Parliament Act no. 10 of 15 April 2003 on independent schools and teaching in the home, etc.

Modified repeals, hovedlov replaces information

Modified by
Parliament Act no. 18 of 3 December 2012 amending the Act on free elementary schools and teaching in the home, etc. (Grant Calculation, consequential amendments regarding. Municipal laying of PPR and special education, etc.)
Act No. 16 of 20 november 2006 amending Rule Act on independent schools and home schooling etc. (Possibility of investment loans for the construction of school buildings)


Chapter 1.

Education, etc.


§ 1. Free primary schools provide education in the 1st-10th grade level commensurate with what is usually required in public schools.

§ 2. Teaching at the 10th grade can prepare for the then-current final evaluations and tests in public schools.
Subsection. 2. For students who are academically and personally prepared to switch to a secondary education after 9 years of schooling, the education in 9th grade prepare for the then-current final evaluations and tests in public schools.
Subsection. 3. The Cabinet may grant the head of a free elementary right to organize the then-current final evaluations and tests in elementary school after the at any time existing rules that apply to public school.

§ 3. Teaching languages ​​in a free primary school is Greenlandic and Danish.
Subsection. 2. As part of students' language learning English can also be the language of instruction.
Subsection. 3. The Cabinet may in special cases approve the language of instruction is other than Greenlandic and Danish.

§ 4. A free primary education should be in accordance with rules set by the Government of Greenland:
1) Provide special education and other special educational assistance to students whose disabilities are of such a nature or extent that their need for special assistance can not covered within mainstream education.
2) Provide additional education to students who have temporarily difficult to follow the normal teaching in one or more subjects.
3) Provide training of students for a long time due to illness or for reasons of health or welfare can not be taught in school.
Subsection. 2. The Cabinet must provide unpaid pedagogical and psychological counseling for students who have his schooling in a free elementary school.

§ 5. The school year begins on August 1 and includes at least 200 school days.


Chapter 2.

Free elementary schools, management and teachers




§ 6. Free elementary schools that receive grants under this Act shall be independent institutions. Statutory Provisions on board and economic conditions to be approved by the Greenland government. The Greenland government may lay down rules on content of the statutes.
Subsection. 2. An independent basic school must in his work as an independent institution to be independent, and the school's funds may only be school and the educational undertaking.
Subsection. 3. The overall management of a free elementary education is handled by a board, which is responsible for the school's operation.
Subsection. 4. For the board, the manager and other employees at a free elementary school, the provisions of Chapter 2 of disqualification and Chapter 8 on confidentiality, the Act on case management in public administration.
Subsection. 5. Free elementary schools with boarding must be the owner of the school's individual buildings or most of it and can not own buildings with others. This does not preclude that there may rent a small part of the school buildings.
Subsection. 6. A free primary education must constitute a geographical and building entity. The Cabinet may in special cases waive this requirement.

§ 7. For each free elementary hired a manager who has the daily administrative and educational management of the school and is responsible for the school's activities.
Subsection. 2. A free primary school head shall ensure that students attend classes, and may require that parents give the school written information on the reason for a student's absence from teaching. If a student does not meet the education requirement to report school principal it to the municipal council in the municipality where the school is his business.
Subsection. 3. The appointment of an education-only student in the school year, the school principal to notify the local council.

§ 8. Wage and employment for managers and trainers must be at the same level as similar positions in the public sector. The agreements on wage and employment must be submitted to the Cabinet and the local council for information.

§ 9. Establishment of a free primary school should be notified of the Cabinet and the local council.
Subsection. 2. Creating a free primary education must be made with effect from academic year.

Subsection. 3. The Cabinet may lay down rules on the procedure for the establishment of a free primary school that wants a subsidy under this Act, including review periods and review the deposit.




Chapter 3.

