45th legislature - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - first session, 2001

RELATING TO CHARTER SCHOOLS; PROVIDING FOR A MAXIMUM NUMBER OF CHARTER SCHOOLS BY SCHOOL DISTRICT SIZE.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO:

Section 1. Section 22-8B-11 NMSA 1978 (being Laws 1999, Chapter 281, Section 11) is amended to read:

"22-8B-11. CHARTER SCHOOLS--MAXIMUM NUMBER ESTABLISHED.--

A. Local school boards shall authorize the approval of both conversion and start-up charter schools within their school districts.

B. No more than fifteen start-up schools and five conversion schools may be established per year statewide; [The number of] provided that charter school slots remaining in that year shall be transferred to succeeding years [up to a maximum of] so that no more than seventy-five start-up schools and twenty-five conversion schools may be established in any five-year period. The [state board] department of education shall [promptly] notify the local school board of each school district when the limits set forth in this section have been reached.

C. The number of approved start-up and conversion charter schools established per school district shall be limited in any three-year period as follows:

(1) school districts with an enrollment of five thousand or fewer students shall have no more than one charter school per district and not more than one hundred students per charter school;

(2) school districts with an enrollment between five thousand one and ten thousand students shall have no more than two charter schools per district and not more than two hundred students per charter school;

(3) school districts with an enrollment between ten thousand one and fifteen thousand students shall have no more than five charter schools per district and not more than three hundred students per charter school; and

(4) school districts with an enrollment greater than fifteen thousand students shall have no more than seven charter schools per district and not more than four hundred students per charter school."