1998 Minnesota Statutes

     125A.62 Duties of state board of education. 

    Subdivision 1.    Governance.  The board of the 
 Faribault academy shall govern the state academies for the deaf 
 and the state academy for the blind.  The board must promote 
 academic standards based on high expectation and an assessment 
 system to measure academic performance toward the achievement of 
 those standards.  The board must focus on the academies' needs 
 as a whole and not prefer one school over the other.  The board 
 of the Faribault academies shall consist of seven persons.  The 
 members of the board shall be appointed by the governor with the 
 advice and consent of the senate.  Three members must be from 
 the seven-county metropolitan area, three members must be from 
 greater Minnesota, and one member may be appointed at-large.  
 The board must be composed of: 

    (1) one superintendent of an independent school district; 

    (2) one special education director; 

    (3) the commissioner of children, families, and learning or 
 the commissioner's designee; 

    (4) one member of the blind community; 

    (5) one member of the deaf community; and 

    (6) two members of the general public with business or 
 financial expertise. 

    Subd. 2.    Terms; compensation; and other.  The 
 membership terms, compensation, removal of members, and filling 
 of vacancies shall be as provided for in section 15.0575.  A 
 member may serve not more than two consecutive terms. 

    Subd. 3.    Meetings.  All meetings of the board shall 
 be as provided in section 471.705 and must be held in Faribault. 

    Subd. 4.    Most beneficial, least restrictive.  The 
 board must do what is necessary to provide the most beneficial 
 and least restrictive program of education for each pupil at the 
 academies who is handicapped by visual disability or deafness.  

    Subd. 5.    Planning, evaluation, and reporting.  To the 
 extent required in school districts, the board must establish a 
 process for the academies to include parent and community input 
 in the planning, evaluation, and reporting of curriculum and 
 pupil achievement. 

    Subd. 6.    Site councils.  The board may establish, and 
 appoint members to, a site council at each academy.  The site 
 councils shall exercise power and authority granted by the 
 board.  The board must appoint to each site council the 
 exclusive representative's employee designee from each exclusive 
 representative at the academies. 

    Subd. 7.    Trustee of academies' property.  The board 
 is the trustee of the academies' property.  Securities and 
 money, including income from the property, must be deposited in 
 the state treasury according to section 16A.275.  The deposits 
 are subject to the order of the board.  

    Subd. 8.    Grants.  The board, through the chief 
 administrators of the academies, may apply for all competitive 
 grants administered by agencies of the state and other 
 government or nongovernment sources.  Application may not be 
 made for grants over which the board has discretion. 

    HIST: 1975 c 271 s 6; 1976 c 222 s 27; 1976 c 271 s 67; 1977 c 
 447 art 3 s 10,11; 1977 c 449 s 13; 1978 c 764 s 95,96; 1979 c 
 334 art 3 s 17; 1982 c 424 s 130; 1982 c 560 s 46; 1985 c 240 s 
 3; 1987 c 384 art 1 s 55; art 2 s 1; 1987 c 398 art 3 s 28,29; 
 1989 c 220 s 2; 1991 c 265 art 11 s 11; 1Sp1995 c 3 art 11 s 
 5-8; 1Sp1997 c 4 art 10 s 1; 1998 c 398 art 5 s 14-21 

*   NOTE:  The amendments to this section (formerly 128A.02), 
*by Laws 1998, chapter 398, article 5, sections 14 to 21, are 
*effective December 31, 1999.  Laws 1998, chapter 398, article 5, 
*section 57.