Reimbursement

Reimbursement on qualified materials as well as pupil health services and secondary pupil guidance counseling services from the district are also available for homeschool families. To utilize this program:

• Complete Form ED-01650-37 and return it to the district by October 1, 2024. If you are expecting reimbursement, do not check the nonparticipation boxes on this form.

• Complete the Request for Reimbursement Form, attach original receipts for materials dated between

  July 1, 2024 and April 30, 2025 and return to the district by April 30, 2025. See information below for what materials qualify or do not qualify for reimbursement.

Non-Public Aids

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 October 1st.

 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.

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.”

Additional Information

Additional home school information can be found on the MN Department of Education website at the links below:
Nonpublic and Homeschools
Compulsory Instruction Compliance

If you have any questions, please contact the District Office at