The secretary of the Department of Education shall compute state aid for special education for each school district according to the following calculations:

(1) Calculate the local need of a school district;

Terms Used In South Dakota Codified Laws 13-37-36.3

  • special education: means educational services and auxiliary services provided children in need of special education or special education and related services pursuant to the provisions of this chapter and shall include school instruction conforming as nearly as possible to the school program as defined in accreditation rules under duly qualified special education teachers to the extent that the child in need of special education or special education and related services is capable of profiting. See South Dakota Codified Laws 13-37-2

(2) State aid for special education is:

(a) Local need minus local effort, the difference multiplied by the effort factor; or

(b) Zero if the calculation in (a) is a negative number.

Source: SL 1999, ch 90, § 4; SL 2003, ch 272, § 63.

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