72-9503. Cooperative agreements; financial provisions; termination, changes.
72-9503
72-9503. Cooperative agreements; financial provisions; termination, changes.The boards of education of any two or more school districtsmay make and enter into agreements providing for cooperative operation andadministration of a program of bilingual education on a shared-cost basis. Any school district which is a party to such a cooperativeagreement may be designated the sponsoring district under such agreement. The agreement entered into shall provide for a separate fund of the sponsoringschool district, to which each contracting district shall pay the moneysdue from it under the agreement, and all such moneys received by the sponsoringdistrict shall be credited to such fund. The expenses of a sponsoring districtattributable to bilingual education shall be paid from such fund and paymentof such expenses shall not be operating expenses of the sponsoring district. Payments from the general fund of a contracting district to a sponsoringdistrict and transfers of money from the general fund of a sponsoring districtto the separate fund provided for hereunder shall be operatingexpenses. Any agreement entered into under authority of thissection shall be subject to change or termination by the legislature; andwithin the limitations provided by law, any such agreement may be changedor terminated by mutual agreement of the contracting school districts.
History: L. 1979, ch. 220, § 3; July 1.