1997 Minnesota Statutes

     128A.022 Powers of state board of education. 

    Subdivision 1.    Personnel.  The state board of 
 education may employ central administrative staff members and 
 other personnel necessary to provide and support programs and 
 services at each academy.  

    Subd. 2.    Get help from department.  The state board 
 may require the department of children, families, and learning 
 to provide program leadership, program monitoring, and technical 
 assistance at the academies.  

    Subd. 3.    Unclassified positions.  The state board may 
 place any position other than residential academies 
 administrator in the unclassified service.  The position must 
 meet the criteria in section 43A.08, subdivision 1a.  

    Subd. 4.    Residential and building maintenance services. 
  The state board may enter into agreements with public or 
 private agencies or institutions to provide residential and 
 building maintenance services.  The state board must first 
 decide that contracting for the services is more efficient and 
 less expensive than not contracting for them.  

    Subd. 5. Repealed, 1992 c 499 art 3 s 18; art 11 s 11 

    Subd. 6.    Student teachers and professional trainees.  
 (a) The state board may enter into agreements with teacher 
 preparation institutions for student teachers to get practical 
 experience at the academies.  A licensed teacher must provide 
 appropriate supervision of each student teacher.  

    (b) The state board may enter into agreements with 
 accredited higher education institutions for certain student 
 trainees to get practical experience at the academies.  The 
 students must be preparing themselves in a professional field 
 that provides special services to children with a disability in 
 school programs.  To be a student trainee in a field, a person 
 must have completed at least two years of an approved program in 
 the field.  A person who is licensed or registered in the field 
 must provide appropriate supervision of each student trainee.  

    Subd. 7. Repealed, 1992 c 499 art 3 s 18; art 11 s 11 

    HIST: 1989 c 220 s 2; 1991 c 265 art 3 s 38; 1Sp1995 c 3 art 
 11 s 10,11; art 16 s 13