2007 Minnesota Statutes

119A.52 DISTRIBUTION OF APPROPRIATION.
    (a) The commissioner of education must distribute money appropriated for that purpose to
federally designated Head Start programs to expand services and to serve additional low-income
children. Migrant and Indian reservation programs must be initially allocated money based
on the programs' share of federal funds. The remaining money must be initially allocated to
the remaining local agencies based equally on the agencies' share of federal funds and on the
proportion of eligible children in the agencies' service area who are not currently being served. A
Head Start program must be funded at a per child rate equal to its contracted, federally funded
base level at the start of the fiscal year. In allocating funds under this paragraph, the commissioner
of education must assure that each Head Start program in existence in 1993 is allocated no less
funding in any fiscal year than was allocated to that program in fiscal year 1993. Before paying
money to the programs, the commissioner must notify each program of its initial allocation, how
the money must be used, and the number of low-income children to be served with the allocation
based upon the federally funded per child rate. Each program must present a plan under section
119A.535. For any program that cannot utilize its full allocation at the beginning of the fiscal year,
the commissioner must reduce the allocation proportionately. Money available after the initial
allocations are reduced must be redistributed to eligible programs.
    (b) The commissioner must develop procedures to make payments to programs based upon
the number of children reported to be enrolled during the required time period of program
operations. Enrollment is defined by federal Head Start regulations. The procedures must
include a reporting schedule, corrective action plan requirements, and financial consequences to
be imposed on programs that do not meet full enrollment after the period of corrective action.
Programs reporting chronic underenrollment, as defined by the commissioner, will have their
subsequent program year allocation reduced proportionately. Funds made available by prorating
payments and allocations to programs with reported underenrollment will be made available to
the extent funds exist to fully enrolled Head Start programs through a form and manner prescribed
by the department.
History: 1989 c 282 art 2 s 173; 1991 c 292 art 3 s 34; 1993 c 369 s 89; 1994 c 483 s 1;
1Sp1995 c 3 art 16 s 13; 1997 c 162 art 1 s 11; 1Sp2003 c 9 art 7 s 1; 2006 c 263 art 6 s 2;
2007 c 146 art 9 s 1