2006 Minnesota Statutes

125A.62 DUTIES OF THE BOARD OF THE MINNESOTA STATE ACADEMIES.
    Subdivision 1. Governance. The board of the Minnesota State Academies shall govern the
State Academy for the Deaf and the State Academy for the Blind. The board must promote
academic standards based on high expectation and an assessment system to measure academic
performance toward the achievement of those standards. The board must focus on the academies'
needs as a whole and not prefer one school over the other. The board of the Minnesota State
Academies shall consist of nine persons. The members of the board shall be appointed by the
governor with the advice and consent of the senate. One member must be from the seven-county
metropolitan area, one member must be from greater Minnesota, and one member may be
appointed at-large. The board must be composed of:
(1) one present or former superintendent of an independent school district;
(2) one present or former special education director;
(3) the commissioner of education or the commissioner's designee;
(4) one member of the blind community;
(5) one member of the deaf community;
(6) two members of the general public with business, administrative, or financial expertise;
(7) one nonvoting, unpaid ex officio member appointed by the site council for the State
Academy for the Deaf; and
(8) one nonvoting, unpaid ex officio member appointed by the site council for the State
Academy for the Blind.
    Subd. 2. Terms; compensation; and other. The membership terms, compensation, removal
of members, and filling of vacancies shall be as provided for in section 15.0575. Notwithstanding
section 15.0575, a member may serve not more than two consecutive four-year terms.
    Subd. 3. Meetings. All meetings of the board shall be as provided in chapter 13D and
must be held in Faribault.
    Subd. 4. Most beneficial, least restrictive. The board must do what is necessary to provide
the most beneficial and least restrictive program of education for each pupil at the academies who
is disabled by visual disability or deafness.
    Subd. 5. Planning, evaluation, and reporting. To the extent required in school districts, the
board must establish a process for the academies to include parent and community input in the
planning, evaluation, and reporting of curriculum and pupil achievement.
    Subd. 6. Site councils. The board must establish, and appoint members to, a site council at
each academy. The site councils shall exercise power and authority granted by the board. The
board must appoint to each site council the exclusive representative's employee designee from
each exclusive representative at the academies. The site councils may make a recommendation
to the governor regarding board appointments no more than 30 days after receiving the list of
applicants from the governor.
    Subd. 7. Trustee of academies' property. The board is the trustee of the academies'
property. Securities and money, including income from the property, must be deposited in the
state treasury according to section 16A.275. The deposits are subject to the order of the board.
    Subd. 8. Grants. The board, through the chief administrators of the academies, may
apply for all competitive grants administered by agencies of the state and other government
or nongovernment sources. Application may not be made for grants over which the board has
discretion.
History: 1975 c 271 s 6; 1976 c 222 s 27; 1976 c 271 s 67; 1977 c 447 art 3 s 10,11; 1977 c
449 s 13; 1978 c 764 s 95,96; 1979 c 334 art 3 s 17; 1982 c 424 s 130; 1982 c 560 s 46; 1985 c
240 s 3; 1987 c 384 art 1 s 55; art 2 s 1; 1987 c 398 art 3 s 28,29; 1989 c 220 s 2; 1991 c 265 art
11 s 11; 1Sp1995 c 3 art 11 s 5-8; 1Sp1997 c 4 art 10 s 1; 1998 c 398 art 5 s 14-21; 1999 c 241 art
2 s 20; 2003 c 130 s 12; 2005 c 56 s 1; 2006 c 263 art 7 s 4