2004 Minnesota Statutes

     124D.518 Adult basic education aid definitions. 

    Subdivision 1.    Applicability.  The definitions in 
 this section apply to sections 124D.52 to 124D.531.  

    Subd. 2.    Adult basic education consortium.  "Adult 
 basic education consortium" means a voluntary association of 
 school districts, public agencies, or nonprofit organizations 
 that work together to provide coordinated adult basic education 
 services in a designated geographic area, and that act as a 
 fiscal entity providing adult basic education services. 

    Subd. 3.    Contact hours.  (a) "Contact hours" means 
 the number of hours during which a student was engaged in 
 learning activities provided by an approved adult education 
 program.  Contact hours excludes homework but includes 
 interactive distance learning.  The commissioner may only 
 reallocate contact hours among programs to adjust for changes in 
 program membership between the first prior program year and the 
 current program year based on the actual contact hours reported 
 for the first prior program year. 

    (b) For revenue beginning in fiscal year 2002, contact 
 hours for a provider of adult basic education services funded in 
 fiscal year 2000, but not eligible for basic population aid in 
 fiscal year 2001, is computed by multiplying the provider's 
 contact hours by 1.03. 

    (c) For aid in fiscal year 2001, contact hours in fiscal 
 year 2000 equals the number of full-time equivalent learners 
 times the contact hours.  A level one full-time equivalent 
 learner is equal to 240 contact hours and a level two full-time 
 learner is equal to 408 contact hours. 

    Subd. 4.    First prior program year.  "First prior 
 program year" means the period from May 1 of the second prior 
 fiscal year through April 30 of the first prior fiscal year. 

    Subd. 5.    Unreimbursed expenses.  "Unreimbursed 
 expenses" means allowable adult basic education expenses of a 
 program, in the current program year, that are not covered by 
 payments from federal or private for-profit sources.  

    HIST: 2000 c 489 art 1 s 10; 1Sp2001 c 3 art 3 s 1