SF 2190

as introduced - 84th Legislature (2005 - 2006) Posted on 12/15/2009 12:00am

A bill for an act
relating to education finance; creating an alternative
secondary sparsity calculation; amending Minnesota
Statutes, section 126C.10, subdivision 6.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

Section 1.

Minnesota Statutes 2004, section 126C.10,
subdivision 6, is amended to read:

Subd. 6.

Definitions.

The definitions in this
subdivision apply only to subdivisions 7 and 8.

(a) "High school" means a secondary school that has pupils
enrolled in at least the 10th, 11th, and 12th grades. If there
is no secondary school in the district that has pupils enrolled
in at least the 10th, 11th, and 12th grades, and the school is
at least 19 miles from the next nearest school, the commissioner
must designate one school in the district as a high school for
the purposes of this section.

(b) "Secondary average daily membership" means, for a
district that has only one high school, the average daily
membership of pupils served in grades 7 through 12. For a
district that has more than one high school, "secondary average
daily membership" for each high school means the product of the
average daily membership of pupils served in grades 7 through 12
in the high school, times the ratio of six to the number of
grades in the high school.

(c) "Attendance area" means the total surface area of the
district, in square miles, divided by the number of high schools
in the district. For a district that does not operate a high
school and is less than 19 miles from the nearest operating high
school, the attendance area equals zero.

(d) "Isolation index" for a high school means the square
root of 55 percent of the attendance area plus the distance in
miles, according to the usually traveled routes, between the
high school and the nearest high school.

new text begin (1) new text end For a district in which there is located land defined
in section 84A.01, 84A.20, or 84A.31, the distance in miles is
the sum of:

deleted text begin (1) deleted text end new text begin (i) new text end the square root of one-half of the attendance area;
and

deleted text begin (2) deleted text end new text begin (ii) new text end the distance from the border of the district to
the nearest high school.

new text begin (2) For a district that opened a new school building in
calendar year 2002 and where the school district with the next
nearest high school intends to open a new high school in
calendar year 2005, the distance in miles equals the greater of
the miles between the high school and the next nearest current
high school or the miles between the high school and the
previous location of the next nearest high school.
new text end

(e) "Qualifying high school" means a high school that has
an isolation index greater than 23 and that has secondary
average daily membership of less than 400.

(f) "Qualifying elementary school" means an elementary
school that is located 19 miles or more from the nearest
elementary school or from the nearest elementary school within
the district and, in either case, has an elementary average
daily membership of an average of 20 or fewer per grade.

(g) "Elementary average daily membership" means, for a
district that has only one elementary school, the average daily
membership of pupils served in kindergarten through grade 6.
For a district that has more than one elementary school,
"average daily membership" for each school means the average
daily membership of pupils served in kindergarten through grade
6 multiplied by the ratio of seven to the number of grades in
the elementary school.

new text begin EFFECTIVE DATE. new text end

new text begin This section is effective for revenue for
fiscal year 2006.
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