Section 15.1-27-16 - [Effective 7/1/2026] Per student payments - Administrative cost-sharing - Cooperating districts and special education units1. If any school district receiving payments under this chapter cooperates with another school district for the joint provision of educational services under a plan approved by the superintendent of public instruction, the superintendent of public instruction shall, notwithstanding the provisions of section 15.1-27-03.2, create and assign a separate weighting factor that allows the cooperating districts to receive, for a period of four years, a payment rate equivalent to that which each district would have received had the cooperative plan not taken effect. The superintendent of public instruction shall compute the separate weighting factor to four decimal places and that weighting factor is effective for the duration of the cooperative plan.2. A school district that is cooperating with another school district under a cooperative plan approved by the superintendent of public instruction, and which has taxable property located in the same city as the other school district under the cooperative plan, may not be required as part of the cooperative plan to:a. Provide unduplicated grade level services; orb. Share administrative personnel.Amended by S.L. 2023, ch. 195 (SB 2380),§ 1, eff. 7/1/2023.Amended by S.L. 2021, ch. 13 (HB 1013),§ 25, eff. 7/1/2024.Amended by S.L. 2021, ch. 13 (HB 1013),§ 22, eff. 7/1/2021.Amended by S.L. 2019 , ch. 169( HB 1125 ), § 1, eff. 4/11/2019.This section is set out more than once due to postponed, multiple, or conflicting amendments.