when a charter school receiving special education aid under section 124E.21, subdivision 3, provides special instruction and services for a pupil with a disability as defined in section 125A.02, excluding a pupil for whom an adjustment to special education aid is calculated according to section 127A.47, subdivision 7, paragraphs (b) to (e), special education aid paid to the resident district must be reduced by an amount equal to that calculated under paragraph (a) as if the charter school received aid under section 124E.21, subdivision 1. Notwithstanding paragraph (a), special education aid paid to the charter school providing special instruction and services for the pupil must not be increased by the amount of the reduction in the aid paid to the resident district.
(c) Notwithstanding paragraph (a) and section 127A.47, subdivision 7, paragraphs (b) to (d):
(1) an intermediate district or a special education cooperative may recover unreimbursed costs of serving pupils with a disability, including building lease, debt service, and indirect costs necessary for the general operation of the organization, by billing membership fees and nonmember access fees to the resident district;
(2) a charter school where more than 30 percent of enrolled students receive special education and related services, a site approved under section 125A.515, an intermediate district, a site constructed according to Laws 1992, chapter 558, section 7, subdivision 7, to meet the educational needs of court-placed adolescents, or a special education cooperative may apply to the commissioner for authority to charge the resident district an additional amount to recover any remaining unreimbursed costs of serving pupils with a disability;
(3) the billing under clause (1) or application under clause (2) must include a description of the costs and the calculations used to determine the unreimbursed portion to be charged to the resident district. Amounts approved by the commissioner under clause (2) must be included in the aid adjustments under paragraph (a), or section 127A.47, subdivision 7, paragraphs (b) to (d), as applicable.
(d) For purposes of this subdivision and section 127A.47, subdivision 7, paragraph (b), "general education revenue and referendum equalization aid" means the sum of the general education revenue according to section 126C.10, subdivision 1, excluding the local optional levy according to section 126C.10, subdivision 2e, paragraph (c), plus the referendum equalization aid according to section 126C.17, subdivision 7.
Subd. 2. Nonresident transportation. When a district provides instruction and services in a day program outside the district of residence, the district of residence is responsible for providing transportation. When a district provides instruction and services requiring board and lodging or placement in a residential program outside the district of residence, the nonresident district in which the child is placed is responsible for providing transportation. Transportation costs shall be paid by the district responsible for providing transportation and the state shall pay transportation aid to that district.
Subd. 3. Agreement between districts to provide special instruction and services. For the purposes of this section, any school district may enter into an agreement, upon mutually agreed-upon terms and conditions, to provide special instruction and services for children with a disability. In that event, one of the participating units may employ and contract with necessary qualified personnel to offer services in the several districts. Each participating unit must reimburse the employing unit a proportionate amount of the actual cost of providing the special instruction and services, less the amount of state special education aid.
Ex1959 c 71 art 1 s 17; 1961 c 559 s 2; 1961 c 690 s 1; 1965 c 241 s 1-3; 1967 c 872 s 1; 1969 c 981 s 2-5; 1971 c 689 s 1-3; 1973 c 683 s 1,2; 1975 c 162 s 41; 1975 c 321 s 2; 1975 c 432 s 8-10; 1976 c 211 s 1-6; 1976 c 271 s 13-18; 1977 c 447 art 3 s 1-4; 1977 c 449 s 12; 1978 c 733 s 1; 1978 c 764 s 3-5; 1978 c 793 s 61; 1979 c 334 art 2 s 1,2; art 3 s 2,3; 1980 c 509 s 30; 1981 c 358 art 1 s 1; art 3 s 2-7; 1982 c 424 s 28,29,130; 1982 c 548 art 3 s 1-3; 1983 c 247 s 55; 1983 c 258 s 13; 1983 c 314 art 1 s 22; art 3 s 1; 1984 c 463 art 3 s 1; 1984 c 654 art 5 s 58; 1Sp1985 c 12 art 3 s 2-8; 1986 c 444; 1987 c 384 art 2 s 24; 1987 c 398 art 3 s 2-14; 1988 c 486 s 2-5; 1988 c 629 s 24; 1988 c 718 art 3 s 1; art 6 s 2; 1989 c 209 art 2 s 1; 1989 c 329 art 3 s 1-3; 1991 c 265 art 3 s 1,2,38; art 11 s 1; 1991 c 292 art 6 s 58 subd 2; 1992 c 499 art 3 s 1-7; art 11 s 1; 1993 c 224 art 3 s 1-9; art 14 s 3; 1994 c 483 s 1; 1994 c 647 art 3 s 2-8,34; 1Sp1995 c 3 art 3 s 1-3; art 16 s 13; 1996 c 412 art 2 s 1,2; art 3 s 1-3; 1998 c 397 art 2 s 29,164; art 11 s 3; 1Sp2001 c 6 art 3 s 9; 1Sp2005 c 5 art 3 s 7; 2006 c 263 art 3 s 1; 2007 c 146 art 3 s 4; 2009 c 96 art 1 s 8; 2013 c 116 art 5 s 5; 2014 c 312 art 17 s 2; 1Sp2015 c 3 art 4 s 10; art 5 s 16; 2016 c 158 art 1 s 45; 2016 c 189 art 29 s 9; 1Sp2017 c 5 art 4 s 3; 1Sp2019 c 11 art 4 s 4
Structure Minnesota Statutes
Chapters 120 - 129C — Education Code: Prekindergarten - Grade 12
Chapter 125A — Special Education And Special Programs
Section 125A.01 — Definitions.
