2005 Minnesota Statutes

     123A.441 Policy and purpose. 

    Because of the rates of decline in school-aged population, 
 population shifts and economic changes that the state has 
 experienced in recent years and anticipates in future years, and 
 because in some instances local districts have not, and will not 
 be able to provide the required construction funds through local 
 property taxes, the purpose of the cooperative secondary 
 facilities grant program is to provide an incentive to encourage 
 cooperation in making available to all secondary students those 
 educational programs, services and facilities that are most 
 efficiently and effectively provided by a cooperative effort of 
 several school districts.  The policy and purpose of sections 
 123A.442 to 123A.446 is to use the credit of the state, to a 
 limited degree, to provide grants to cooperating groups of 
 districts to improve and expand the educational opportunities 
 and facilities available to their secondary students. 

    HIST: 1987 c 400 s 34,59; 1989 c 300 art 2 s 13; 1998 c 397 
 art 7 s 66,164; art 11 s 3; 1999 c 241 art 4 s 29; 2000 c 464 
 art 3 s 9; 2000 c 489 art 5 s 19,27