1997 Minnesota Statutes

     123.933 Textbooks, individual instruction or cooperative 
  learning material, standard tests. 

    Subdivision 1.    Provision.  The state board of 
 education shall promulgate rules under the provisions of chapter 
 14 requiring that in each school year, based upon formal 
 requests by or on behalf of nonpublic school pupils in a 
 nonpublic school, the local districts or intermediary service 
 areas shall purchase or otherwise acquire textbooks, 
 individualized instructional or cooperative learning materials, 
 and standardized tests and loan or provide them for use by 
 children enrolled in that nonpublic school.  These textbooks, 
 individualized instructional or cooperative learning materials, 
 and standardized tests shall be loaned or provided free to the 
 children for the school year for which requested.  The loan or 
 provision of the textbooks, individualized instructional or 
 cooperative learning materials, and standardized tests shall be 
 subject to rules prescribed by the state board of education. 

    Subd. 2.    Title.  The title to textbooks, 
 individualized instructional or cooperative learning materials, 
 and standardized testing materials shall remain in the servicing 
 school district or intermediary service area, and possession or 
 custody may be granted or charged to administrators of the 
 nonpublic school attended by the nonpublic school pupil or 
 pupils to whom the textbooks, individualized instructional or 
 cooperative learning materials, or standardized tests are loaned 
 or provided. 

    Subd. 3.    Cost; limitation.  (a) The cost per pupil of 
 the textbooks, individualized instructional or cooperative 
 learning materials, and standardized tests provided for in this 
 section for each school year shall not exceed the statewide 
 average expenditure per pupil, adjusted pursuant to clause (b), 
 by the Minnesota public elementary and secondary schools for 
 textbooks, individualized instructional materials and 
 standardized tests as computed and established by the department 
 of children, families, and learning by March 1 of the preceding 
 school year from the most recent public school year data then 
 available. 

    (b) The cost computed in clause (a) shall be increased by 
 an inflation adjustment equal to the percent of increase in the 
 formula allowance, pursuant to section 124A.22, subdivision 2, 
 from the second preceding school year to the current school year.

    (c) The commissioner shall allot to the school districts or 
 intermediary service areas the total cost for each school year 
 of providing or loaning the textbooks, individualized 
 instructional or cooperative learning materials, and 
 standardized tests for the pupils in each nonpublic school.  The 
 allotment shall not exceed the product of the statewide average 
 expenditure per pupil, according to clause (a), adjusted 
 pursuant to clause (b), multiplied by the number of nonpublic 
 school pupils who make requests pursuant to this section and who 
 are enrolled as of September 15 of the current school year. 

    HIST: 1975 c 396 s 3; 1978 c 733 s 14; 1980 c 609 art 4 s 3; 
 1982 c 424 s 130; 1982 c 642 s 10; 1983 c 314 art 1 s 22; art 6 
 s 9; 1988 c 486 s 18; 1Sp1995 c 3 art 16 s 13; 1996 c 412 art 8 
 s 5