The per pupil amounts are $206 per pupil unit for Duluth, $445 per pupil unit for St. Paul, $480 per pupil for Minneapolis, and the lesser of $92 or a district’s actual costs for any other district that implements a desegregation program or is a member of a multidistrict integration collaborative and would not otherwise qualify.

A district which qualifies for $92 per pupil but has a protected student (minority students as defined in Minnesota Rules) enrollment of more than 15% of its student population qualifies for $129 per pupil or the district’s actual costs, instead of the $92 per pupil. Integration revenue must follow students to their district of attendance if the enrollment contributes to desegregation or integration purposes.

Integration revenue is part state aid, part local levy.

Additional Resources

January 2006 - Racial Transformation and the Changing Nature of Segregation - The changing racial composition of schools in the U.S. requires that we think about desegregation more broadly. What are needed are policies that are not limited to getting “minority” students into white schools but focus on integrating students from isolation in high poverty black and Latino schools to middle class white, Asian and multiracial schools, The Civil Rights Project at Harvard University, page 38. (Learn more about desegregation at NCLB History.)

November 2005 - School District Integration Revenue, Minnesota Office of the Legislative Auditor.