2000 Minnesota Statutes

     124D.11 Revenue for a results-oriented charter school. 

    Subdivision 1.    General education revenue.  (a) 
 General education revenue must be paid to a charter school as 
 though it were a district.  The general education revenue for 
 each adjusted marginal cost pupil unit is the state average 
 general education revenue per pupil unit, plus the referendum 
 equalization aid allowance in the pupil's district of residence, 
 minus an amount equal to the product of the formula allowance 
 according to section 126C.10, subdivision 2, times .0485, 
 calculated without basic skills revenue, transportation sparsity 
 revenue, and the transportation portion of the transition 
 revenue adjustment, plus basic skills revenue as though the 
 school were a school district. 

    (b) Notwithstanding paragraph (a), for charter schools in 
 the first year of operation, general education revenue shall be 
 computed using the number of adjusted pupil units in the current 
 fiscal year.  

    Subd. 2.    Transportation revenue.  Transportation 
 revenue must be paid to a charter school that provides 
 transportation services according to section 124D.10, 
 subdivision 16, according to this subdivision.  Transportation 
 aid shall equal transportation revenue.  

    In addition to the revenue under subdivision 1, a charter 
 school providing transportation services must receive general 
 education aid for each pupil unit equal to the sum of an amount 
 equal to the product of the formula allowance according to 
 section 126C.10, subdivision 2, times .0485, plus the 
 transportation sparsity allowance for the school district in 
 which the charter school is located, plus the transportation 
 transition allowance for the district in which the charter 
 school is located.  

    Subd. 3.    Use of total operating capital revenue.  
 Notwithstanding section 126C.10, subdivision 14, a charter 
 school may use total operating capital revenue for any purpose 
 related to the school. 

    Subd. 4.    Building lease aid.  When a charter school 
 finds it economically advantageous to rent or lease a building 
 or land for any instructional purposes and it determines that 
 the total operating capital revenue under section 126C.10, 
 subdivision 13, is insufficient for this purpose, it may apply 
 to the commissioner for building lease aid for this purpose.  
 Criteria for aid approval and revenue uses shall be as defined 
 for the building lease levy in section 126C.40, subdivision 1, 
 paragraphs (a) and (b).  The amount of building lease aid per 
 pupil unit served for a charter school for any year shall not 
 exceed the lesser of (a) 90 percent of the approved cost or (b) 
 the product of the pupil units served for the current school 
 year times $1,500. 

    Subd. 5.    Special education aid.  Except as provided 
 in subdivision 2, special education aid must be paid to a 
 charter school according to section 125A.76, as though it were a 
 school district.  The charter school may charge tuition to the 
 district of residence as provided in section 125A.11.  The 
 charter school shall allocate its special education levy 
 equalization revenue to the resident districts of the pupils 
 attending the charter school.  The districts of residence shall 
 levy as though they were participating in a cooperative, as 
 provided in section 125A.77, subdivision 3. 

    Subd. 6.    Other aid, grants, revenue.  (a) A charter 
 school is eligible to receive other aids, grants, and revenue 
 according to chapters 120A to 129C, as though it were a district.

    (b) Notwithstanding paragraph (a), a charter school may not 
 receive aid, a grant, or revenue if a levy is required to obtain 
 the money, except as otherwise provided in this section.  

    (c) Federal aid received by the state must be paid to the 
 school, if it qualifies for the aid as though it were a school 
 district. 

    (d) A charter school may receive money from any source for 
 capital facilities needs.  In the year-end report to the 
 commissioner of children, families, and learning, the charter 
 school shall report the total amount of funds received from 
 grants and other outside sources. 

    (e) Notwithstanding paragraph (a) or (b), a charter school 
 may apply for a grant to receive the aid portion of integration 
 revenue under section 124D.86, subdivision 3, for enrolled 
 students who are residents of a district that is eligible for 
 integration revenue.  The commissioner shall determine grant 
 recipients and may adopt application guidelines.  The grants 
 must be competitively determined and must demonstrate that 
 enrolling pupils in the charter school contributes to 
 desegregation or integration purposes as determined by the 
 commissioner.  If the charter school has elected not to provide 
 transportation under section 124D.10, subdivision 16, the aid 
 shall be reduced by the amount per pupil unit specified for the 
 district where the charter school is located under section 
 123B.92, subdivision 8. 

    Subd. 7.    Use of state money.  Money received from the 
 state may not be used to purchase land or buildings.  The school 
 may own land and buildings if obtained through nonstate sources. 

    Subd. 8.    Start-up costs.  During the first two years 
 of a charter school's operation, the charter school is eligible 
 for aid to pay for start-up costs and additional operating costs.
 Start-up cost aid equals the greater of: 

    (1) $50,000 per charter school; or 

    (2) $500 times the charter school's pupil units served for 
 that year. 

    Subd. 9.    Payment of aids to charter schools.  (a) 
 Notwithstanding section 127A.45, subdivision 3, aid payments for 
 the current fiscal year to a charter school not in its first 
 year of operation shall be of an equal amount on each of the 23 
 payment dates.  A charter school in its first year of operation 
 shall receive, on its first payment date, ten percent of its 
 cumulative amount guaranteed for the year and 22 payments of an 
 equal amount thereafter the sum of which shall be 90 percent of 
 the cumulative amount guaranteed. 

    (b) Notwithstanding section 127A.45, subdivision 3, and 
 paragraph (a), 90 percent of the start-up cost aid under 
 subdivision 8 shall be paid within 45 days after the first day 
 of student attendance for that school year. 

    HIST: 1991 c 265 art 9 s 43; 1993 c 224 art 9 s 31; 1994 c 647 
 art 3 s 11; art 9 s 10; 1Sp1995 c 3 art 8 s 4; 1996 c 412 art 7 
 s 5-8; 1997 c 7 art 1 s 52; 1Sp1997 c 4 art 2 s 4; art 5 s 
 13-15; 1998 c 397 art 2 s 89-92,164; art 11 s 3; 1998 c 398 art 
 1 s 10-13; art 5 s 55; 1999 c 241 art 1 s 2; art 5 s 12-14; 2000 
 c 254 s 17; 2000 c 489 art 2 s 4; art 6 s 24