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124.248 Revenue for a results-oriented charter school.

Subdivision 1. General education revenue. General education revenue shall be paid to a charter school as though it were a school district. The general education revenue for each pupil unit is the state average general education revenue per pupil unit minus $170, calculated without compensatory revenue, transportation sparsity revenue, and the transportation portion of the transition revenue adjustment, plus compensatory revenue as though the school were a school district.

Subd. 1a. Transportation revenue. Transportation revenue shall be paid to a charter school that provides transportation services according to section 120.064, subdivision 15, according to this subdivision. Transportation aid shall equal transportation revenue.

(a) In addition to the revenue under subdivision 1, a charter school providing transportation services shall receive general education aid for each pupil unit equal to the sum of $170, plus the transportation sparsity allowance for the school district in which the charter school is located, plus the transportation transition allowance for the school district in which the charter school is located.

(b) For the first two years that a charter school is providing transportation services, the special programs transportation revenue equals the charter school's actual cost in the current school year for transportation services for children with disabilities under section 124.223, subdivisions 4, 5, 7, and 8. For the third year of transportation services and later fiscal years, the special programs transportation revenue shall be computed according to section 124.225, subdivision 14.

Subd. 2. Use of total operating capital revenue. Notwithstanding section 124A.22, subdivision 11, a charter school may use total operating capital revenue for any purpose related to the school.

Subd. 2a. Building lease aid. When a charter school finds it economically advantageous to rent or lease a building or land for any instructional purposes and it determines that the total operating capital revenue under section 124A.22, subdivision 10, is insufficient for this purpose, it may apply to the commissioner for building lease aid for this purpose. Criteria for aid approval and revenue uses shall be as defined for the building lease levy in section 124.91, subdivision 1. The amount of building lease aid per pupil unit for a charter school for any year shall not exceed the lesser of (a) 80 percent of the approved cost or (b) the product of the actual pupil units for the current school year times the sum of the state average debt redemption fund revenue plus capital revenue, according to section 124.91, per actual pupil unit for the current fiscal year.

Subd. 3. Special education aid. Except as provided in subdivision 1a, paragraph (b), special education aid shall be paid to a charter school according to section 124.3201, as though it were a school district. The charter school may charge tuition to the district of residence as provided in section 120.17, subdivision 4. The charter school shall allocate its special education levy equalization revenue to the resident districts of the pupils attending the charter school. The districts of residence shall levy as though they were participating in a cooperative, as provided in section 124.321, subdivision 3.

Subd. 4. Other aid, grants, revenue. (a) A charter school is eligible to receive other aids, grants, and revenue according to chapters 120 to 129, as though it were a school district except that, notwithstanding section 124.195, subdivision 3, the payments shall be of an equal amount on each of the 23 payment dates unless a charter school is in its first year of operation in which case it shall receive on its first payment date ten percent of its cumulative amount guaranteed for the year and 22 payments of an equal amount thereafter the sum of which shall be 90 percent of the cumulative amount guaranteed. However, it may not receive aid, a grant, or revenue if a levy is required to obtain the money, except as otherwise provided in this section. Federal aid received by the state must be paid to the school, if it qualifies for the aid as though it were a school district.

(b) A charter school may receive money from any source for capital facilities needs. In the year-end report to the state board of education, the charter school shall report the total amount of funds received from grants and other outside sources.

Subd. 5. Use of state money. Money received from the state may not be used to purchase land or buildings. The school may own land and buildings if obtained through nonstate sources.

Subd. 6. Start-up costs. During the first two years of a charter school's operation, the charter school is eligible for aid to pay for start-up costs and additional operating costs. Start-up cost aid equals the greater of:

(1) $50,000 per charter school; or

(2) $500 times the charter school's pupil units for that year.

HIST: 1991 c 265 art 9 s 43; 1993 c 224 art 9 s 31; 1994 c 647 art 3 s 11; art 9 s 10; 1Sp1995 c 3 art 8 s 4; 1996 c 412 art 7 s 5-8; 1997 c 7 art 1 s 52; 1Sp1997 c 4 art 2 s 4; art 5 s 13-15

* NOTE: The amendment to subdivision 3 by Laws 1997, First *Special Session chapter 4, article 2, section 4, is effective *for fiscal year 1999. Laws 1997, First Special Session chapter *4, article 2, section 53.

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