Nonpublic Pupil Aids Reimbursement Program 2024-2025

Forms:
Student Report for Aids to Nonpublic Students - ED-01650-37- due by Tuesday, October 1, 2024
Nonpublic Aids Request for Reimbursement - due by Wednesday, April 30, 2025
Program Information:
The Student Report for Aids to Nonpublic Students (ED-01650-37) is a form which homeschooling families can utilize to receive reimbursement on qualified materials as well as pupil health services and secondary pupil guidance counseling services through the district. To participate, Form ED-01650-37 must be completed and received at the district by Tuesday, October 1. 

 Authorized Rates of Entitlement for 2024-25: 

• Textbooks, Standardized Tests and Individual Instructional Materials - $120.97 per pupil 

• Pupil Health Services - $81.07* per pupil *This is reimbursed to the public school district, not the nonpublic/homeschool 

• Secondary Pupil Guidance and Counseling Services - $339.53* per pupil *This is reimbursed to the public school district, not the nonpublic/homeschool 

Rates may be adjusted by MDE on or about October 15 when the actual appropriation and program participation figures are known. 

To be eligible for reimbursement, the educational materials must be secular, neutral, nonideological, and not capable of religious use. The materials must be primarily for an individual pupil to use for educational purposes in a particular class. All homeschool students are required to take a nationally normed achievement test. The cost of this test is eligible for reimbursement through the aid program. 

Examples of materials that are eligible for reimbursement include textbooks, workbooks, DVDs, educational games, music books, sheet music/ learning kits, flashcards, and prepared instructional computer software programs. “Textbook” includes a teacher's edition, teacher's guide, or other materials that accompany a textbook that a pupil uses when the teacher's edition, teacher's guide, or other teacher materials are packaged physically or electronically with textbooks for student use. 

Examples of materials that are NOT eligible for reimbursement are instructional supplies such as writing paper, notebooks, construction paper, scissors, pens, pencils, crayons and markers. 

We do not reimburse for used books as they do not fit the requirement of being available to public students in adequate quantities and the condition and value of the used books is unknown. 
 

Requesting a Reimbursement:
**Form ED-01650-37 (information above) MUST have been completed and received at the district by October 1, 2024 to be eligible for a reimbursement.
Complete the Nonpublic Aids Request for Reimbursement Form and return to the district with original receipts dated between July 1, 2024 and April 30, 2025. The form and receipts must be received by Wednesday, April 30, 2025 in the district office for a reimbursement to be issued.

Submit Forms To:

Kim Shores
Milaca Public Schools
500 Hwy 23 West
Milaca, MN 56353

kim.shores@milaca.k12.mn.us

Minnesota State Guidelines (Statute 123B.41):

“Subd. 2.Textbook. (a) "Textbook" means any book or book substitute, including electronic books as well as other printed materials delivered electronically, which a pupil uses as a text or text substitute in a particular class or program in the school regularly attended and a copy of which is expected to be available for the individual use of each pupil in this class or program. Textbook includes an online book with an annual subscription cost.

(b) For purposes of calculating the annual nonpublic pupil aid entitlement for textbooks, the term shall be limited to books, workbooks, or manuals, whether bound or in loose-leaf form, as well as electronic books and other printed materials delivered electronically, intended for use as a principal source of study material for a given class or a group of students.

(c) For purposes of sections 123B.40 to 123B.48, the terms "textbook" and "software or other educational technology" include only such secular, neutral, and nonideological materials as are available, used by, or of benefit to Minnesota public school pupils.”