Section 125A.02 — Child With A Disability Defined.
Section 125A.023 — State Agency Coordination Responsibilities.
Section 125A.027 — Local Agency Coordination Responsibilities.
Section 125A.03 — Special Instruction For Children With A Disability.
Section 125A.04 — High School Diploma.
Section 125A.06 — Blind Persons' Literacy Rights.
Section 125A.08 — Individualized Education Programs.
Section 125A.083 — Student Information Systems; Transferring Records.
Section 125A.091 — Alternative Dispute Resolution And Due Process Hearings.
Section 125A.094 — Restrictive Procedures For Children With Disabilities.
Section 125A.0941 — Definitions.
Section 125A.0942 — Standards For Restrictive Procedures.
Section 125A.11 — Special Instructions For Nonresident Children.
Section 125A.12 — Attendance In Another District.
Section 125A.125 — Report On Homeless Children Served.
Section 125A.13 — School Of Parents' Choice.
Section 125A.14 — Extended School Year.
Section 125A.15 — Placement In Another District; Responsibility.
Section 125A.155 — Special Education Reciprocity; Commissioner Duties.
Section 125A.17 — Legal Residence Of A Child With A Disability Placed In A Foster Facility.
Section 125A.18 — Special Instruction; Nonpublic Schools.
Section 125A.19 — Nonresident Education; Billing.
Section 125A.20 — Transportation Aid Agreements.
Section 125A.21 — Third-party Payment.
Section 125A.22 — Community Transition Interagency Committee.
Section 125A.23 — Agency Access To Nonpublic Data.
Section 125A.24 — Parent Advisory Councils.
Section 125A.25 — Legislative Commitment To Conciliation.
Section 125A.259 — Citation; Interagency Early Childhood Intervention System.
Section 125A.27 — Definitions.
Section 125A.28 — State Interagency Coordinating Council.
Section 125A.29 — Responsibilities Of County Boards And School Boards.
Section 125A.30 — Interagency Early Intervention Committees.
Section 125A.31 — Local Primary Agency.
Section 125A.32 — Individualized Family Service Plan (ifsp).
Section 125A.33 — Service Coordination.
Section 125A.34 — Early Intervention Respite Services.
Section 125A.35 — Early Intervention Service Dollars.
Section 125A.36 — Payment For Services.
Section 125A.37 — Payor Of Last Resort.
Section 125A.38 — Maintenance Of Effort.
Section 125A.39 — Local Interagency Agreements.
Section 125A.40 — Third-party Payment.
Section 125A.41 — Coordinating Health Insurance Benefits.
Section 125A.42 — Procedural Safeguards; Parent And Child Rights.
Section 125A.43 — Mediation Procedure.
Section 125A.44 — Complaint Procedure.
Section 125A.45 — Interagency Dispute Procedure.
Section 125A.46 — Due Process Hearings.
Section 125A.48 — State Interagency Agreement.
Section 125A.50 — Alternative Delivery Of Specialized Instructional Services.
Section 125A.51 — Placement Of Children Without Disabilities; Education And Transportation.
Section 125A.515 — Placement Of Students; Approval Of Education Program.
Section 125A.53 — Director Of A Special Education Cooperative.
Section 125A.55 — Accommodating Students With Disabilities.
Section 125A.56 — Alternate Instruction Required Before Assessment Referral.
Section 125A.58 — Purchasing Guidelines.
Section 125A.59 — Interagency Agreement To Purchase Used Assistive Technology Devices.
Section 125A.60 — Purchase Agreement; Price Formula.
Section 125A.61 — Location And Status.
Section 125A.62 — Duties Of The Board Of The Minnesota State Academies.
Section 125A.63 — Resources; Deaf Or Hard-of-hearing And Blind Or Visually Impaired.
Section 125A.64 — Powers Of Board Of The Minnesota State Academies.
Section 125A.65 — Attendance At Academies For The Deaf And Blind.
Section 125A.66 — Obligations Of The Academies.
Section 125A.67 — Staff Of The Academies.
Section 125A.68 — State Adopted Procedures.
Section 125A.69 — Admission Standards.
Section 125A.70 — Expense Of Pupils.
Section 125A.71 — Deposit And Appropriation Of Rents And Fees Of Academies.
Section 125A.72 — Student Activities Account.
Section 125A.73 — Duties Of State Departments.
Section 125A.74 — Medical Assistance Payments To School Districts.
Section 125A.744 — Statewide Data Management System To Maximize Medical Assistance Reimbursement.
Section 125A.75 — Special Education Programs; Approval; Aid Payments; Travel Aid; Litigation Costs.
Section 125A.76 — Special Education Aid.