Supervision


§ 10. Supervision of a free primary school regular business, including the fact that the school provides an education that is comparable to what is usually required in elementary school, the responsibility of the parents of children in the free elementary school, parents circuit. Parents Circle take the decisions on the way in which supervision must be exercised.
Subsection. 2. Parents Circle either opt for 4 years and a person or persons to supervise the students receive an education that is comparable to what is usually required in elementary school, or request the municipal council to carry out this monitoring. The supervisors must not belong to the parent circle be a member of the Board, be employed at the free primary or be married or closely related to these people. The free basic school must inform the local authority about who is chosen to oversee.
Subsection. 3. If parents circuit not choose a supervisor is overseen by the local council.
Subsection. 4. The supervisor shall make an annual statement to parents circuit and the free primary school board about students' standpoint. Where, the EDPS standpoint is not commensurate with what is commonly achieved in elementary school, set a deadline of at least 3 months to improve conditions. The EDPS still teaching deficient, reported it after consulting the parents circuit and the free primary school board to the municipal council.
Subsection. 5. The local authority may in special cases decide on additional supervision of a free elementary school.
Subsection. 6. The free primary education should be to supervision by paragraph. 2, 3 and 5 at the request provide the information of importance to the Authority's performance.

§ 11. A free primary school with boarding can ask the local council that this supervises the boarding school.

§ 12. If the local council that a free primary school activities not in accordance with this Act, the rules or agreements established or entered into under county law, the municipal council may issue an order to the free primary education to change the business.
Subsection. 2. The municipal council can in the individual free elementary obtain information about the school's activities.




Chapter 4.

Grant conditions and use of grants




§ 13. For independent schools, satisfying the requirements of this Act, providing communi-council establishes an operating grant, see. The relevant provisions in Chapter 5.
Subsection. 2. Free primary schools can accumulate subsidies for use in the following fiscal year and loans for school and teaching activities.

§ 14. A free basic education must at least provide education within the 1st-7th grade.
Subsection. 2. The Cabinet may grant exemptions from paragraph. 1.
Subsection. 3. A free primary school receiving a grant under this Act may include a diet Department.

§ 15. A free primary school must be managed so that they become the greatest possible benefit for the school. The Greenland government may regulate the placement of liquid funds that are not necessary to the free primary school operations.




Chapter 5.

Forms of grants and derivation


§ 16. The municipal council provides free primary school where the student is enrolled, an annual operating grant per. pupils aged 6-17 years. The subsidy per. student represent the Greenland Home Rule block grants to one city school student in Greenland municipal primary school.
Subsection. 2. The Cabinet shall reimburse the costs of special education and other special educational assistance, as a student had to refer to in connection with the pedagogical and psychological counseling see. § 4, paragraph. 2. Reimbursement shall be granted under the same rules as reimbursement to municipalities for pupils in primary schools.

§ 17. The operating subsidy is calculated based on the number of admitted students per. 5 September of the year preceding the year for which the grant is sought for (grant year).
Subsection. 2. The operating subsidy for the period from 1 August to 31 December of the grant year adjusted based on the number of enrolled students per. September 5 during the grant year.
Subsection. 3. For newly created independent schools calculated the operating grant in the year based on the number of enrolled students per. September 5 during the grant year. The grant is calculated as 5/12 of the total annual subsidy.
Subsection. 4. For newly independent schools calculated one on account operating grants, referred. § 20 paragraph. 3, in the year based on the number of enrolled students per. June 1 for the grant year.


§ 18. The municipal council may in addition to the operating grant, upon application providing free primary schools grants to reduce the user charges, travel expenses and subsidies for boarding facilities.
Subsection. 2. The local council can provide free primary schools grants and loans for the construction of school buildings and similar investment costs.




Chapter 6.



Grant Application, -udbetaling and accounting


§ 19. Free primary schools must annually to the municipal council a list of all students, as per. September 5 are enrolled in school. This inventory must be the local council no later than October 1st. The list shall contain information about students' names, phone numbers and whether students are completing compulsory education. If the list is not the local council no later than October 1, forfeit entitlement to grants for the coming year of funding.
Subsection. 2. The municipal returns a certified list of students per. September 5 registered municipal population register and who are not enrolled school, another free primary or taught in the home. If the free primary education has no inventory no later than 1 November of the year before the grant year, added the free primary school statement of the number of enrolled students for the calculation of operating subsidy for the coming year.

