2006 Minnesota Statutes

123B.42 TEXTBOOKS; INDIVIDUAL INSTRUCTION OR COOPERATIVE LEARNING
MATERIAL; STANDARD TESTS.
    Subdivision 1. Providing education materials and tests. The commissioner of education
shall promulgate rules under the provisions of chapter 14 requiring that in each school year,
based upon formal requests by or on behalf of nonpublic school pupils in a nonpublic school,
the local districts or intermediary service areas must purchase or otherwise acquire textbooks,
individualized instructional or cooperative learning materials, and standardized tests and
loan or provide them for use by children enrolled in that nonpublic school. These textbooks,
individualized instructional or cooperative learning materials, and standardized tests must be
loaned or provided free to the children for the school year for which requested. The loan or
provision of the textbooks, individualized instructional or cooperative learning materials, and
standardized tests shall be subject to rules prescribed by the commissioner of education.
    Subd. 1a. Curriculum; electronic components. A school district that provides curriculum
to resident students that has both physical and electronic components must make the electronic
component accessible to a resident student in a home school in compliance with sections 120A.22
and 120A.24 at the request of the student or the student's parent or guardian, provided that the
district does not incur more than an incidental cost as a result of providing access electronically.
    Subd. 2. Title to education materials and tests. The title to textbooks, individualized
instructional or cooperative learning materials, and standardized testing materials must remain
in the servicing school district or intermediary service area, and possession or custody may be
granted or charged to administrators of the nonpublic school attended by the nonpublic school
pupil or pupils to whom the textbooks, individualized instructional or cooperative learning
materials, or standardized tests are loaned or provided.
    Subd. 3. Cost; limitation. (a) The cost per pupil of the textbooks, individualized
instructional or cooperative learning materials, and standardized tests provided for in this section
for each school year must not exceed the statewide average expenditure per pupil, adjusted
pursuant to clause (b), by the Minnesota public elementary and secondary schools for textbooks,
individualized instructional materials and standardized tests as computed and established by the
department by February 1 of the preceding school year from the most recent public school year
data then available.
(b) The cost computed in clause (a) shall be increased by an inflation adjustment equal to the
percent of increase in the formula allowance, pursuant to section 126C.10, subdivision 2, from
the second preceding school year to the current school year.
(c) The commissioner shall allot to the districts or intermediary service areas the total
cost for each school year of providing or loaning the textbooks, individualized instructional or
cooperative learning materials, and standardized tests for the pupils in each nonpublic school. The
allotment shall not exceed the product of the statewide average expenditure per pupil, according
to clause (a), adjusted pursuant to clause (b), multiplied by the number of nonpublic school
pupils who make requests pursuant to this section and who are enrolled as of September 15
of the current school year.
History: 1975 c 396 s 3; 1978 c 733 s 14; 1980 c 609 art 4 s 3; 1982 c 424 s 130; 1982 c
642 s 10; 1983 c 314 art 1 s 22; art 6 s 9; 1988 c 486 s 18; 1Sp1995 c 3 art 16 s 13; 1996 c 412
art 8 s 5; 1998 c 397 art 7 s 11,164; art 11 s 3; 1998 c 398 art 5 s 55; 1Sp2001 c 5 art 2 s 1;
1Sp2001 c 6 art 1 s 8,55 subd 2; 2003 c 130 s 12; 1Sp2005 c 5 art 4 s 1