The secretary of the Department of Education shall compute state aid for special education for each school district according to the following calculations:

1. (1) Calculate the local need of a school district;

2. (2) State aid for special education is:

   1. (a) Local need minus local effort, the difference multiplied by the effort factor; or
   2. (b) Zero if the calculation in (a) is a negative number.

Source: SL 1999, ch 90 , § 4; SL 2003, ch 272 , § 63.