2000 Minnesota Statutes

     124D.128 Learning year program to provide instruction 
  throughout year. 

    Subdivision 1.    Program established.  A learning year 
 program provides instruction throughout the year.  A pupil may 
 participate in the program and accelerate attainment of grade 
 level requirements or graduation requirements.  A learning year 
 program may begin after the close of the regular school year in 
 June.  The program may be for students in one or more grade 
 levels from kindergarten through grade 12.  

    Students may participate in the program if they reside in:  

    (1) a district that has been designated a learning year 
 site under subdivision 2; 

    (2) a district that is a member of the same education 
 district as a site; or 

    (3) a district that participates in the same area learning 
 center program as a site.  

    Subd. 2.    Commissioner designation.  An area learning 
 center designated by the state must be a site.  To be 
 designated, a district or center must demonstrate to the 
 commissioner that it will: 

    (1) provide a program of instruction that permits pupils to 
 receive instruction throughout the entire year; and 

    (2) maintain a record system that, for purposes of section 
 126C.05, permits identification of membership attributable to 
 pupils participating in the program.  The record system and 
 identification must ensure that the program will not have the 
 effect of increasing the total number of pupil units 
 attributable to an individual pupil as a result of a learning 
 year program. 

    Subd. 3.    Student planning.  A district must inform 
 all pupils and their parents about the learning year program.  A 
 continual learning plan must be developed for each pupil with 
 the participation of the pupil, parent or guardian, teachers, 
 and other staff.  The plan must specify the learning experiences 
 that must occur each year and, for secondary students, for 
 graduation.  The plan may be modified to conform to district 
 schedule changes.  The district may not modify the plan if the 
 modification would result in delaying the student's time of 
 graduation.  

    Subd. 4. Repealed, 2000 c 254 s 51 

    Subd. 5.    Contracts.  A district may contract with a 
 licensed employee to provide services in a learning year program 
 that are in addition to the services provided according to the 
 master contract of employment for teachers or an equivalent 
 contract for licensed employees who are not teachers.  These 
 additional services and compensation, if any, for the services 
 must not become a part of the employee's continuing contract 
 rights under section 122A.40 or 122A.41. 

    Subd. 6.    Revenue computation and reporting.  Aid and 
 levy revenue computations must be based on the total number of 
 hours of education programs for pupils in average daily 
 membership for each fiscal year.  For purposes of section 
 126C.05, average daily membership shall be computed by dividing 
 the total number of hours of participation for the fiscal year 
 by the minimum number of hours for a year determined for the 
 appropriate grade level.  Hours of participation that occur 
 after the close of the regular instructional year and before 
 July 1 must be attributed to the following fiscal year.  Thirty 
 hours may be used for teacher workshops, staff development, or 
 parent-teacher conferences.  As part of each pilot program, the 
 department and each district must report and evaluate the 
 changes needed to adjust the dates of the fiscal year for aid 
 and levy computation and fiscal year reporting.  For revenue 
 computation purposes, the learning year program shall generate 
 revenue based on the formulas for the fiscal year in which the 
 services are provided. 

    State aid and levy revenue computation for the learning 
 year programs begins July 1, 1988, for fiscal year 1989. 

    Subd. 7.    Exemption.  To operate the pilot program, 
 the commissioner of children, families, and learning may exempt 
 the district from specific rules relating to student and 
 financial accounting, reporting, and revenue computation.  

    HIST: 1989 c 329 art 9 s 5; 1991 c 130 s 37; 1991 c 265 art 7 
 s 3; 1992 c 499 art 8 s 2; art 12 s 29; 1993 c 224 art 12 s 8; 
 1Sp1995 c 3 art 16 s 13; 1998 c 397 art 6 s 8-10,124; art 11 s 
 3; 1998 c 398 art 5 s 55; 2000 c 489 art 10 s 4