§ 20. Application for an operating grant by this Act shall be the municipal council no later than October 1 of the year before the grant year. The local authority may, when circumstances so warrant, extend the time limit.
Subsection. 2. The municipal council shall notify each free primary education, which has sought the grant, the amount of the aid granted. The notification shall be the free primary school no later than 1 November of the year before the grant year.
Subsection. 3. Newly created independent schools can apply for an operating grant on account of 2/12 of the annual subsidy. Application for this must be the local council no later than 1 June of the grant year.
Subsection. 4. The municipal council shall notify each newly created free primary school the size of the assistance on account operational aid. The notification shall be the free primary school no later than 1 July of the grant year.
Subsection. 5. The Greenland government may lay down rules on the grant application.

§ 21. The operating subsidy paid in four equal installments on 1 January, 1 April, 1 July and 1 October for the grant year.
Subsection. 2. The regulation referred. § 17 paragraph. 2, paid together with an operating rate of 1 January of the year after the grant year.
Subsection. 3. For newly created independent schools paid on account operating grant before 1 July of the grant year. Too much or too little paid operating regulated on the basis of the number of enrolled students per. September 5 during the grant year in connection with the payment of the rate on 1 January of the year after the grant year.
Subsection. 4. The local authority may for independent schools that do not follow the provisions of this Act, the rules or agreements established or concluded in accordance with the law, or municipal orders, retain subsidies, cancel subsidies whole or in part or request repayment in whole or partial. The local authority may also require repayment of subsidies if the basis for calculation of the subsidy or grant calculation is incorrect.
Subsection. 5. overpaid grants can be offset against future subsidies.
Subsection. 6. The Cabinet may lay down rules for the payment of subsidies.

§ 22. Free basic schools is the calendar year. The accounts are established and reviewed by the general rules of good auditing practice.
Subsection. 2. The accounts shall be audited by a certified public accountant or a registered auditor and the local authority no later than June 1 of the year following the grant year. The local authority may grant exemptions from the deadline.


Chapter 7.

Free elementary schools that do not receive operating grants


§ 23. The provisions of § 6, § 8 and § 9 paragraph. 3, Chapter 4-6, except § 18 and § 19 paragraph. 1 and 2, the first section does not apply to independent schools that do not receive operating grants by this Act.




Chapter 8.



Teaching in the home, etc.


§ 24. If parents want to provide education for their children in the study age, they shall inform in writing to the municipal council in the children's home district before classes begin.
Subsection. 2. The notification shall contain information about which children to attend classes where teaching takes place, and who will teach the children.

§ 25. The municipal council in the child's place of residence supervises the training, the child gets home, etc.

Subsection. 2. The local council may up every year conduct examinations in one or more of primary school subjects to ensure that teaching is commensurate with what is usually required in public schools. Anyone who has been teaching the kids, head samples in agreement with the local council.
Subsection. 3. If it is deemed that the lessons have not come up with what is usually required in public school, shall inform the municipal council parents that there will be a new test after 3 months and that children should be taught in a school whose teaching is still not commensurate with what is usually required in public schools.

§ 26. Teaching in the home, etc. can prepare for the then-current final evaluations and tests in public schools. The Cabinet may set rules.


Chapter 9.

The parents' rights and duties




§ 27. Parental rights and duties under this Act and by regulations, including statutes issued in pursuance of this Act rights and obligations of the person who has custody of the child.
Subsection. 2. Apart from the issue of school start and duration of the school may consider the person actually taking care of the child, to be authorized to act on behalf of parental responsibility.


Chapter 10.

Entry into force




§ 28 Landsting Act shall come into force on 1 June 2003.




Greenland, April 15, 2003




Hans Enoksen
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Arkalo Abelsen