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124C.46 Center programs and services.

Subdivision 1. Program focus. The programs and services of a center must focus on academic and learning skills, applied learning opportunities, trade and vocational skills, work-based learning opportunities, work experience, youth service to the community, and transition services. Applied learning, work-based learning, and service learning may best be developed in collaboration with a local education and transitions partnership. In addition to offering programs, the center shall coordinate the use of other available educational services, social services, health services, and post-secondary institutions in the community and services area.

Subd. 2. People to be served. A center shall provide programs for secondary pupils and adults. A center may also provide programs and services for elementary and secondary pupils who are not attending the center to assist them in being successful in school. Pupils eligible to be served are those age five to adults 21 and older who qualify under the graduation incentives program in section 126.22, subdivision 2.

Subd. 3. Rules exemption. Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, the center programs must be available throughout the entire year. Pupils in a center may receive instruction for more than or less than the daily number of hours required by the rules of the state board of education. However, a pupil must receive instruction each year for at least the total number of instructional hours required by statutes and rules. A center may petition the state board under Minnesota Rules, part 3500.1000, for exemption from other rules.

Subd. 4. Graduation. Upon successful completion of the center program, a pupil is entitled to receive a high school diploma. The pupil may elect to receive a diploma from either the district of residence or the district in which the center is located.

HIST: 1987 c 398 art 8 s 35; 1988 c 718 art 6 s 15; 1993 c 146 art 5 s 16; 1Sp1995 c 3 art 4 s 21; 1Sp1997 c 4 art 3 s 17; art 6 s 14

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