SHPA’s Authorizer is Friends of Education, to whom we are accountable until 2029. Under Friends’ supervision, we have maintained organizational stability, fiscal responsibility, and academic success. Friends requires that SHPA submit an Annual Report detailing the school’s evaluation of meeting state reporting requirements.

Friends also engages in site visits that include general school and classroom observations, interviews with the Directors, Business Manager, teachers, students, parents, and Board members. These visits also facilitate Friends’review of SHPA’s general compliance with the Minnesota Open Meetings Law, Public Employment Relations Act, teacher licensing requirements, student immunization compliance, the Minnesota Human Rights Act, Minnesota Pupil Fair Dismissal Act, Minnesota Public Schools Fee Law, special education requirements, financial controls, and open enrollment processes and our compliance with local, State and Federal laws.

Friends’ oversight of financial affairs is accomplished primarily through a review of financial statements and an annual independent audit. SHPA remains a responsible steward of its finances as demonstrated by its careful oversight and its clean audits resulting in finance awards from the Minnesota Department of Education.

Friends of Education
11100 Wayzata Blvd, Suite 800
Minnetonka, MN 55305
info@improveK-12education.org