§ 15.1-27-16 — Per student payments - Cooperating districts

1. If any school district receiving payments under this chapter cooperates with another
school district for the joint provision of educational services under a plan approved by
the superintendent of public instruction, the superintendent of public instruction shall,
notwithstanding the provisions of section 15.1-27-03.2, create and assign a separate
weighting factor that allows the cooperating districts to receive, for a period of four
years, a payment rate equivalent to that which each district would have received had
the cooperative plan not taken effect. The superintendent of public instruction shall
compute the separate weighting factor to four decimal places and that weighting factor
is effective for the duration of the cooperative plan.

2. A school district that is cooperating with another school district under a cooperative
plan approved by the superintendent of public instruction, and which has taxable
property located in the same city as the other school district under the cooperative
plan, may not be required as part of the cooperative plan to:
a. Provide unduplicated grade level services; or
b. Share administrative personnel.