1997 Minnesota Statutes

     124.492 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 school 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 124.493 to 124.495 is to use the credit of 
 the state, to a limited degree, to provide grants to cooperating 
 groups of school 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